A64834:287
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 Good men bear witness against sin, 1jointly and severally, to which of the Saints shall we turn? (as was said in another case) they all with one consent, as one man, with one voice, and one mouth, cry out against sin as a sinful ⟨p. 129⟩thing: one says, yea all say, 'twere damnation to be a sinner, if there were no other hell: another says, 'twere better to be in hell with Christ, then in heaven with sin: another saith, 'tis more ugly then the devil: they all subscribe to this, that sin is the most odious of all evils, hell it self not more, for it had not been, had not sin made it: Good men bear witness against other mens sins, and against their own also.
1 Good men bear witness against sin, 1joyntly and severally, to which of the Saints shall we turn? (as was said in another case) they all with one consent, as one man, with one voice, and one mouth, cry out against sin as a sinful ⟨p. 129⟩thing: one says, yea all say, 'twere damnation to be a sinner, if there were no other hell: another says, 'twere better to be in hell with Christ, then in heaven with sin: another saith, 'tis more ugly then the devil: they all subscribe to this, that sin is the most odious of all evils, hell it self not more, for it had not been, had not sin made it: Good men bear witness against other mens sins, and against their own also.
- 1Good men.
1 Against other mens sins, 1if possible to prevent, if not to convince: For