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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The rod is for the back of fools, but when it shall be turned into Scorpions, and God himself shall lay on strokes without mercy or pity, oh how tormenting will it be! A stone thrown from a weak arm will not hit very hard, but when the hand and arm of God shall throw down that wrath from heaven, which is now but threatened against ungodly men, and turn them into hell, as a mighty man throws one over his shoulders, oh how will it sink them deep into hell!
The rod is for the back of fools, but when it shall be turned into Scorpions, and God himself shall lay on stroaks without mercy or pitty, oh how tormenting will it be! A stone thrown from a weak arm will not hit very hard, but when the hand and arm of God shall throw down that wrath from heaven, which is now but threatned against ungodly men, and turn them into hell, as a mighty man throws one over his shoulders, oh how will it sink them deep into hell!
2 2The torments of hell will be universal, and universally inflicted.
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1 The torments themselves will be universal; 'twill be not a torment two or three, but all torments met together; hell is the place of torment it self, Luke 16 28. 'tis the centre of all punishments, sorrow and pain, wrath and vengeance, sire and darkness, all are there, as we proved before: If one disease put a man so much to it, what would a complication of diseases? If one punishment, the Strapado, the Rack, or any other be so tormenting, what would all at once be? Oh what then will hell be?