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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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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.
Methinks I cannot go on till I have a little expostulated with thee, who ever thou be that readest; needs there any more to fright thee from sinning, which is the way to damnation, then the thoughts of damnation (such a damnation!) which is at the end of the way of sin? for thy Souls-sake hear and fear, and do no more wickedly: What! wilt thou be damned? canst with patience think of going to hell? hast thou no pity on thy precious Soul? Oh if thou shouldst go from reading of hell into hell, thou wouldst surely say, there was a Prophet, I would not believe it, but now I feel it: Think of it, and
3 3Think of what's now to be added concerning the duration of these torments, they will be for ever; though they were great, universal, and without intermission for a time, yet if they were ⟨p. 89⟩