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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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1 3God himself beareth witness against sin: As he leaves us not without witness of his being good, so he hath not left us without witness of sins being sinful, against him, and against the good of man.
- 3God in 7 particulars
1 1By this, that God hath forbidden is, and made a Law against it; all the Laws, and every command of God, are his witnesses against sin; and as he that believes not the testimony God beareth of his Son, so he that believes not Gods testimony against sin, makes God a liar, who is true and cannot lye: The Law written in mans own heart, the Law written in Tables of stone, the Gospel also (which is the Law of Faith) is written as a witness against sin, 1 Joh. 2.1. Now ⟨p. 99⟩surely God would not have prohibited sin, had it not been an abominable thing, abominated by him, and to be abominated by us. God hath given man room and scope enough, a very large allowance; of all the Trees of the Garden man might eat, only one excepted. So Phil. 4.8. whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely; whatsoever is of good report, if there be any virtue, any praise, these things think on and do: Now sin comes under none of these names, but is contrary to them all, and therefore forbidden: God hath not forbidden man honours, riches, nor any pleasures, but them of sin: Surely then, seeing God delights not to grieve the children of men, but rejoiceth over them to do them good with all his heart, and all his soul, as he is pleased to express it,