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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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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.
1 As he abhors to commit sin, so he abhors sin committed, and himself for committing it, Job 40.4. & 40.6. Sin is the burden of every good mans soul: when the Author of Psa. 73. had sinned, he was so angry with himself, that he could not (do that which God did for him, viz.) forgive and pardon himself, but calls himself fool and beast: good men condemn not only their sin, but themselves, and sin in the more hateful to them, for having been done by them.
1 As he abhors to commit sin, so he abhors sin committed, and himself for committing it, Job 40.4. & 40.6. Sin is the burthen of every good mans soul: when the Author of Psa. 73. had sinned, he was so angry with himself, that he could not (do that which God did for him, viz.) forgive and pardon himself, but calls himself fool and beast: good men condemn not only their sin, but themselves, and sin in the more hateful to them, for having been done by them.
2 They are restless till sin be purged, as well as pardoned: King David could not content himself to have sin blotted out by a pardon, unless 'twere washed and cleansed away, Psa. 51.1, 2. and the mending of his beart, without new making it by Creation, would not content him, v. 10.
2 They are restless till sin be purged, as well as pardon'd: King David could not content himself to have sin blotted out by a pardon, unless 'twere washt and cleans'd away,