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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.
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.
Yea 4. They take an holy revenge on themselves, and become the more zealous for God; as S Peter, who did not only weep bitterly, but was made willing to feed sheep and Lambs, to do any and ⟨p. 143⟩every service for Christ: And Psa. 51.12, 13. restore to me (saith he) the joy of thy salvation, and I will teach the transgressors thy ways: So 2 Cor. 7. when the Apostle had made them sorry with a sharp Epistle, he doth not repent of it, because it wrought such sorrow in them, as wrought repentance to salvation, not to be repented of, as appeared in their indignation against, revenge upon themselves, and zeal for God; as he there speaks in their behalf.