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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. › Sins contrariety to Man.
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.
1 'Tis against mans well-being in this life; 1vivere est valere, well-being is the life of life, and sin bears us so much ill will, that it deprives us of our livelihood, and that which makes it worth our while to live, man was born to a great estate, but by sin (which was and is Treason against God) he forfeited all: Man came into the world as into an house ready furnished, he had all things prepared and ready to his hands; all the creatures came to war on him, and pay him homage, but when man sinned, God turned him out of house and home; all his lands, goods and chattels were taken from him; Paradise was mans Inheritance, where he had every thing pleasant to the eye, and good for food; (as for clothes he needed none while Innocent) but when he sinned, God dispossessed him of all, and drave him out into the wide world, like a Pilgrim, a Beggar, to live on his own hands, and to earn his meat with the sweat of his brow, as you may read at large, Genes. 3. Thus by sin man that was the Emperor of Eden, is banished from his Native Country, and must never see it more but in a new and living way, for the old is stopped up, and beside that 'tis kept against him with flaming swords. Ever since it hath been every mans lot to come into and go out of this world naked, to show that he hath no right to any thing, but lives on the alms of Gods charity and grace (all ••e have or hold between our birth and death is clear •gain and mere gift) God might choose whither •he would allow us any thing or no, and when he ⟨p. 24⟩hath given, he may take again, and none of us have cause to say any thing but what Job did, Chap. 1.21. Naked came I into the world, and naked shall I return; the Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the Name of the Lord. All we have (our food and raiment) is but lent us, we are only Tenants at will, and therefore seeing we deserve nothing, we should be content with and thankful for any thing, 1 Tim. 6.7, 8.
1 'Tis against mans well-being in this life;