A64834:381
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.
3 The law makes sin abound, and aggravates it exceedingly, Gal. 3.19. Wherefore serves the law? of what use is the law? It was added because of transgression, to make sin appear in its own colours: the law written in mans heart was so obliterated, that men could not discern sin by it, as they had wont: for, saith the Apostle, I had not known sin but by the law, viz. new promulged and written, I did not know it by the law in my heart, for that let me alone; so that the law was added to revive the sight and sense of sin, that men might see what an ugly thing sin is, infinitely worse then men are generally aware of, till the commandment come. The law entered that sin might abound, Rom. 5.20. not that men might sin more, but see their sin more, that men might take a full measure of sin in all the dimensions of it, in its height, depth, breadth and length; the holiness, goodness, justice, the severity. &c. of the law, do all set out sin in its ugly shape and colour.
3 The law makes sin abound, and aggravates it exceedingly, Gal. 3.19. Wherefore serves the law? of what use is the law? It was added because of transgression, to make sin appear in its own colours: the law written in mans heart was so obliterated, that men could not discern sin by it, as they had wont: for, saith the Apostle, I had not known sin but by the law, viz. new promulged and written, I did not know it by the law in my heart, for that let me alone; so that the law was added to revive the sight and sense of sin, that men might see what an ugly thing sin is, infinitely worse then men are generally aware of, till the commandment come. The law entred that sin might abound, Rom. 5.20. not that men might sin more, but see their sin more, that men might take a full measure of sin in all the dimensions of it, in its heighth, depth, breadth and length; the holiness, goodness, justice, the severity. &c. of the law, do all set out sin in its ugly shape and colour.