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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. §21Take heed of being partners in others sins when they are committed, as co-helpers and concauses of their production. You may partake of other mens sins, 1. As instruments to execute others sinful designs or commands, as Doeg was in executing the Priests, 1 Sam. 22. or as any others are, that serve the lusts of men. All persons that are to be obeyed, (as father and mother, &c.) they are to be obeyed in the Lord, Eph. 6.1. Whose ever will be left undone, Gods will should be done, and never left undone to fulfil that of another or our own. They that put unrighteous Decrees in execution, are under the same woe with them who decree them; for without the execution, the Decree would do no hurt to them against whom 'twere made, Isa. 10.1.3. They are wicked, and partners in the wickedness of them that command wickedness, who put such wicked commands in practice and execution. See 1 Kings 12.30. though it be light, or fall heaviest on them that command.
2. §21Take heed of being partners in others sins when they are committed, as co-helpers and concauses of their production. You may partake of other mens sins, 1. As instruments to execute others sinful designs or commands, as Doeg was in executing the Priests, 1 Sam. 22. or as any others are, that serve the lusts of men. All persons that are to be obeyed, (as father and mother, &c.) they are to be obeyed in the Lord, Eph. 6.1. Whose ever will be left undone, Gods will should be done, and never left undone to fulfil that of another or our own. They that put unrighteous Decrees in execution, are under the same wo with them who decree them; for without the execution, the Decree would do no hurt to them against whom 'twere made,