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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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5. It proves Sin the worst and greatest of Evils, that Christ is the best and greatest of Saviours, and his Salvation the best and greatest Salvation: he came to save sinners, and to save them, not from the petty evils of sickness, affliction, and perfection, but from sin, the greatest of all evils. Math. 1.21. 1 Tim. 1.15. To be saved from Egypt was of old reckoned great; but being delivered out of the North, was a greater Salvation, Jer. 23.8. but Salvation from Sin is the greatest Salvation, and therefore Sin the worst and greatest of Evils.
Having thus evinced Sin to be the worst of Evils, 1the Evil of Evils, none to be compared to it for evil; I shall now apply it more distinctly, and show what we are to inter From the sinfulness of Sin, §12as 'tis 1. Against God. 2. Against Man.
Having thus evinced Sin to be the worst of Evils, 1the Evil of Evils, none to be compared to it for evil; I shall now apply it more distinctly, and shew what we are to inter From the sinfulness of Sin, §12as 'tis 1. Against God. 2. Against Man.
- 1•n being against God, infers: