A64834:631
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.
Beside, this way men are confirmed and hardened in their wickedness; where all go naked, none are ashamed; examples and company steel men in their sins, who were Iron enough of themselves; and sometimes emboldens them who were modest and tender before, as 1 Cor. 8.10. If any see thee, who hast knowledge, sit at meat in the Idols Temple, shall not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldened? the Greek is, edified or built; he takes it for a good example, and makes a kind of conscience to do ⟨p. 334⟩so too, as if thou hadst instructed him to edification, when, alas, 'tis edification only to the wounding and endangering of his perishing, as it follows vers. 11.12. and ye sin against Christ Jesus, as he also doth; for thou makest him to offend, vers. 13.
Beside, this way men are confirmed and hardned in their wickedness; where all go naked, none are ashamed; examples and company steel men in their sins, who were Iron enough of themselves; and sometimes emboldens them who were modest and tender before, as 1 Cor. 8.10. If any see thee, who hast knowledge, sit at meat in the Idols Temple, shall not the conscience of him that is weak be emboldned? the Greek is, edified or built; he takes it for a good example, and makes a kind of conscience to do ⟨p. 334⟩so too, as if thou hadst instructed him to edification, when, alas, 'tis edification only to the wounding and endangering of his perishing, as it follows vers. 11.12. and ye sin against Christ Jesus, as he also doth; for thou makest him to offend, vers. 13.
So that hereby we become guilty of other mens sins, and we are like sooner or later to resent and regret this very grievously; yea (though we our selves may be saved at last) 'twill certainly pain us to think that any went to Hell, in whose sins we had an head or hand, and it may be an heart. Beside, 'tis very usual, that we partake of their plagues, whose sins we partake of, which no less then a voice from Heaven gives us warning,