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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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1 The Law is against sin before 'tis committed, 'tis against its being to be committed, its holy, and wholly against sin, for it forbids sin, all sin, whither of Omission or Commission, whither in thought, word or deed, whither against God, or against man, the voice and cry of the Law is, thou shalt not sin; so that (in this sense) by the Law is the knowledge of sin, viz. what is sin, as well as what sin is, Rom. 7.7. Is the Law sin, God forbid! nay, I had not known sin but by the Law, for I had not known lust or concupiscence (to be a sin) except, or unless the Law had said, thou shalt not covet, thou shalt not lust: The Law shows that lust is sin by forbidding it; yea, the Law doth not only forbid sin, but forbids it upon great and severe penalty, upon no less then pain of death, on the peril of a curse, for this it saith, cursed be every one that doth not, and continueth not to do all things which are written in the Law, Gal. 3.11. So that the Law is utterly against the commission of sin.
1 The Law is against sin before 'tis committed, 'tis against its being to be committed, its holy, and wholly against sin, for it forbids sin, all sin, whither of Omission or Commission, whither in thought, word or deed, whither against God, or against man, the voice and cry of the Law is, thou shalt not sin; so that (in this sense) by the Law is the knowledge of sin, viz. what is sin, as well as what sin is, Rom. 7.7. Is the Law sin, God forbid! nay, I had not known sin but by the Law, for I had not known lust or concupiscence (to be a sin) except, or unless the Law had said, thou shalt not covet, thou shalt not lust: The Law shews that lust is sin by forbidding it; yea, the Law doth not only forbid sin, but forbids it upon great and severe penalty, upon no less then pain of death, on the peril of a curse, for this it saith, cursed be every one that doth not, and continueth not to do all things which are written in the Law, Gal. 3.11. So that the Law is utterly against the commission of sin.