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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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Third thing, 3to show that the greatest sufferings that Christ underwent, are a full witness against the sinfulness of sin: Oh what an odious thing is sin to God, that he will pardon none without blood, Hebr. 9.22. that God would accept ⟨p. 119⟩no blood, but the blood of his Son! not that of Bulls and Goats, Hebr. 9.22. but that of his Son, 1 Pet. 1.18, 19. that God would not abate one drop, one dram of this blood, but he must pour out his life! the very heart-blood must be spilt and spent for sinners! and which is the wonder of wonders, all this was a pleasure to God, for it pleased the Lord to bruise him: That it should please the Lord to bruise the Son in whom he was well-pleased, is to us men an inconceivable mystery! Well then upon the whole, this is a great witness that God hath born against sin, that he would send his Son to die for sinners: oh what an hell of wickedness is that, which none but God can expiate and purge, and that God doth not do it, without taking humane nature, and that God-man could not do it, without suffering, and no suffering serve but death, no death but an accursed one: oh what an evil odious evil is sin, that must have blood, the blood of God to take it away! This shall suffice for the first thing, viz. the witness of God against sin as exceeding sinful.
Third thing, 3to shew that the greatest sufferings that Christ underwent, are a full witness against the sinfulness of sin: Oh what an odious thing is sin to God, that he will pardon none without blood, Hebr. 9.22. that God would accept ⟨p. 119⟩no blood, but the blood of his Son! not that of Bulls and Goats, Hebr. 9.22