A64834:636
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.
3. By Example; and the more eminent the example, the more taking 'tis: Great men cannot sin at a little or low rate, because they are examples; the sins of Commanders, are commanding sins; sins of Rulers, ruling sins; sins of Teachers, teaching sins: there is a kind of ⟨p. 338⟩sorcery and bewitchingness goes along with such examples, Gal. 2.12, 13. When Peter and the rest of the Jews dissembled with him, Barnabas (though a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost, Acts 11.24. yet) he also was carried away with (by the example of, and in compliance with) their dissimulation; so that example which I newly spake to, is instanced in as very catching and infectious, 1 Cor. 8.10. The world is more easily exampled into sin then into goodness; for sin finds a party within. Abraham's Faith, Moses Meekness, Jobs Patience, Peters Courage are not so easily followed, as their contraries. Give no ill Examples.
3. By Example; and the more eminent the example, the more taking 'tis: Great men cannot sin at a little or low rate, because they are examples; the sins of Commanders, are commanding sins; sins of Rulers, ruling sins; sins of Teachers, teaching sins: there is a kind of ⟨p. 338⟩sorcery and bewitchingness goes along with such examples, Gal. 2.12, 13. When Peter and the rest of the Jews dissembled with him, Barnabas (though a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost, Acts 11.24. yet) he also was carried away with (by the example of, and in compliance with) their dissimulation; so that example which I newly spake to, is instanced in as very catching and infectious, 1 Cor. 8.10. The world is more easily exampled into sin then into goodness; for sin finds a party within. Abrahams Faith, Moses Meekness, Jobs Patience, Peters Courage are not so easily followed, as their contraries. Give no ill Examples.