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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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5 Sinners are so ashamed of sin, that they mask it under a form of godliness; they paint it, and think to make it look well, though it be so much the more ugly for being coloured and complexioned with a form of godliness; the thing it self, and they that do it, being witnesses: ⟨p. 149⟩Though sinners are like devils, yet they would be thought Saints: Sauls sin must needs be for a sacrifice, and so God must patron the sin that was committed against himself, 1 Sam. 15. Absalom covers his Rebellion and Treason with the devotion of a vow, 2 Sam. 6.6. Herod smooths over his murderous intentions with the pretence of worship, and will murder S. John least he should be perjured, as if forsooth he durst not sin, unless he did it conscientiously (ne sit sceleratus secit scelus) This shall suffice to show, that wicked men are ashamed of sin, and to own it as such, they are ashamed of it before, and when they do commit it.
5 Sinners are so asham'd of sin, that they mask it under a form of godliness; they paint it, and think to make it look well, though it be so much the more ugly for being colour'd and complexion'd with a form of godliness; the thing it self, and they that do it, being witnesses: ⟨p. 149⟩Though sinners are like devils, yet they would be thought Saints: Sauls sin must needs be for a sacrifice, and so God must patron the sin that was committed against himself, 1 Sam. 15. Absolom covers his Rebellion and Treason with the devotion of a vow, 2 Sam. 6.6. Herod smooths over his murtherous intentions with the pretence of worship, and will murther S. John least he should be perjur'd, as if forsooth he durst not sin, unless he did it conscientiously (ne sit sceleratus secit scelus) This shall suffice to shew, that wicked men are asham'd of sin, and to own it as such, they are asham'd of it before, and when they do commit it.