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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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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, Psa. 51.1, 2. and the mending of his beart, without new making it by Creation, would not content him, v. 10.
Yea 3. If God chastise and afflict them for having sinned, yet they justify God; and whoever justifies a punishing God, condemns sin; if the sentence be just, the sin is unjust. Thus they do continually, Micah 7.9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him: So Psa. 51.3, 4. This confession I make, and this prayer I make, that thou (O Lord) mayst be justified when thou judgest. This also speaks against sin.
Yea 3. If God chastise and afflict them for having sinned, yet they justifie God; and whoever justifies a punishing God, condemns sin; if the sentence be just, the sin is unjust. Thus they do continually, Micah 7.9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him: So Psa. 51.3, 4. This confession I make, and this prayer I make, that thou (O Lord) mayst be justified when thou judgest. This also speaks against sin.