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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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8 God witnesseth against sin by the many great and severe judgments which he hath executed upon, 1as well as threatened to sinners, and which he will in all Ages execute on many, and to all ⟨p. 105⟩Eternity on some sinners; for what God hath done, shows what God will do; as the Apostle infers, 2 Pet. 2.3, 4, 5, 6. Sinners do hugely mistake God, when they say evil is good in his sight, or where is the God of judgment, Mal. 2.17. and do no less forget themselves, and what God hath done, when they say, all things continue as they were; and therefore scoffingly say, where is the promise of his coming, viz. to judgment, 2 Pet. 3. 'Tis true, if God should judge as fast as men sin, the world would be depopulated, and at an end quickly: But his patience now argues his judgment to come, 2 Pet. 3.9, 10. and then when God sends men to hell, and damns them, they will know and acknowledge what an evil thing sin was, and what bitterness it brings in the latter end. Damnation being so dreadful a thing, as the pouring out of Gods wrath for ever on sinners, it must needs conclude sin to be extremely displeasing, because contrary to him: That's no little matter for which God brings on men such great damnation: Next judgment to this, is being let alone, or given up to a reprobate judgment, and an hardened heart; but that being future, and this (though present) invisible, I shall wave further speaking to them, and show that God hath visibly judged this world for sin, from Age to Age: He is a God that judgeth in the earth, as he is a God that will judge the earth: And the Lord is known (to be against sin) by the judgments which he executeth, the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands, Psa. 9.16, which hath a double note upon it, Higgaion, Selah; both which I do not remember to be added ⟨p. 106⟩