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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. Approbation and being accessory is concluded from hence, when men flatter others, and speak peace to them in their evil ways: When men say peace, where God saith there is none, i. e. to the wicked. God and man will curse him that saith to the wicked, thou art righteous, Prov. 24.24. and Ezek. 13.10. because they have seduced (or flattered) my people, saying, peace, and there was no peace, and have daubed with untempered mortar; and vers. 18. have sowed pillows under their elbows; therefore will I pull down the wall, and will tear your your pillows and kerchiefs, because vers. 22. they made the hearts of the righteous sad, and ⟨p. 348⟩strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way: There is a woe against such, as vers. 18.
2. Approbation and being accessory is concluded from hence, when men flatter others, and speak peace to them in their evil ways: When men say peace, where God saith there is none, i. e. to the wicked. God and man will curse him that saith to the wicked, thou art righteous, Prov. 24.24. and Ezek. 13.10. because they have seduced (or flatter'd) my people, saying, peace, and there was no peace, and have daubed with untemper'd mortar; and vers. 18. have sowed pillows under their elbows; therefore will I pull down the wall, and will tear your your pillows and kerchiefs, because vers. 22. they made the hearts of the righteous sad, and ⟨p. 348⟩strengthned the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way: There is a wo against such, as vers. 18.