A64834:379
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
As 1. This, The Law allows us no favour, if we break it in any one thing, though we observe it in many things, if we keep not all, 'tis as if we kept it not at all; the Law will not pardon the least sin; there is no compounding with the Law, nor compensating a sin by doing a duty, Rom. 2 25. What profiteth Circumcision? it profiteth if thou keep the ⟨p. 172⟩Law, but if thou break the Law, Circumcision is as uncircumcision, it profiteth not at all: as one sinner destroyeth much good, so doth one sin; 'tis like a dead fly in a box of ointment, James 2.10. whosoever shall keep the whole, and yet offend in but one point, he is guilty of all (for the nature of all sin is in any and every one sin) if a man sin once, though but once, the Law casts him; for the Law is but the one will of God in divers particulars, either of which transgressed is against the will of God, which runs through all (as a silken string through a great many pearls, which if it be cut or broken but in one place, the whole is broken) and where ever there is but one transgression, the Law pronounceth the curse, Gal. 3.10. Had not God provided a City of refuge, a new and living way, we had never found any favour from, or by the Law, Rom. 8.2, 3. Hence
As 1. This, The Law allows us no favour, if we break it in any one thing, though we observe it in many things, if we keep not all, 'tis as if we kept it not at all; the Law will not pardon the least sin; there is no compounding with the Law, nor compensating a sin by doing a duty, Rom. 2 25. What profiteth Circumcision? it profiteth if thou keep the ⟨p. 172⟩Law, but if thou break the Law, Circumcision is as uncircumcision, it profiteth not at all: as one sinner destroyeth much good, so doth one sin; 'tis like a dead fly in a box of oyntment,