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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. › 2. Against sinful Words.
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.
censuring of Superiors, or despising of Inferiors! what empty and ridiculous, if not frothy discourses (that excite to carnality) are the common entertainments, even among them that pretend to better things! what's such company and converse good for, but to quench zeal and fervency, yea, the ready way to lose credit and good name; and if not innocency, yet always time, which is too precious to be squandered away and lost, much more to be sinned away! Shall a man of much talk be justified, Job 11.2. Oh no, much talk is full of folly; for a dream cometh through a multitude of business, and a fools voice is known by multitude of words, Eccl. 5.3. and in the multitude of dreams and many words, are divers vanities; but fear thou God, vers. 7. as if multitude of words were inconsistent with the fear of God; for to that purpose the words sound. We cannot well speak too little, unless we speak by command from God, and in obedience to it. Therefore,
censuring of Superiors, or despising of Inferiors! what empty and ridiculous, if not frothy discourses (that excite to carnality) are the common entertainments, even among them that pretend to better things! what's such company and converse good for, but to quench zeal and fervency, yea, the ready way to lose credit and good name; and if not innocency, yet always time, which is too precious to be squander'd away and lost, much more to be sinned away! Shall a man of much talk be justified, Job 11.2. Oh no, much talk is full of folly; for a dream cometh through a multitude of business, and a fools voice is known by multitude of words, Eccl. 5.3. and in the multitude of dreams and many words, are divers vanities; but fear thou God, vers. 7. as if multitude of words were inconsistent with the fear of God; for to that purpose the words sound. We cannot well speak too little, unless we speak by command from God, and in obedience to it. Therefore,