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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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2 2The sufferings of Jesus Christ were exceeding great. I shall omit what may be gathered from the types under the Law, and what is expressed by the Prophets concerning the suffering of Christ, though many things might be collected thence, but they being all fulfilled in him, I shall confine my self especially to the relation made thereof in the N. Testament: He was a man of sorrows, as if he were a man made up of sorrows (as the Man of Sin is, as if he were made ⟨p. 113⟩up of sin) as if he were nothing else: He knew more sorrow then any man, yea, then all men ever did: For the iniquity (and consequently the sorrows) of all men met in him, as if he had been their Centre; and he was acquainted with griefs, he had little acquaintance else, grief was his familiar acquaintance; he had no acquaintance with laughter; we read not, that he laughed at all when he was in the world; his other acquaintance stood afar off, but grief followed him to his Cross; from his birth to his death, from his Cradle to the Cross, from the Womb to the Tomb, he was a man of sorrows, and never were sorrows like his, he might say, never grief or sorrow like to mine: 'tis indeed impossible to express the sufferings and sorrows of Christ; and the Greek Christians used to beg of God, [Greek or Hebrew], that for the unknown sufferings of Christ he would have mercy on them: Though Christs sufferings are abundantly made known, yet they are but little known; eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it, or can it enter into the heart of man to conceive what Christ suffered; who hath known the power of Gods wrath? Christ Jesus knew it, for he underwent it: but though it be impossible to declare all, yet 'tis useful to take a view of what we can; I shall therefore draw a Scheme of Christs sufferings under three Heads.
2 2The sufferings of Jesus Christ were exceeding great. I shall omit what may be gather'd from the types under the Law, and what is exprest by the Prophets concerning the suffering of Christ, though many things might be collected thence, but they being all fulfilled in him, I shall confine my self especially to the relation made thereof in the N. Testament: He was a man of sorrows, as if he were a man made up of sorrows (as the Man of Sin is, as if he were made