A64834:356
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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1 The Creation witnesseth against Atheism, Rom. 1.20. He that hath said in his heart ⟨p. 162⟩there is no God, is called fool by every creature; quaelibet herba Deum. The very notion of a creature supposeth a God, and we may more reasonably conclude, that there is nothing then that there is no God; their being made, argues a first cause, and who is that but God? 'Tis so clear, saith the Apostle, from the Creation, viz. the Eternal Godhead, that they are left without excuse, Rom. 2.20. Rain from heaven, &c. is Gods witness of his being, and being good, as the Apostle infallibly concludes, Acts 14.15.-18. Creation and Providence (which is Creation upheld and continued) are witnesses for God! so that I may say with Job, Ch. 12.7, 8, 9 Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the Fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee; or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and the Fishes of the Sea shall declare unto thee, what? that the hand of the Lord hath wrought all these; if there be any being, there is a God, saith the Creation.
1 The Creation witnesseth against Atheisme, Rom. 1.20. He that hath said in his heart ⟨p. 162⟩there is no God, is called fool by every creature; quaelibet herba Deum. The very notion of a creature supposeth a God, and we may more reasonably conclude, that there is nothing then that there is no God; their being made, argues a first cause, and who is that but God? 'Tis so clear, saith the Apostle, from the Creation, viz. the Eternal Godhead, that they are left without excuse, Rom. 2.20. Rain from heaven, &c. is Gods witness of his being, and being good, as the Apostle infallibly concludes, Acts 14.15.-18. Creation and Providence (which is Creation upheld and continued) are witnesses for God! so that I may say with Job, Ch. 12.7, 8, 9 Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the Fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee; or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and the Fishes of the Sea shall declare unto thee, what? that the hand of the Lord hath wrought all these; if there be any being, there is a God, saith the Creation.