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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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Yet more particularly: 11 Sin is against mans rest and ease, of which man is much a lover, and indeed needs it, as being a great part of the wellbeing of his life: 'Tis a sore travel which the sons of men have under the Sun; yea, what hath man of all his labour, and the vexation of his heart wherein he hath laboured? for all his days are sorrows, and his travel grief, Eccl. 1.13.2.22, 23. (whither he increase wisdom and knowledge, or pleasures and riches) yea he taketh not rest in the night, but is haunted with vain and extravagant, if not feared with frightful dreams; and his fancies, which are waking dreams by day, are more troublesome then them of the night: Mans ground is over-grown with thorns, that he hath many an aching head and heart, many a sore hand and foot (before the year come about) to get a little livelihood out of this sin-cursed ground: Mans Paradisical life was easy and pleasant, but now 'tis labour and pain, such as makes him sweat (yea, Eccl. 2.1, 2. his recreations ⟨p. 26⟩fall little short of his labour for pain and sweat) The old world was very sensible of this, as may be gathered from Genes. 5.29. He called his name Noah, saying, this same shall comfort us concerning our work, and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed; sin, curse and toil keep company.
Yet more particularly: 11 Sin is against mans rest and ease, of which man is much a lover, and indeed needs it, as being a great part of the wellbeing of his life: 'Tis a sore travel which the sons of men have under the Sun; yea, what hath man of all his labour, and the vexation of his heart wherein he hath laboured? for all his daies are sorrows, and his travel grief, Eccl. 1.13.2.22, 23. (whither he increase wisdome and knowledge, or pleasures and riches) yea he taketh not rest in the night, but is haunted with vain and extravagant, if not feared with frightful dreams; and his fancies, which are waking dreams by day, are more troublesome then them of the night: Mans ground is over-grown with thorns, that he hath many an aking head and heart, many a sore hand and foot (before the year come about) to get a little livelihood out of this sin-cursedground: Mans Paradisical life was easie and pleasant, but now 'tis labour and pain, such as makes him sweat (yea,