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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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4 That they may not sin, they abstain from appearances and occasions of evil: Job made a covenant with his eyes, Job 31.1. King David said he would take heed to his ways, that he might not sin with his tongue, Psa. 39.1. that is, that he might be perfectly holy in the sense of Saint James's phrase, Ch. 3.2. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, a great Commander of himself, and able to bridle the whole body, which is the expression used in the forequoted Psalm: when chaste Joseph met with a tempting Mistress, 'tis said of him, he hearkened not unto her, not only not to lye with her, but not to be with her, Gen. 39.10. but fled, as from a plague, or devil, v 12.
4 That they may not sin, they abstain from appearances and occasions of evil: Job made a covenant with his eyes, Job 31.1. King David said he would take heed to his ways, that he might not sin with his tongue, Psa. 39.1. that is, that he might be perfectly holy in the sense of Saint James's phrase, Ch. 3.2. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, a great Commander of himself, and able to bridle the whole body, which is the expression used in the forequoted Psalm: when chast Joseph met with a tempting Mistris, 'tis said of him, he hearkned not unto her, not only not to lye with her, but not to be with her, Gen. 39.10. but fled, as from a plague, or devil, v 12.
By all these things (to name no more) it clearly appears, that in the esteem of good men, sin is an exceeding impious and pernicious thing: But I am sensible there will be two exceptions ⟨p. 137⟩