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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 2He suffered from all manner of persons; Christ Jesus suffered from the Devil; for though Christ bruised his head, yet he bruised Christ his heel: No sooner had Christ the testimony from heaven, that he was the Son of God, but he was immediately carried into the Wilderness to be tempted of the Devil; and this was the thing questioned and disputed whither he were the Son of God or not: and though Christ worsted ⟨p. 117⟩him, and beat him out of the field, yet he departed but for a season; for when Christ was about to suffer, the Prince of this world mustered up all his forces again, and came upon him with much violence, and made men of all qualities his Agents, to add to the sufferings of Christ: And indeed, he suffered not only from bad men, as you have it, Acts 4.26, 27. which fulfilled that in Psa. 2. beg. He was tempted by the Pharisees often, and he endured the contradiction of sinners; yet this was not all, but he suffered from his own disciples, and nearest relations. Peter was a Satan to him once, and denied him thrice; the rest grieved him with their slowness and littleness of faith: Judas betrayed him, his Brethren believed not on him; and which was heavest of all the rest, he suffered from his Father, he put the Cup into his hands, and took pleasure to bruise him, and he laid upon him the iniquities of us all, yea, God did not spare him, nor abate him any thing, but hid his face from him, as if he had been angry with his only and most beloved Son.
2 2He suffer'd from all manner of persons; Christ Jesus suffer'd from the Devil; for though Christ bruised his head, yet he bruised Christ his heel: No sooner had Christ the testimony from heaven, that he was the Son of God, but he was immediately carried into the Wilderness to be tempted of the Devil; and this was the thing question'd and disputed whither he were the Son of God or not: and though Christ worsted ⟨p. 117⟩