A64834:591
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. › 3. Caution against Deed-sins.
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.
The third thing I am to dehort from, and ⟨p. 303⟩caution against, is living in the practice of any sin; yet before I directly speak thereunto, I crave leave to say some things about and against sins of omission, a thing too seldom treated or taken notice of, though scarce any guilt more common.
I shall therefore dehort 1. From sins of Omission. 2. From sins of Commission
1. Take heed of sins of Omission; §11it is a sin to omit what good is commanded, as well (or ill) as to commit what evil is forbidden, not to do what we ought, as to do what we ought not. We are not only to eschew evil, but to do good also, 1 Pet. 3.11. and I the rather insist a little hereon, because many are more apt and prone to omit Duties, to be neglectful of doing good, then to commit (especially) gross and palpable evils; and withal, to look upon it as a less evil, if any at all, there being so many (though but trifling) excuses ready for it, as you may see, Luke 14.18, 19, 20. I beseech you therefore to consider these things.
- 1Of sins of Omission.