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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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3 It appears yet further by this, that they will decry and punish that sin in others, which themselves are guilty of, the better to conceal their own, or to compensate for it, by being severe to others: when a Thief hath stolen and robbed, he is the first that makes Hue and Cry, they are loth to be found the sinners themselves. We read that though Judah was guilty of Incest himself, yet how forward he was to punish fornication in Jamar his Daughter-in-law, Genes. 38. When ⟨p. 153⟩our Saviour put the case to the Pharisees, what the Lord of the Vineyard would do with the Husbandmen that had abused and beaten his servants, and (which was worse) slain his son; they could readily answer, [Greek or Hebrew] he will miserably (Gr. wickedly, i.e. with a punishment great as their sin, will be) destroy these wicked men, Mat. 21.41. Thus when they knew not whom they condemned, they condemned themselves, and their own sin, ex ore tuo, out of thine own mouth art thou condemned, O sinner! 'Tis true, the case was altered, when he said that they were the men; but by this we see, that when men are not concerned, or seem not to be so, how severe they are against sin, yea, when they do it to hide their own wickedness, as John 8.7, 8, 9.
3 It appears yet further by this, that they will decry and punish that sin in others, which themselves are guilty of, the better to conceal their own, or to compensate for it, by being severe to others: when a Thief hath stoln and robbed, he is the first that makes Hue and Cry, they are loth to be found the sinners themselves. We read that though Judah was guilty of Incest himself, yet how forward he was to punish fornication in Jamar his Daughter-in-law, Genes. 38. When ⟨p. 153⟩our Saviour put the case to the Pharisees, what the Lord of the Vineyard would do with the Husbandmen that had abused and beaten his servants, and (which was worse) slain his son; they could readily answer, he will miserably (Gr. wickedly, i.e. with a punishment great as their sin, will be) destroy these wicked men,