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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.
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2 To show that man by sin had lost all, when our Lord Jesus came into this world for the recovery of man, and stood as in the sinners stead, he had not where to lay his head; the Foxes had holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head, Luke 9.58. Which plainly shows, that the sin of man had left the Son of man nothing: Though Christ were Lord of all, yet if he will come in the likeness of sinful flesh, he must speed not like the Son of God, but Son of Man, and be a man of sorrows, destitute, forsaken and afflicted: and though we fare the better for his suffering, yet he fared the worse for our sin; and among other the miseries he under-went, he had not where to lay his head. Again;
2 To shew that man by sin had lost all, when our Lord Jesus came into this world for the recovery of man, and stood as in the sinners stead, he had not where to lay his head; the Foxes had holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where to lay his head, Luke 9.58. Which plainly shews, that the sin of man had left the Son of man nothing: Though Christ were Lord of all, yet if he will come in the likeness of sinful flesh, he must speed not like the Son of God, but Son of Man, and be a man of sorrows, destitute, forsaken and afflicted: and though we fare the better for his suffering, yet he fared the worse for our sin; and among other the miseries he under-went, he had not where to lay his head. Again;
To add yet another discovery of the venomous nature of sin as to this that we are upon, 'tis not a little observable, that though God took not the full forfeiture, nor stripped us so naked and bare a he might have done, but indulged us, competent subsistence and accommodation, and (as the first fruits of his goodness) made the first suit of clothes which Adam and Eye wore, yet sin is against ⟨p. 25⟩that good which God left us, and fills it with vanity and vexation, with bitterness and a curse: God left Adam many acres of land to till and husband, but he hath it with a curse, sweat and sorrow, many a grieving briar and pricking thorn stick fast to him,