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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.
3. Approbation is declared by this, when any defend and excuse other mens sins, as if they were retained (like Lawyers) and had their fee: They that justify the wicked are equally an abomination with them that condemn the righteous, Prov. 24.17. Some are so wicked, as to defend other mens wickedness (not only like Lawyers, but like Soldiers) by sword and force of arms; as they did for him, who had abused the Levites Concubine, Judges 20.14. &c. but to plead for other mens sins, is to be as guilty as they who commit it. Many more things might be added, but I forbear them, because I have been somewhat large upon this subject, which I was the more willing to be, because 'tis a thing too seldom treated, and too little taken notice of, and laid to heart, viz. the share that we too often have in other mens sins.
3. Approbation is declared by this, when any defend and excuse other mens sins, as if they were retained (like Lawyers) and had their fee: They that justifie the wicked are equally an abomination with them that condemn the righteous, Prov. 24.17. Some are so wicked, as to defend other mens wickedness (not only like Lawyers, but like Souldiers) by sword and force of arms; as they did for him, who had abused the Levites Concubine, Judges 20.14. &c. but to plead for other mens sins, is to be as guilty as they who commit it. Many more things might be added, but I forbear them, because I have been somewhat large upon this subject, which I was the more willing to be, because 'tis a thing too seldom treated, and too little taken notice of, and laid to heart, viz. the share that we too often have in other mens sins.
Thus am I at last come to the Close and Conclusion of the whole matter,