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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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Lastly, It fully appears that godly men abhor sin by this, that they desire to die upon no account more then this, to be rid of sin, that they may sin no more, but be holy, as he which hath called them is holy; they groan for a change upon this account, 2 Cor. 5.4. mortality and corruption are conjoined, 1 Cor. 15. and this is not laid aside till that be; and therefore they desire not only to be in Christ, where there is no condemnation, Rom. 8.1. but to be with Christ, Phil. 1.23. which is best of all; for there is no sin, no, nor temptation to it: There was never a temptation to sin in heaven, since the devil was cast out, nor will never be, for the devil shall never be there, nor corruption neither, for that ceaseth, when mortality is swallowed up of life: So that upon the whole, the witness of godly men is unexceptionable, notwithstanding their having sinned. I now proceed to show,
Lastly, It fully appears that godly men abhor sin by this, that they desire to die upon no account more then this, to berid of sin, that they may sin no more, but be holy, as he which hath called them is holy; they groan for a change upon this account, 2 Cor. 5.4. mortality and corruption are conjoyn'd, 1 Cor. 15. and this is not laid aside till that be; and therefore they desire not only to be in Christ, where there is no condemnation, Rom. 8.1. but to be with Christ, Phil. 1.23. which is best of all; for there is no sin, no, nor temptation to it: There was never a temptation to sin in heaven, since the devil was cast out, nor will never be, for the devil shall never be there, nor corruption neither, for that ceaseth, when mortality is swallowed up of life: So that upon the whole, the witness of godily men is unexceptionable, notwithstanding their having sinned. I now proceed to shew,