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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Upon the whole then, the inference is undeniable, that there is no good (of profit, honour, or pleasure) to be had by sin, and that they who seek for all or any of them there, do as they that would seek case in Hell, the very place and Element of torment. If good be not good, when better is expected, how miserably vexatious must the disappointment be? when men look for good and peace, but behold evil and trouble (yea, and nothing else) comes upon them: when they bless themselves, and say (as, Deut. 29.19.) we shall have peace, though we walk in the imaginations of our heart, to add drunkenness to thirst, the Lord will not spare them, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against them; and when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction will come upon them (as travel upon a woman with child) and there will be no escaping, 1 Thes. 5.3.
Upon the whole then, the inference is undeniable, that there is no good (of profit, honour, or pleasure) to be had by sin, and that they who seek for all or any of them there, do as they that would seek case in Hell, the very place and Element of torment. If good be not good, when better is expected, how miserably vexatious must the disappointment be? when men look for good and peace, but behold evil and trouble (yea, and nothing else) comes upon them: when they bless themselves, and say (as, Deut. 29.19.) we shall have peace, though we walk in the imaginations of our heart, to add drunkenness to thirst, the Lord will not spare them, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousie shall smoak against them; and when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction will come upon them (as travel upon a woman with child) and there will be no escaping, 1 Thes. 5.3.