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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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• 1God is […] with the wicked, and that wit[…] angry with […]) argues and […] by them for he […] […] displease him: […] is nor that evil […] God to […] sometime to […] judgment […] ••gry wer• […] God would not rebuke […] who knows the power[…] his anger and […] •appy they that […] do nor withdraw ⟨p. 103⟩his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him, Job 9.13. the helpers of pride, so 'tis; man is apt to be very proud, and hath helpers of pride; and 'tis observable, that the word we read, pride, signifies strength also, to denote that man is very apt to be proud of his strength; but all the strong helpers of pride must stoop, if he withdraw not his anger: The strength of riches, Prov. 10.15. the strength of friends and families, Psa. 49.7. strength and stoutness of spirit must all stoop, if his anger break forth, if he take but one of his arrows and discharge it against a sinner; if he strike him but with one blow of his sword, as the phrases are, Psa. 7.11.-14. Kiss the Son least he be angry, and ye perish; perishing is at the heels of his anger, Psa. 2.12. The fear or terror of a King is like the roaring of a Lyon, whoso provoketh him to anger, sinneth against his own soul, Prov. 20.2. Oh what dread is there then from the anger of the King of Kings, when God sets our iniquities before him, we are consumed by his anger, and troubled by his wrath, Psa. 90.7. Now we infer, that if Gods anger be so terrible, and 'tis sin that makes God angry, that certainly sin is extremely sinful, contrary to God; or else the God of all grace, the God of patience, whose name is Love, would never be so angry at it, and for it.