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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. Sufferings tend to make us perfect, but sin makes us more and more imperfect. The second Adam was perfected by suffering, Heb. 2.10. •u the first Adam was made imperfect by sinning; and thus it fares with both their seeds and children as it did with them, a sinner and without strength, Rom. 5.6. a sinner and without God, without Christ, without hope, &c Eph. 2.12. But a sufferer after a while […] be perfected by the same God of all grace, who hath called him into eternal glory by Christ Jesus (a•d after his example) 1 Pet. 5.10. but the more a sinner, the more imperfect, and fitter for Hell.
5. Sufferings tend to make us perfect, but sin makes us more and more imperfect. The second Adam was perfected by suffering, Heb. 2.10. •u the first Adam was made imperfect by sinning; and thus it fares with both their seeds and children as it did with them, a sinner and without strength, Rom. 5.6. a sinner and without God, without Christ, without hope, &c Eph. 2.12. But a sufferer after a while 〈…〉 be perfected by the same God of all grace, who hath called him into eternal glory by Christ Jesus (a•d after his example) 1 Pet. 5.10. but the more a sinner, the more imperfect, and fitter for Hell.