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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 By way of concession and confession, that they do sin; yea, who is he that liveth and sinneth not? If any man say he hath not sinned, he makes God a liar (who hath concluded all men under sin) and if we say we have no sin, we both deceive, and yet confute our selves, for we sin in saying so, 1 Joh. 8.10.
1 By way of concession and confession, that they do sin; yea, who is he that liveth and sinneth not? If any man say he hath not sinned, he makes God a lyar (who hath concluded all men under sin) and if we say we have no sin, we both deceive, and yet confute our selves, for we sin in saying so, 1 Joh. 8.10.
Yet 2. There is this to be said, that the sins of good men are more usually sins of captivity, then sins of activity, as the Apostle speaks, Rom. 7. they are rather led into sin by temptation, then go into sin by choice and inclination; 'tis against the Law of their mind: 'Tis indeed possible that a good man may plot and contrive a sin, as David did the death of Uriah; and this is the only thing wherein God himself saith that David sinned, 1 Kings 15.5. God covers all his other sins, as being rather overtaken by temptation, then acted by design in the rest: So that for the most part, good men are captivated rather then active as to sin: And David himself could say, that he had not wickedly (after the manner of the wicked, Jude 15.) departed from God, Psa. 18.21.