A64834:443
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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The Application and Improvement of the Doctrine of Sins sinfulness.
1. §11By way of Inference for our Information in several things; as first in general, That Sin is the worst of Evils, the evil of evils, and indeed the only evil; nothing is so evil as, nay, nothing is evil (properly) but sin, nor in comparison of it. As the sufferings of this present time (of our life which are upon us) are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us; so neither the sufferings of this life or that to come, are worthy to be compared (for evil) with the evil of sin: No evil is displeasing to God or destructive to man, but the evil of sin. 'Tis worse then affliction, then death, then Devil, then Hell; affliction is not so afflictive, death is not so deadly, the Devil not so devilish, Hell not so hellish as sin is; and this will help to fill up the charge against its sinfulness, especially as it is contrary to and against the good of man.
1. §11By way of Inference for our Information in several things; as first in general, That Sin is the worst of Evils, the evil of evils, and indeed the only evil; nothing is so evil as, nay, nothing is evil (properly) but sin, nor in comparison of it. As the sufferings of this present time (of our life which are upon us) are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us; so neither the sufferings of this life or that to come, are worthy to be compared (for evil) with the evil of sin: No evil is displeasing to God or destructi•e to man, but the evil of sin. 'Tis worse then affliction, then death, then Devil, then Hell; affliction is not so afflictive, death is not so deadly, the Devil not so devilish, Hell not so hellish as sin is; and this will help to fill up the charge against its sinfulness, especially as it is contrary to and against the good of man.