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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
SIN, THE PLAGUE of PLAGUES; OR Sinful Sin the worst of Evils.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
So that upon the whole I may Illustrate the scope and meaning, by a familiar example or instance: 'Tis as if it had been said by a Malefactor to the Judge, thus; Oh my Lord, how cruelly unmerciful are you to condemn me to die? Nay, saith the Judge, 'tis not I, 'tis the Law, I am but the mouth of the Law: Nay, saith the Law, 'tis not I, 'tis sin; if thou hadst not sinned I had not condemned, for the Law is not against the righteous, 1 Tim. 1.9. No, against such there is no Law, no condemnation from it. Gal. 5.28. Thou mayst then in me (as in a glass) see what a deadly destructive and killing thing thy sin is: Bvery mouth must be stopped, there's no room for complaint against God or his Law, for thou art (as all others are) by becoming guilty, fallen short of the glory, and subject to the judgment of God, Rom. 3.-19.-23. So that by the Commandment sin appears to be a desperate malignant thing, the proper, true and only cause of mans condemnation and death.
So that upon the whole I may Illustrate the scope and meaning, by a familiar example or instance: 'Tis as if it had been said by a Malefactor to the Judge, thus; Oh my Lord, how cruelly unmerciful are you to condemn me to die? Nay, saith the Judge, 'tis not I, 'tis the Law, I am but the mouth of the Law: Nay, saith the Law, 'tis not I, 'tis sin; if thou hadst not sinn'd I had not condemn'd, for the Law is not against the righteous, 1 Tim. 1.9. No, against such there is no Law, no condenmation from it. Gal. 5.28. Thou mayst then in me (as in a glass) see what a deadly destructive and killing thing thy sin is: Bvery mouth must be stopped, there's no room for complaint against God or his Law, for thou art (as all others are) by becoming guilty, sallen short of the glory, and subject to the judgment of God, Rom. 3.-19.-23. So that by the Commandment sin appears to be a desperate malignant thing, the proper, true and only cause of mans condemnation and death.