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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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SIN, THE PLAGUE of PLAGUES; OR Sinful Sin the worst of Evils.
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SIN, THE PLAGUE of PLAGUES; OR Sinful Sin the worst of Evils.
ROM. 7.13. Was then that which is good made death to me? God forbid! But Sin, that it might appear Sin, working death in me by that which is good; that Sin by the Commandment might become exceeding sinful.
Being to treat of the exceeding sinfulness of Sin, 'tis not only expedient, 1but necessary that I preface and premise such things as these; viz. (1) That God made all things very good, Genes. 1.31. they were all endowed with the perfections which were suitable to their several beings; so that none of them could find fault with, or complain of God, as if he had been wanting to them, or had made them defective: yet (2) of these, the two most eminent and principal degrees of creatures did quickly degenerate; for some of the Angels sinned, ⟨p. 2⟩and kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, Jude 6. And by giving way to their subtle and envious insinuations, the Man Adam (who was a common person) sinned also, Genes. 3. And thus by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned,