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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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but none can say (periissem nisi peccassem) I had perished if I had not sinned; no, no, 'tis by sin we perish and are undone: many have thanked God for affliction, but never any for sin. Some indeed mistake that place, Rom. 6.17. as if the Apostle thanked God that they were sinners, no by no means; but he thanks God that they who once were sinners, were become obedient to the Gospel: and the proper sense and reading is, Thanks be to God, though ye were the servants of sin (in time past) yet (now) ye have obeyed the form of Doctrine which was delivered to you, or (as the Margin ⟨p. 214⟩and Greek) whereunto ye were delivered. Sin of it self is neither good before nor after its commission, 'tis not good to be committed, nor good after 'tis committed, nor doth it do us any good, but hurt all our days; but other evils, though we cannot call them good before, and so desire them; yet we can call them good after, and so thank God for them.
but none can say (periissem nisi peccassem) I had perished if I had not sinned; no, no, 'tis by sin we perish and are undone: many have thankt God for affliction, but never any for sin. Some indeed mistake that place, Rom. 6.17. as if the Apostle thanked God that they were sinners, no by no means; but he thanks God that they who once were sinners, were become obedient to the Gospel: and the proper sense and reading is, Thanks be to God, though ye were the servants of sin (in time past) yet (now) ye have obeyed the form of Doctrine which was delivered to you, or (as the Margine ⟨p. 214⟩and Greek) whereunto ye were delivered. Sin of it self is neither good before nor after its commission, 'tis not good to be committed, nor good after 'tis committed, nor doth it do us any good, but hurt all our days; but other evils, though we cannot call them good before, and so desire them; yet we can call them good after, and so thank God for them.