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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.
5. §51Take heed of such sins as the world call Peccadillos, little sins: some men account great sins to be but little ones, and little ones to be none or very venial: say they, what hurt is there in an innocent lye, or a pious fraud? Alas, ⟨p. 328⟩what a contradiction is this, can a lye be innocent, and fraud pious? Woe be to them that call evil good, and join good and evil, as if they were one, or agreed in one. Oh, saith another, 'tis but a trick of youth; I, but 'tis such a trick as may cost thee a going to Hell. Another deceives his neighbour, and (laughing while he strikes) says, am not I in sport? Prov. 26.19. Ah, but he that sins in jest, or makes a jest of sin, may be damned in earnest. Consider,
5. §51Take heed of such sins as the world call Peccadillos, little sins: some men account great sins to be but little ones, and little ones to be none or very venial: say they, what hurt is there in an innocent lye, or a pious fraud? Alas, ⟨p. 328⟩what a contradiction is this, can a lye be innocent, and fraud pious? Wo be to them that call evil good, and joyn good and evil, as if they were one, or agreed in one. Oh, saith another, 'tis but a trick of youth; I, but 'tis such a trick as may cost thee a going to Hell. Another deceives his neighbour, and (laughing while he strikes) says, am not I in sport? Prov. 26.19. Ah, but he that sins in jest, or makes a jest of sin, may be damned in earnest. Consider,
- 1Of little sins.