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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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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?
1 The torments themselves will be universal; 'twill be not a torment two or three, but all tormants met together; hell is the place of torment it self, Luke 16 28. 'tis the center of all punishments, sorrow and pain, wrath and vengeance, sire and darknesse, all are there, as we proved before: If one disease put a man so much to it, what would a complication of discases? 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?
2 The persons on whom these torments will be inflicted; will be universally tormented; not one or two parts, but all, and all over; whole man hath sinned, and whole man will be tormented; not soul alone, or body only, but soul and body after the Resurrection and Judgment day: As for the body, all the members of it have been instruments of unrighteousness, and therefore all the members will be punished; as man is defiled, so man will be plagued, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot: The senses which men have indulged and gratified, will be filled with pain and torment, that shall be clean contrary to those pleasures wherewith they were gratified in this world. The eye which took so much pleasure in, and was enamoured of beauty, shall then see nothing but ugly Devils, and deformed Hags of damned wretches, &c. What shall the ear (that was delighted with Music and Love-songs, what shall it) hear? but hideous cries and gnashing of teeth, the howlings and yawlings of damned Fiends. The smell, that was gratified with Rose-buds, and sweet perfumes; shall have no pleasing scents, but unsavoury brimstone, and a stink. The taste, that was refreshed with eating the fat, and drinking the sweet, must have nothing but the dregs of the cup of Gods wrath: The touch and feeling shall be sensible then, not of fine and silken things, but of burning flames, and scorching fiery indignation.