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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.
2. As Confederates with others; though the sin be not committed by you that are Confederates, yet your being such, takes part of (because with) their sin, Psal. 83.3-9. the Counsellors and Combiners are judged equally with the Practisers. Blessed are they that walk not in the counsel of the ungodly, Psal. 1.1. And saith the Prophet, The Lord spake to me with a strong hand, not simply the Word of the Lord came to me, or the Lord spake to me, but he spake with a strong hand, what? why, say not a confederacy with them that say a confederacy, Isa. 8.11, 12. The men of the League and ⟨p. 343⟩Association speed (because they sin) alike, Psal. 2. with Acts 4.26-28.
3. As Consenters, giving your consent to others sin, which if you had denied, it may be, they had not sinned, Psal. 50.18. when thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, and wert partaker with the adulterer; an adulterer is a thief (he steals waters from another's cistern) and to consent with him, is to be a partaker: therefore, Prov. 1.10. if sinners entice thee, consent not; enter thy dissent, and let not thy soul have any thing to do with their secrets. This consent may be, 1. By symbolizing and complying actions, as Paul speaks in what was once his own case, Acts 22.20. he consented, and gives for witness of it, both that he stood by, and that he kept the raiment of them that slew St. Stephen. So many consent to the sin of others by standing Sentinel, watching the door, they not only wink at, but encourage and embolden others to sin this way.