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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
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.
Particularly 1. To sin, and live in sin, is to do as the devil doth, to be like him, and conformable to him: Sin is his work, he is so evil and ⟨p. 186⟩wicked, that he is called (emphatically, and by way of eminence) the [Greek or Hebrew], the evil, and the wicked one, 1 Joh. 2.13. Ch. 3.12. as if there were none evil, or at least so evil as he: yea, the devils are not only wicked, but called wickednesses in the abstract, Eph. 6.12. and abstracts note Essences: He sinned from the beginning, and continueth sinning to this day; and they that do imitate him in his work, are his children as much as if they were begotten of him, Joh. 8.44. ye are of your father the devil, and (his works his lusts ye will do; he was and is a murderer, he attempted it upon God, but effected it on himself and man; he is the Abaddon and Apollyon, the murderer to this day, Rev. 9.11. he is ('tis true) a liar, deceiver, a tempter, but he doth all these as subserving his name as a King (for so he is called, Rev. 9.11.) his reigning sin, which is a destroyer or murderer, 1 Pet. 5.8. Now just thus 'tis said of them that sin, Prov. 8.36. they destroy their own souls, they are selones dense, self-murderers. Sin is devils work.
Particularly 1. To sin, and live in sin, is to do as the devil doth, to be like him, and conformable to him: Sin is his work, he is so evil and ⟨p. 186⟩wicked, that he is called (emphatically, and by way of eminence) the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the evil, and the wicked one,