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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
SIN, THE PLAGUE of PLAGUES; OR Sinful Sin the worst of Evils. › Of sins contrariety to God.
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.
4. Sin is contrary to the Law and Will of God, 4yea to all the rules and orders of his appointment: There is not one of his Laws which it hath not broken, and endeavoured to make void, and of none effect; yea, 'tis not only a transgression of, but a contradiction also to the Will of God: When the Son of God came into the world to declare and do his Fathers Will, he was encountered by and under-went the contradiction of ⟨p. 14⟩sinners, Hebr. 12.3. who would have made men believe, that neither he nor his Doctrine was of God. 'Tis an Anti-will to Gods Will; it sets it self to oppose preaching, prayer, and all the Institutions of God, and that not only out of envy to man, that he should not be the better for them, but out of enmity to God, that he should not be worshipped in the world. Now to act contrary to the will and Statutes of God, is to act contrary to God himself; as may be seen by comparing Levit. 26.14, 15. with 21, 23, 27. and many other places. David in fulfilling the Will of God, was said to be a man after Gods own heart, Acts 13.22. and they that obey the will of sin, are said to walk after the heart of sin, Ezek. 11.21,
4. Sin is contrary to the Law and Will of God, 4yea to all the rules and orders of his appointment: There is not one of his Laws which it hath not broken, and endeavoured to make void, and of none effect; yea, 'tis not only a transgrestion of, but a contradiction also to the Will of God: When the Son of God came into the world to declare and do his Fathers Will, he was encountred by and under-went the contradiction of ⟨p. 14⟩sinners,