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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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3 God sp•red not his Son when he came in the likeness of sinful flesh, and was no sinner, 3but by imputation, and representation: God was ever well pleased with his Son, yet when he stood in the behalf and stead of sinners, it pleased the Lord to bruise him; as if none else could strike a stroke hard enough; and though he cried with strong cries, yet his father would not take the Cup out of his hand: he suffered not for sinning himself, (for though he were tempted to sin, yet he was without sin) but he suffered for the sin of others; and in the glass of his suffering we ••y clearly see the sinfulness of sin: And this leads me to the last and great testimony of God against sin. Viz.
3 God sp•red not his Son when he came in the likeness of sinful flesh, and was no sinner, 3but by imputation, and representation: God was ever well pleased with his Son, yet when he stood in the behalf and stead of sinners, it pleas'd the Lord to bruise him; as if none else could strike a stroak hard enough; and though he cry'd with strong cries, yet his father would not take the Cup out of his hand: he suffer'd not for sinning himself, (for though he were tempted to sin, yet he was without sin) but he suffer'd for the sin of others; and in the glass of his suffering we ••y clearly see the sinfulness of sin: And this leads me to the last and great testimony of God against sin. Viz.
- 3On his Son.
7 Gods not sparing his Son, 7