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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. › Sins contrariety to Man.
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.
Sins contrariety to Man.
The second thing wherein the sinfulness of sin doth consist, 2is its contrariety to the good of Man, which is the thing that our Text doth especially meant on and intend, and is therefore to be the more copiously spoken to: Sin is contrary to the good of man, and nothing is properly •nd absolutely so but sin, and this results and is ⟨p. 20⟩evident from sins contrariety to God: as there is nothing contrary to God but sin, (for Devils are not so but by sin) so sin in being contrary to God, is and cannot but be contrary to man; that must he unavoidably evil to man, that's evil against God, who is the chiefest good of man; communion with, and conformity to God, is mans felicity, his heaven upon earth, and in heaven too, without which it would not be worth his while to have a being: Now sin being a separation between God and Man, an interruption of this communion and conformity, it must needs be prejudicial and hurtful to him. Beside, the Commandment (of which sin is a transgression) was given not only for Gods sake, that he might have glory from mans obedience, but for Mans sake, that man might enjoy the good and benefit of his obedience, and find that in keeping the Commands of God there is great reward. These two were twisted together, and no sooner is the Law transgressed, but God and Man are joint-sufferers, God in his glory, and Man in his good Mans suffering follows at the heel of sin, yea, as he suffers by, so in sinning; suffering and sinning involve each other: No sooner did sin enter into the world, but death (which is a privation o• good did enter by it, with it, and in it, for 'tis the sting of death; so that sin saith, here its death, and death saith, here is sin: No soone• did Angels sin, but they fell from their first estate and habitation which they had with God in glory, not a moment between their sin and misery and as soon as man had sinned, his conscien•• told him, that he was naked and destitute o