A64834:629
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. › 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.
7. §71Take heed of the occasions and very appearances of this evil, Sin: abstain not only from apparent evils, but from the (yea from all and every the) appearances of evil, 1 Thes. 5.22. do not be so irreligious as to go into temptation, when thou hast been so religious as to pray God, not to lead thee into temptation; this is mock-prayer; keep out of harms way, Prov. 4.14, 15. enter not (put not a foot) into the way of the wicked; if thou have been so foolishly forward, yet go not on in the way of evil men; but avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away: you cannot stand at too great a distance from sin; if you will not sit in the seat of the scornful, do not stand in the way of sinners, nor walk in the counsel of the ungodly, Psal. 1.1. touch not pitch, lest ye be defiled; gaze not (like one enamoured) on the wine, when it looks well, and danceth in the glass; make a ⟨p. 332⟩Covenant with thine eyes, lest by looking too much on beauty, thine eyes become sore and sinful. Abhor not only the flesh or the spot, but the very garment that is but spotted with the flesh, Jude 23. yea, abstain from what's inexpedient (as well as from what's unlawful) for in being inexpedient (as such, and then) it is unlawful: if it be not a sin, yet if it (be malè coloratum and) look like a sin, beware of it. 'Tis next to being a sinner, to be like one; to being proud and wanton, to seem so, or look so: an appearance of good is too little, but an appearance of evil is too much: 'tis the Hypocrites sin, that he appears better then he is, and it may be a good mans evil to appear worse then he is: a rod is for the back of fools, and 'twill be laid on a wise mans, if found in a fools coat.
7. §71Take heed of the occasions and very appearances of this evil, Sin: abstain not only from apparent evils, but from the (yea from all and every the) appearances of evil,