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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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SIN, THE PLAGUE of PLAGUES; OR Sinful Sin the worst of Evils. › Of sins contrariety to God.
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3. Sin is contrary to the works of God; 3as it works contrary unto God, so its contrary to Gods works, and is called the work of the devil, 1 Jo. 3.8. all Gods works were good exceedingly, beautiful even to admiration, but the works of sin are deformed, and monstrously ugly, for it works disorder, confusion, and every thing that's abominable: Sin may be impleaded for all the mischiefs and villainies that have been done in the world; 'tis the Master of Mis-rule, the Author of Sedition, the Builder of Babel, the Troubler of Israel; and all mankind. And so contrary is sin to the works of God, that it sought and still seeks to undo all that God doth, that there might be no seed, nor name, nor root left him in the earth: Every thing works according to its nature (operari sequitur esse) as the root is, so is the fruit, and by that every Tree is known, whither it be a good Tree or a bad, Mat. 7.17, 18. God is good, and doth good, Psa. 119.68. Sin is evil, and doth evil, yea nothing else; so that sin and its works are contrary to God and his works.
3. Sin is contrary to the works of God; 3as it works contrary unto God, so its contrary to Gods works, and is called the work of the devil, 1 Jo. 3.8. all Gods works were good exceedingly, beautiful even to admiration, but the works of sin are deformed, and monstrously ugly, for it works disorder, confusion, and every thing that's abominable: Sin may be impleaded for all the mischiefs and villanies that have been done in the world; 'tis the Master of Mis-rule, the Author of Sedition, the Builder of Babel, the Troubler of Israel; and all mankind. And so contrary is sin to the works of God, that it sought and still seeks to undo all that God doth, that there might be no seed, nor name, nor root left him in the earth: Every thing works according to its nature (operari sequitur esse) as the root is, so is the fruit, and by that every Tree is known, whither it be a good Tree or a bad, Mat. 7.17, 18. God is good, and doth good,