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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.
4. We may be accessory to other mens sins, if instead of reproving, we approve of it, Eph. 5.11. have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but reprove them rather; not to reprove them, but instead thereof to have fellowship with them, is to approve: and beside this, there are three things which speak approbation; as,
1. When we take pleasure in the actions or ⟨p. 347⟩the actors; Jer. 5.30, 31. the Prophets prophesy falsely, and the Priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so, q. d. they set their seal to it, to approve and confirm what the Prophets and Priests do: Of this import is that Rom. 1.32. Though they knew the Judgments of God, that they who did such things were worthy of death; yet they not only did the same, but took pleasure in them that did them. As men are said to help on the affliction of Gods people, and to approve them by saying, Ha, Ha, so would we have it, Ezek. 25.3. and 26.2. To take pleasure in such things as others do, is to be accessories, and as if they had done them. When the Apostle Paul tells of other mens sins, he doth it weeping, Phil. 3.18. and so frees himself from any the least degree of approbation: but when men laugh, take pleasure in, and make sport of other mens sins, 'tis (by construction) an approbation of them.
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