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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.
SIN, THE PLAGUE of PLAGUES; OR Sinful Sin the worst of Evils.
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. What witness and evidence there is to make good this Indictment and Charge against Sin, that it is so vile and abominable, so sinful as the Apostle calls it. And
4. What use and improvement is to be made of the Doctrine of Sins excessive sinfulness.
1. To begin with the subject, 1and to show what sin is: Sin is the transgression of a Law, yea of a good Law, yea of a Gods Law: Sin supposeth a Law in being, for where there is no Law, there is no transgression, Rom. 4.15. but where there is sin, there is a Law, and a transgression of the Law, 1 Joh. 3.4. whosoever committeth ⟨p. 8⟩sin transgresseth the Law, for sin is a transgression of the Law; and this is the sin intended here in the Text, as appears by v. 7.
1. To begin with the subject, 1and to shew what sin is: Sin is the transgression of a Law, yea of a good Law, yea of a Gods Law: Sin supposeth a Law in being, for where there is no Law, there is no transgression, Rom. 4.15. but where there is sin, there is a Law, and a transgression of the Law,