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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. › 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.
1 Sin is against the good of mans body; 1it hath corrupted mans blood, and made his body mortal, and thereby rendered it a vile body: our bodies, though made of dust, were yet more precious then the fine gold; but when we sinned, they became vile bodies: before sin our bodies were immortal (for death and mortality came in by sin) but now alas they must return to dust, and its appointed to all men once to die, (and 'tis well if they die but once, and the second death have no power over them) they must see corruption, or death in equivalence, i.e. a change; for this flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God (as that wherein we were ⟨p. 22⟩created might possibly have done) 1 Cor. 15.50. Our body is sown in corruption, in dishonour, in weakness, 1 Cor. 15.42, 43. and is therefore called vile, Philip. 3.21. and before this body be laid in the grave, 'tis languishing, in a continual Consumption, and dying daily, besides all the dangers that attend it from without. And
1 Sin is against the good of mans body; 1it hath corrupted mans blood, and made his body mortal, and thereby render'd it a vile body: our bodies, though made of dust, were yet more precious then the fine gold; but when we sinned, they became vile bodies: before sin our bodies were immortal (for death and mortality came in by sin) but now alas they must return to dust, and its appointed to all men once to die, (and 'tis well if they die but once, and the second death have no power over them) they must see corruption, or death in equivalence, i.e. a change; for this flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdome of God (as that wherein we were ⟨p. 22⟩created might possibly have done)