A64834:457
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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4 Suffering, though for sin, is designed to cure us, and kill sin; surely the remedy is better then the disease; but sin kills us, and doth strengthen sin: they that add sin to sin, feed it, give it nourishment, and new life, and strength, its adding fuel to the fire, which sufferings are to quench and put out.
4 Suffering, though for sin, is designed to cure us, and kill sin; surely the remedy is better then the disease; but sin kills us, and doth strengthen sin: they that adde sin to sin, feed it, give it nourishment, and new life, and strength, its adding fuel to the fire, which sufferings are to quench and put out.
Psal. 119.71. 'Twas good for •e that I was afflicted, why? because before I was afflicted I went astray; affliction is better then going astray: the fruit is the taking away of sin, Isa. 27.9. yea, to make us partakers of his Holiness, Heb. 12.10. which is the end of the greatest promises, 2 Pet 1.4. 2 Cor. 7.1. So that God aims at the same thing in bringing threatened evils on us, as in making good promises, and making them good to us: Is not this better then sin, did that ever do such kindnesses for us? A as, its mercies are cruelties, its courtesies are injuries, its kindnesses are killing ([Greek or Hebrew], Sic notus Ulysses?) it never did (nor meant) us any good, unless men be so mad to think, that 'tis good to be defiled, dishonoured, and damned!
Psal. 119.71. 'Twas good for •e that I was afflicted, why? because before I was afflicted I went astray; affliction is better then going astray: the fruit is the taking away of sin,