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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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4. Sin is the worst of Evils, as appears by this, that God hates men for it; 'tis not only sin, Prov. 6.16.19. but sinners that God hates, and that for sin: Psal. 5.5. 'tis said of God, that be hates the workers of iniquity, not only the works of iniquity, but the workers of it: hatred is not known by judgments, the evil of suffering, ⟨p. 228⟩but 'tis known by the evil of sin which is before us, Eccl. 9 1, 2. 'tis for this that the merciful God saith, he that made them will not have mercy on them, nor show them any favour, Isa. 27 11. and as a Learned person expresseth it, This is the highest that can be spoken of the venom of sin, that in a sort, and to speak after the manner of men, it hath put hatred into God himself, it made the Lord hate and destroy his own workmanship. God is Love, and Judgment his strange work; yet sin makes him out of love with men, and in love with their destruction at last; so though he delight not in the death of a repenting, yet he doth in the death of an impenitent sinner.
4. Sin is the worst of Evils, as appears by this, that God hates men for it; 'tis not only sin, Prov. 6.16.19. but sinners that God hates, and that for sin: Psal. 5.5. 'tis said of God, that be hates the workers of iniquity, not only the works of iniquity, but the workers of it: hatred is not known by judgments, the evil of suffering, ⟨p. 228⟩but 'tis known by the evil of sin which is before us, Eccl. 9 1, 2. 'tis for this that the merciful God saith, he that made them will not have mercy on them, nor shew them any favour,