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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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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, Gen. 3.17.-19. God left him ground enough, v. 23. but alas 'tis cursed ground! so that sin is against mans temporal good, either in taking it from him, or cursing it to him: Sin is so envious, that it would leave man nothing; and if God be so good as to leave him any thing, sins eye is evil, because God is good, and puts a sting in it, viz a curse.
To add yet another discovery of the venomous nature of sin as to this that we are upon, 'tis not a little observeable, that though God took not the full forfeiture, nor stript us so naked and bare a he might have done, but indulged us, comperent subsistance and accommodation, and (as the first fruits of his goodness) made the first suit of cloaths 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 bryar and pricking thorn stick fast to him, Gen. 3.17.-19. God left him ground enough, v. 23. but alas 'tis cursed ground! so that sin is against mans temporal good, either in taking it from him, or cursing it to him: Sin is so envious, that it would leave man nothing; and if God be so good as to leave him any thing, sins eye is evil, because God is good, and puts a sting in it, viz a curse.