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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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God hath testified his displeasure against sin, by […] judgment 1 On Sinners. 2 Saints. 3 His Son.
God hath testified his displeasure against sin, by 〈…〉 judgment 1 On Sinners. 2 Saints. 3 His Son.
1 God hath executed judgment on sinners; 1and usually the first committer of any particular sin, hath been punished with eminent and remarkable punishment: Nor to mention Adam (who was all men i• one, virtually) though he underwent a punishments •nd a curse for his sin: but Cain the first […], was as 'twere hung up in […] […], or a terrible warning to others. Judas […] first Apostate, was made an example under the Law: Nadab and Abihu, the first breakers of the Ceremonial Law, after the establishment of Aaron's Priesthood, Ananias and Sapphira, the first that belied God in the beginning of the Christian Church, were miraculously punished: God hath made heaps of witnesses this way: God hath set up monuments for Pillars of Salt, like •ots Wife: The Flood that drowned the old world, the Fire that burnt up Sodom and Gomorrah, &c. and the many things that befell Israel for an example, were all types, as the Apostle speaks. 1 Cor. 10.11. God hath punished all sinners more or less; he spared not the […] sinned, they were all doomed to darkness; he consumed almost a whole world at once, having eight persons; he hath cut off Cities and Nations, not a few, beside what hath fallen particular persons, and therefore men ⟨p. 107⟩cannot say, that all things continue as they were, and that God is not a God of judgment, or consequently an allower of the evil of sin.