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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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2. §21That sin is worse then death: we use to say, of two evils choose the least, now to dye is more cheap and easy then to sin: as Gods lovingkindness is better then life, we had better part with this then that; so sin is worse then death, we had better undergo this, then do that, better submit to death, then commit sin, as I hinted before from Mat. 10.28. But let us compare them.
2. §21That sin is worse then death: we use to say, of two evils chuse the least, now to dye is more cheap and easie then to sin: as Gods lovingkindness is better then life, we had better part with this then that; so sin is worse then death, we had better undergo this, then do that, better submit to death, then commit sin, as I hinted before from Mat. 10.28. But let us compare them.
- 1Sin is worse then death.
Sin is more deadly then death, viz. the separation of soul and body, the dissolution of Natures frame and the union thereof: this (which we call Death) is apprehended as a great evil, as appears by mans unwillingness to dye; men will live in sickness and pain, they will be in deaths often rather then dye once: and 'tis not only an evil in apprehension, but 'tis really so to humane Nature, for 'tis called an enemy, 1 Cor. 15.26. 'Tis true, death is a friend to grace; but 'tis as true that death is an enemy to nature; and there are four things in which death is evil, and an enemy to man, and in all these respects, sin is more an enemy to man then death.