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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.
2. How sin increaseth in others, and infects others; it went from one man to every man: ⟨p. 202⟩how soon had the world got the name of ungodly world, or world of ungodly? 2 Pet. 2.5. and after the flood, how soon was the world overspread with sin from seven or eight persons? one root of bitterness defiles many, Heb. 12.15. Mens ill examples are very pestilential and pernicious, a little Leaven leaveneth the whole lump, as our Country Proverb hath it, one scabbed sheep infects a whole flock. The world grows worse and worse, the latter days most peril us because most sinful; and as if there had not been sin enough, some set up projects and trades of new sins, being inventors of evil things, Rom. 1.30. Oh how diffusive and catching is this infection, for others will quickly be in these new-invented fashions of sin and sinning! Yet again,
2. How sin increaseth in others, and infects others; it went from one man to every man: ⟨p. 202⟩how soon had the world got the name of ungodly world, or world of ungodly? 2 Pet. 2.5. and after the flood, how soon was the world overspread with sin from seven or eight persons? one root of bitterness defiles many, Heb. 12.15. Mens ill examples are very pestilential and pernicious, a little Leaven leaveneth the whole lump, as our Country Proverb hath it, one scabbed sheep infects a whole flock. The world grows worse and worse, the latter days most perill us because most sinful; and as if there had not been sin enough, some set up projects and trades of new sins, being inventors of evil things, Rom. 1.30. Oh how diffusive and catching is this infection, for others will quickly be in these new-invented fashions of sin and sinning! Yet again,