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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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5 False accusing, slandering, evil speaking, and back-biting of others, is of, and like the devil, Rev. 10.12. he is the accuser of the Brethren; as he did Job and Joshua, so he doth others very often without cause: they that do so, their tongues are set on fire of hell, Jam. 3.6. make-bates, slanderers, calumniators are called by the devils name, Diaboli, of which we read in three places of S. Pauls Epistles, 1 Tim. 3.11. 2 Tim. 3.3. Tit. 2.3. to carry slanders is the work of the devil.
5 False accusing, slandering, evil speaking, and back-biting of others, is of, and like the devil, Rev. 10.12. he is the accuser of the Brethren; as he did Job and Joshuah, so he doth others very often without cause: they that do so, their tongues are set on fire of hell, Jam. 3.6. make-bates, slanderers, calumniators are called by the devils name, Diaboli, of which we read in three places of S. Pauls Epistles, 1 Tim. 3.11. 2 Tim. 3.3. Tit. 2.3. to carry slanders is the work of the devil.
6 Another sin, which is the work of the devil, and which makes them that do it like the devil, is bindring persons from believing and closing with the truth of the Gospel, which may be done several ways: As,