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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
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SIN, THE PLAGUE of PLAGUES; OR Sinful Sin the worst of Evils. › 3. Caution against Deed-sins.
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2. Yet generally, and for the most part, 'tis a great affliction to good and godly men to be forced to omit, and to be constrained to be absent from Duties, though the omission of them (at such a time, and in such a case) be no sin of theirs, as in time of sickness, or in case of flight: how doth David mourn while in the wilderness (being persecuted and driven there) how doth be lament his absence from the Assemblies of them that kept Holy-day, Psal. 42.1-4. Though God in cases of such necessity dispense with his Sabbath, and consequently his instituted Worship on that day; yet holy men lament this necessity, and mourn that they are restrained from bearing a part with others, and forced to do that which else were not lawful to do on a Sabbath-day: and 'tis on this account (not to exclude others) that (as I conceive) our Saviour bid the Disciples pray, that their flight might not be on the Sabbath-day, Mat. 24.20. For the usual ⟨p. 305⟩Ordinances of the day could not be enjoyed, nor the ordinary Duties of the day practised and performed. But,
2. Yet generally, and for the most part, 'tis a great affliction to good and godly men to be forced to omit, and to be constrained to be absent from Duties, though the omission of them (at such a time, and in such a case) be no sin of theirs, as in time of sickness, or in case of flight: how doth David mourn while in the wilderness (being persecuted and driven there) how doth be lament his absence from the Assemblies of them that kept Holy-day, Psal. 42.1-4. Though God in cases of such necessity dispense with his Sabbath, and consequently his instituted Worship on that day; yet holy men lament this necessity, and mourn that they are restrained from bearing a part with others, and forced to do that which else were not lawful to do on a Sabbath-day: and 'tis on this account (not to exclude others) that (as I conceive) our Saviour bid the Disciples pray, that their flight might not be on the Sabbath-day, Mat. 24.20. For the usual ⟨p. 305⟩