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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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4 There's yet to be considered the Tormentors, 4or inflicters of these torments: The Devil, Conscience, and God himself will torment the damned.
4 There's yet to be consider'd the Tormentors, 4or inflicters of these torments: The Devil, Conscience, and God himself will torment the damned.
- 4The tormentors.
1 The Devil, 1the Tempter will be the Tormentor; they will be tormented not only with, but by Devils: They will be delivered to the Goalers, the Tormentors, as 'tis Mat. 18.34, 35. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do to you, viz. deliver you to the Tormentors: When the Church Excommunicates, (which is an Emblem of this) it doth deliver to Satan; and when God Excommunicates, he gives up to the Devil, take him Goaler, torment him Tormentor. The Apostle thought it a great misery to fall into the hands of unreasonable men, and therefore prays and begs prayers against it: But if the tender mercies of wicked men are cruelties, what are the cruelties of the Devil and his Angels? especially when God delivers men up into their ⟨p. 90⟩hands; Oh what a misery is it to fall into the Devils clutches, to be tormented by the Devil. If he do so much now by permission, what will he then do by Commission, when he shall be under no restraint? We may guess by what he doth do now, what he is like to do, and will do then.