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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. Take heed of sins of Commission.
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.
2. Take heed of putting men off, and paying them with false and unlawful money; as you should not buy stolen and unlawful goods, so you should not pay unlawful money, that which you would not take, and know that others will not receive, if it be discerned: The children of Abraham should be like him, who when he had bought, he weighed or told out his silver, current money with the Merchant, Gen. 23.16. And this sin is so much the worse (viz. paying of brass and uncurrent money) because it usually falls into the hands of the poor, who can least discern, and suffer most by the receiving of it; do as you would be done unto, and do not pay that which is not payment, but an abuse and wrong.
2. Take heed of putting men off, and paying them with false and unlawful money; as you should not buy stollen and unlawful goods, so you should not pay unlawful money, that which you would not take, and know that others will not receive, if it be discerned: The children of Abraham should be like him, who when he had bought, he weighed or told out his silver, current money with the Merchant, Gen. 23.16. And this sin is so much the worse (viz. paying of brass and uncurrent money) because it usually falls into the hands of the poor, who can least discern, and suffer most by the receiving of it; do as you would be done unto, and do not pay that which is not payment, but an abuse and wrong.
3. Use not false weights or measures, nor keep your books falsely: take heed of writing down more then was delivered or bargained for, or writing greater prices then were agreed upon. As to false weights and measures, they ⟨p. 323⟩are utterly forbidden, Levit. 19.35, 36. and