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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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The Heathen Moralist (Seneca) ventured to say, That if there were any spectacle here below noble enough, and worthy to entertain the eyes of God, it was that of a good man generously contending with ill fortune (as they used to phrase) afflictions and sufferings. But now, when men sin, he laughs them to scorn, if his sons and daughters sin, it provokes him to grieve and be angry; but the sins of others provoke him to laugh at and to hate them, Psal. 2.4, 5 Psal. 37.13. and which is better to suffer and please, or to sin and grieve God? to undergo that which by patient suffering of it, will rejoice and glorify God, and give him occasion to magnify us too? or to do that which will provoke him to be angry with us till we be consumed, and then laugh at our calamity? Prov. 1.26, 27.
The H•athen Moralist (Seneca) ventur'd to say, That if there were any spectacle here below noble enough, and worthy to entertain the eyes of God, it was that of a good man generously contending with ill fortune (as they used to phrase) afflictions and sufferings. But now, when men sin, he laughs them to scorn, if his sons and daughters sin, it provokes him to grieve and be angry; but the sins of others provoke him to laugh at and to hate them, Psal. 2.4, 5 Psal. 37.13. and which is better to suffer and please, or to sin and grieve God? to undergo that which by patient suffering of it, will rejoyce and glorifie God, and give him occasion to magnifie us too? or to do that which will provoke him to be angry with us till we be consumed, and then laugh at our calamity? Prov. 1.26, 27.