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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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3. There are many blessed encouragements given us to suffering, none to sin, but all manner of discouragements against sinning: all encouragement and no discouragement to suffering; all discouragement and no encouragement to sin. As, when we suffer for God, God suffers with us; but when we sin, God suffers by us: In all their (his peoples) afflictions he was afflicted, he sympathized with them, Isa. 63.9. Heb. ⟨p. 218⟩4.15. but when he speaks of sin, 'tis Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Sauls sin persecuted Christ Jesus, Acts 9.4. God complains of their iniquity, as a burden, as if they made a Cart of God, and loaded him with sins as with sheaves, Amos 2.13.
3. There are many blessed incouragements given us to suffering, none to sin, but all manner of discouragements against sinning: all incouragement and no discouragement to suffering; all discouragement and no incouragement to sin. As, when we suffer for God, God suffers with us; but when we sin, God suffers by us: In all their (his peoples) afflictions he was afflicted, he sympathized with them, Isa. 63.9. Heb. ⟨p. 218⟩4.15. but when he speaks of sin, 'tis Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? Sauls sin persecuted Christ Jesus, Acts 9.4. God complains of their iniquity, as a burden, as if they made a Cart of God, and loaded him with sins as with sheaves, Amos 2.13.