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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.
are the greatest and precious) let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Shall we commend holiness in them that are dead, and not like holiness in our selves while we are alive? Holiness is the beauty of Earth and Heaven, without which we cannot live well on Earth, nor shall ever live in Heaven: certainly they that jeer and scoff at holiness, and rejoice that they are none of the holy ones, they do as if they should make Bond-fires, ring the Bells, and give thanks that they shall never be saved; for if they be not holy, saved they cannot be: or as one words it, they that shall be in Heaven, will be in no danger to be derided for the sake of piety, for those that deride it, will not be admitted there. And as for the wicked, God will turn them into Hell, and all the Nations (all them of any Nation) that forget God, Psal. 9.17. Poor Soul, think a little, yea, think much of the great day of thine accounts & Gods judgment, which though thou put far from thee, yet it will surely come; and woe unto thee, if it overtake thee unawares, and as a thief in the night, 1 Thes. 5.3, 4. Seeing this may be, and that will be, Oh, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversations and godlinesses! (as 'tis in the Greek) 2 Pet. 3.10, 11. What shall I say more? I will shut up all with what was long since excellently spoken by a great Doctor in our Israel, and which is worthy to be written in the hearts of all men, and to be often ⟨p. 351⟩before their eyes, and in their thoughts: 'tis this,
are the greatest and precious) let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Shall we commend holiness in them that are dead, and not like holiness in our selves while we are alive? Holiness is the beauty of Earth and Heaven, without which we cannot live well on Earth, nor shall ever live in Heaven: certainly they that jeer and scoff at holiness, and rejoyce that they are none of the holy ones, they do as if they should make Bon-fires, ring the Bells, and give thanks that they shall never be saved; for if they be not holy, saved they cannot be: or as one words it, they that shall be in Heaven, will be in no danger to be derided for the sake of piety, for those that deride it, will not be admitted there. And as for the wicked, God will turn them into Hell, and all the Nations (all them of any Nation) that forget God,