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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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Ann as to the soul and all its faculties, it and they will speed no better; their understanding will be tormented with having the truth understood in miserable effects; that which it laughed ⟨p. 88⟩at as foolishness, it will then find true by the loss of it, viz. Gospel happiness: The conscience will be like a stinging Adder, a gnawing worm: The will will be vexed that it had its will so long; Here men think it a Princely thing to have their will, but there they'll find it a devilish thing.
Ann as to the soul and all its faculties, it and they will speed no better; their understanding will be tormented with having the truth understood in miserable effects; that which it laught ⟨p. 88⟩at as foolishness, it will then find true by the loss of it, viz. Gospel happiness: The conscience will be like a stinging Adder, a gnawing worm: The will will be vex'd that it had its will so long; Here men think it a Princely thing to have their will, but there they'l find it a devillish thing.
3 3Yet further, these torments will be without intermission; they shall be tormented day and night, Rev. 14.11. and have no rest: Here our sleep is a Parenthesis to care, and sorrow, and pain, but there's no sleeping there; the God that executes wrath, and they on whom wrath is executed, neither slumber nor sleep: here they have some intermissions, and lucid intervals in their madness, but there they will be e'en mad continually for vexation of heart.
- 3Without intermission.