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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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Yet further, That which men call the Pleasure of sin, is both their dy•• and punishment: many laugh, and are merry from the sickliness and distemper they are under, as they say of them that are bitten by the Tarantula, they laugh themselves to death: Some are such ticklish things, that they will laugh at the wagging of a feather; but this is an Argument of their weakness and folly, two ill diseases. Many persons take pleasure in eating lime, mortar, coals, and such like trash, but 'tis from a disease which vitiates and corrupts their palate, else they would not feed on ashes, had they not the Greensickness disease: so whoever pretends to find pleasure in sin, proves himself distempered and diseased, and under the old radicated disease of being in sins, yea, dead in them.
Yet further, That which men call the Pleasure of sin, is both their dy•• and punishment: many laugh, and are merry from the sickliness and distemper they are under, as they say of them that are bitten by the Tarantula, they laugh themselves to death: Some are such ticklish things, that they will laugh at the wagging of a feather; but this is an Argument of their weakness and folly, two ill diseases. Many persons take pleasure in eating lime, mortar, coals, and such like trash, but 'tis from a disease which vitiates and corrupts their palate, else they would not feed on ashes, had they not the Greensickness disease: so whoever pretends to find pleasure in sin, proves himself distemper'd and diseased, and under the old radicated disease of being in sins, yea, dead in them.
'Tis as a disease, so a punishment, because 'tis false pleasure, and what truer misery then false joy? 'tis like his pleasure who receives much money, but 'tis all false coin; or his who dreams of a feast, and awakes so bungry and vexed, that he could eat his dream; and on this account sin should be doubly bated, because ugly, and because false, because it defiles, and because it mocks us. But,
'Tis as a disease, so a punishment, because 'tis false pleasure, and what truer misery then false joy? 'tis like his pleasure who receives much money, but 'tis all false coyn; or his who dreams of a feast, and awakes so bungry and vext, that he could eat his dream; and on this account sin should be doubly bated, because ugly, and because false, because it defiles, and because it mocks us. But,