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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1 Who have lived long in sin: The longer men have lived in sin on earth, the greater will their torments be in hell, Isai. 65.20. The sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed, with a witness; for he hath been long treasuring up wrath (much wrath) against the day of wrath: he hath a great account to make for all the patience and forbearance of God: Some men grow rich by having other mens goods in their hands, not called in: when men forbear their money, and leave it in their hands, they grow rich by it; so do wicked men grow rich in wrath by abusing the goodness and patience of God, because God forbears them, and doth not take out executions against them, and enter into judgment, they grow rich, but alas! 'tis in wrath. See Rev. 21.22.
2 The more means men have had, the more cost and charges God hath been at, the more pains God hath taken with men, and yet they continue impenitent, the more severe will his judgment be upon them: If Christ had not come, they had had no such sin; this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness. Capernaum that was exalted to heaven, by means, will be thrown to hell in the end, Mat. 11.23. To shall from earth to hell will be a great fall, but to fall from heaven to hell will be a greater: To go from Turkey to hell will be sad, but to go from England to hell, and from London to hell, ah how ruefully sad!
2 The more means men have had, the more cost and charges God hath been at, the more pains God hath taken with men, and yet they continue impenitent, the more severe will his judgment be upon them: If Christ had not come, they had had no such sin; this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness. Capernaum that was exalted to heaven, by means, will be thrown to hell in the end,