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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. › 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. We may be the occasion of other mens sins by counselling them to sin; they that cannot command, may counsel, which is next to it: 'tis recorded three times in one Chapter, in three successive verses, that Ahaziah walked in the ways of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, by the counsel of Athaliah, and the house of Ahab, to his destruction, 2 Chron. 22.3, 4, 5. So Amnon sinned according to the counsel of Jonadab, 2 Sam. 13.5.6. Jonadab is called his friend, and friends use to take sweet counsel together; but, Oh, what bitter counsel is wicked counsel! never counsel any to sin under the pretence of friendship, 'tis killing kindness, and as Rebekah told Jacob when she counselled him to lye and counterfeit, that upon her should the curse be, Gen. 27.6-13. So say I to thee, the curse will be on thee.
2. We may be the occasion of other mens sins by counselling them to sin; they that cannot command, may counsel, which is next to it: 'tis recorded three times in one Chapter, in three successive verses, that Ahaziah walked in the ways of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the Lord, by the counsel of Athaliah, and the house of Ahab, to his destruction, 2 Chron. 22.3, 4, 5. So Amnon sinned according to the counsel of Jonadab, 2 Sam. 13.5.6. Jonadab is called his friend, and friends use to take sweet counsel together; but, Oh, what bitter counsel is wicked counsel! never counsel any to sin under the pretence of friendship, 'tis killing kindness, and as Rebeccah told Jacob when she counselled him to lye and counterfeit, that upon her should the curse be, Gen. 27.6-13. So say I to thee, the curse will be on thee.