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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
SIN, THE PLAGUE of PLAGUES; OR Sinful Sin the worst of Evils. › Of sins contrariety to God.
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Of sins contrariety to God.
1. 1Then the sinfulness of sin not only appears by, but consists in this, that 'tis contrary to God, yea contrariety and enmity it self in the very abstract: Carnal men, or sinners, are called by the name of enemies to God, Rom 5.8. with 10. Col. 1.21. but the carnal mind or sin is called enmity it self, Rom. 8.7. and accordingly it and its acts are expressed by names of enmity, and acts of hostility; as walking contrary to God, Levit. 26.21. rebelling against God, Is. 1.2. rising up against him as an enemy, Mich. 2.8. striving and contending with God, Is. 45.9. despising of God, Numb. 11.20. it makes men haters of God, Rom. 1.30. resisters of God, Acts 7.51. fighters against God, Acts 5.39 and 23.9. yea blasphemers of God, and in sine very Atheists, that they say there is no God, Psal. 14.1. it goes about to ungod God, and is by some of the Ancients called Deicidium, God-murder, or God-killing. And though all these things be ⟨p. 10⟩not acted by every sinful man, yet they are not only in the nature of sin, yea of every sin, more or less, but are all of them in the heart of all sinners (in their seed and root)