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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 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⟩to have an end, 'twere some comfort: but here lies the misery, they will be to day as yesterday, and for ever; as in the beginning, so all along, and for ever, always the same, if not increasing: This is the woe of woe, the hell of hell, that 'tis woe and hell for ever. After sinners have been in hell, millions of millions of years, hell will be as much hell as at first; the fire that burns will never go out: the worm that gnaws will never die, which is three times repeated by our Lord and Saviour in one Chapter, Mark 9.44.46.48. 'twill be a lasting, yea an everlasting misery; 'tis everlasting punishment, and everlasting fire, Mat. 25.41.46.
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⟩to have an end, 'twere some comfort: but here lies the misery, they will be to day as yesterday, and for ever; as in the beginning, so all along, and for ever, alwayes the same, if not encreasing: This is the woe of woe, the hell of hell, that 'tis woe and hell for ever. After sinners have been in hell, millions of millions of years, hell will be as much hell as at first; the fire that burns will never go out: the worm that gnaws will never die, which is three times repeated by our Lord and Saviour in one Chapter, Mark 9.44.46.48. 'twill be a lasting, yea an everlasting misery; 'tis everlasting punishment, and everlasting fire,