A64834:502
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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'Tis against God in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways, on which account we should glorify him, Dan. 5.23. he hath our being and well-being at his dispose, he can crush us as the moth, and turn us not only to the dust, but to the hell of death: what he doth for us, and what he can do against us, do hugely and strongly oblige us not to sin against him: We are beholden to him for all the good we have: that nakedness which had once a Reverence, ⟨p. 241⟩paid it from the creatures, would now be a scorn to them, if God did not clothe it: the creatures would not serve us, nor be serviceable to us, if God did not command and bless them; for bread we should have none, or no good by it, if he did not provide and bless it: what could weak things do to strengthen? or dead things do to keep us alive, did not his Word do more then they? we live not by bread, but by his Word. If God should deny us bread by day, or sleep by night, what would become of us? Oh how can we find it in our heart to sin against God! There are two great wonders; the one, that God should be so good to man, who is, and doth evil against him: the other, that man should do evil against so good a God! O foolish people, and unwise, thus to requite the Lord!
'Tis against God in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways, on which account we should glorifie him, Dan. 5.23. he hath our being and well-being at his dispose, he can crush us as the moth, and turn us not only to the dust, but to the hell of death: what he doth for us, and what he can do against us, do hugely and strongly oblige us not to sin against him: We are beholden to him for all the good we have: that nakedness which had once a Reverence, ⟨p. 241⟩paid it from the creatures, would now be a scorn to them, if God did not cloath it: the creatures would not serve us, nor be serviceable to us, if God did not command and bless them; for bread we should have none, or no good by it, if he did not provide and bless it: what could weak things do to strengthen? or dead things do to keep us alive, did not his Word do more then they? we live not by bread, but by his Word. If God should deny us bread by day, or sleep by night, what would become of us? Oh how can we find it in our heart to sin against God! There are two great wonders; the one, that God should be so good to man, who is, and doth evil against him: the other, that man should do evil against so good a God! O foolish people, and unwise, thus to requite the Lord!