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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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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, Mat. 11.23. To sall from earth to hell will be a great fall, but to fall from heaven to hell will be a greater: To go from Turky to hell will be sad, but to go from England to hell, and from London to hell, ah how rufully sad!
3 The more knowledge men attain to, the ⟨p. 94⟩more convictions men have had; without practise and improvement, the greater will their condemnation be, Luke 12.47. That servant which knew his Lords will, and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes: And 2 Pet. 2.21. it were better they had never known the way of righteousness, then (to know it, and not walk in it, or) having walked in it, to depart from it: to him that knows to do good, and doth it not, to him it is sin, great sin, sin with a witness, and condemnation with a vengeance. How can they escape the great condemnation, that neglect the great salvation; these become inexcusable under the judgment of God,