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Sin, the Plague of Plagues
Sin, the plague of plagues, or, Sinful sin the worst of evils a treatise of sins trial and arraignment, wherein sin is accused for being, proved to be, and condemned for being exceeding sinful : and that 1. as against God, his nature, attributes, works, will, law, image, people, glory and existence, 2. as against man, his good and welfare of body and soul, in this life, and that to come : with the use and improvement to be made of this doctrine, that men may not be damned, but saved, &c. : being the substance of many sermons preached many years ago in Southwark / by Ralph Venning ...Sin, the plague of plagues, or, Sinful sin the worst of evils a treatise of sins tryal and arraignment, wherein sin is accused for being, proved to be, and condemned for being exceeding sinful : and that 1. as against God, his nature, attributes, works, will, law, image, people, glory and existence, 2. as against man, his good and welfare of body and soul, in this life, and that to come : with the use and improvement to be made of this doctrine, that men may not be damned, but saved, &c. : being the substance of many sermons preached many years ago in Southwark / by Ralph Venning ...
London: printed for John Hancock, 1669
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2 1We shall take into consideration the quantity and quality of those torments of hell and damnation.
- 1The quantity and quality of hell torments.
1 They will be exceeding great and terrible. 2 They will be universal. 3 Without intermission.
1 1They will be exceeding great and terrible, such as will make the stoutest hearts to quake and tremble: If the writing of Mene, Mene, Tekel, &c. made a change in Belshazzars countenance, ⟨p. 85⟩and trouble in his thoughts, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another, Dan. 5.6. what a commotion and heart-quake will the day of Gods wrath and vengeance produce? See an instance in type, at least, of this kind of speech and thing, Rev. 6.15.-17. where not only bondmen (persons of little and puny souls) but great and mighty men, chief Captains and Kings of the earth (persons of great souls that have made the earth to tremble) shall hide themselves in Dens and Rocks, and say to the Mountains fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sits on the Throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand! For bond-men to be faint-hearted and fly, is no great wonder; but for men of might and valour to run away and hide, that's strange! I, but 'tis from wrath, though but of a Lamb; What will they do then when he shall rise up, and roar like the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah? 'Tis the day of wrath, which is the terrible day of the Lord; 'tis the day of vengeance, which is implacable; for God who is (now) hearing prayer, will not (then) spare for their crying, no though they cry Lord, Lord. God always acts like himself, like a God; when he shows mercy, 'tis like the God of all grace, who is rich in mercy, and loves with a great love; so when he executes wrath and vengeance, he makes bare his arm, and strikes like a God: Who knows the power of his anger? none but damned ones. The sense of it here, the receiving or fearful reception of judgment