A64834:578
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. › 2. Against sinful Words.
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1. That sinful words are wholly forbidden us, and the contrary to them are enjoined us; God hath told us what we shall not, and what we shall say, what words we ought not, and what we ought to use. For the Negative; let no corrupt, or filthy, and rotten, unsavoury communication (no kind of it, no degree of it) proceed out of your mouth; but (affirmatively) that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the Hearers, Eph. 4.29. so again, Chap. 5.3, 4. but fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, filthiness, foolish talking, and scurrilous jesting and gibing, let it not be named, i. e. let not these be subject and matter of your discourse and talk; but giving of thanks, or that which is graceful and thankworthy, fit to season and edify others by ministering grace to them, as 'twas said before: and again, Col. 4.6. let your speech be always with grace, let it be as becometh Saints, graceful and comely, seasoned and savoury, that which may not defile any, but edify all: Though a Christian be not always to talk of grace, yet he is always to talk so, as to show himself a gracious person. Our ⟨p. 293⟩very Table-talk, as well as our meat, should be seasoned with salt, it should be with the first and second course; for salt is the first put on, and the last taken off, that all may be seasoned and savoury, and so should all our discourse be, and not like salt that hath lost its savour, which is not good, no not for the dunghill, Luke 14.35.
1. That sinful words are wholly forbidden us, and the contrary to them are injoyned us; God hath told us what we shall not, and what we shall say, what words we ought not, and what we ought to use. For the Negative; let no corrupt, or filthy, and rotten, unsavory communication (no kind of it, no degree of it) proceed out of your mouth; but (affirmatively) that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the Hearers, Eph. 4.29. so again, Chap. 5.3, 4. but fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, filthiness, foolish talking, and scurrilous jesting and gibing, let it not be named, i. e. let not these be subject and matter of your discourse and talk; but giving of thanks, or that which is graceful and thankworthy, fit to season and edifie others by ministring grace to them, as 'twas said before: and again,