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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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1 Then the devil witnesseth against sin by his trembling; the devil trembles at this, that there is a God, James 2.19. Now God was never terrible to the Angels till they sinned, then they saw and trembled at the terror of God: Sin brought judgment on the devils, 2 Pet. 2.4 at this they tremble; so that sin is the first cause of devils trembling: That then which makes devils tremble at the belief of a God, (who will be a God of judgment) is exceeding sinful.
2 As great as their judgment is (and greater though it be like to be) yet they acknowledge it just, and so by consequence sin to be unjust and sinful: The justness of judgment confessed, is a confession of the vileness of the sin which brings the judgment. Say the devils, Mat. 8.29 Art thou come to torment us before the time? they confess that ⟨p. 125⟩the Son of God was to judge them to torment; that they had no exception to make against being tormented, but only as to the time; they are reserved in chains to judgment, 2 Pet. 2.4. Jude 6. and say they, art thou come to torment us before the time? before the judgment of the great day, to which we are reserved? they deny not their being worthy of this death, or that their damnation is just, and therefore do confess the ugliness and filthiness of sin.
2 As great as their judgment is (and greater though it be like to be) yet they acknowledge it just, and so by consequence sin to be unjust and sinful: The justness of judgment confest, is a confession of the vileness of the sin which brings the judgment. Say the devils,