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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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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.
2 He that sinneth doth not only do as the devil doth, such work as he, but he doth work for the devil, he is servant and slave to the devil; he worketh in the children of disobedience, and they work for him; he is their Prince, and their God, whose servants they are, and whose work they do; his servants ye are whom ye obey, saith the Apostle, Rom. 6.16. So then, they that serve and obey the ⟨p. 187⟩devil are his servants: Sin is the service of the devil, the work that sinners do for the devil: Oh what wages are they like to have, who serve such a Master! though sinners defy the devil in words, yet they deify him in works, and at last he will devillize them, and bring them into like nature and misery with himself: Sinners are led by him at his will, like his dogs in a string: when men are converted, they are delivered from his power, Acts 26.18. and they that apostatize or are excommunicated, are delivered again to Satan; so that in whatever state a sinner be a sinner, whither Infidel, Formalist, or Apostate, he is under the power of the devil, doing his work, and making work for his wages.
2 He that sinneth doth not only do as the devil doth, such work as he, but he doth work for the devil, he is servant and slave to the devil; he worketh in the children of disobedience, and they work for him; he is their Prince, and their God, whose servants they are, and whose work they do; his servants ye are whom ye obey, saith the Apostle, Rom. 6.16. So then, they that serve and obey the ⟨p. 187⟩devil are his servants: Sin is the service of the devil, the work that sinners do for the devil: Oh what wages are they like to have, who serve such a Master! though sinners defie the devil in words, yet they deifie him in works, and at last he will devillize them, and bring them into like nature and misery with himself: Sinners are led by him at his will, like his dogs in a string: when men are converted, they are deliver'd from his power,