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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.
3. By lying to men in the Name of the Lord, as the old Prophet did to the young, 1 Kings 13.18. The Name of the Lord is a great Argument, and very taking with them that fear him, and therefore some (false Prophets) pretend it, and turn themselves into Angels of light, though they be of the Devil, and quote Gods authority, as he had the impudence to do (though falsely) to our Saviour himself, Mat. 4.3, 4. This is a shrewd way of temptation.
4. By giving undecent language, and offering affronts to persons. Some men have lavish tongues, and can hardly answer without a thou lyest, &c. such is their pride and passion, that they answer rudely, and give such ill language, as would anger a Saint, as the saying is. Persons of Quality and Honour that are used to, and deserve Civility, will not bear such provoking words, ⟨p. 340⟩nor take them but on the point of their Rapier, and return it to the givers throat. Great sins are committed from such beginnings; therefore Solomon tells us, Prov. 15.1. that a soft answer turneth away wrath, as it did Judg. 8.2, 3. but grievous (and fierce) words stir up anger, as they did 2 Sam. 19.43. compared with Chap: 20.1. God will not allow Parents to provoke their children to wrath, Eph. 6.4. As unhandsome words, so ill and ill-becoming behaviours, abuses, and affronts tempt men to sin; when Jacobs Sons had deceived, and by it slew the Sichemites (as the Law did Paul, for so he speaks,