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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. › Sins contrariety to Man.
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.
4 Sin is against the quiet of a mans natural conscience, for it wounds the spirit, 4and makes it intolerable; a wounded spirit who can bear? Prov. 18.14. while that is sound and whole, all infirmities are more easily born, but when that is broken, the supports fail: and this hath great influence upon the body; for Prov. 17.22. a merry heart doth good like a medicine, (no cordial like it) but a broken spirit drieth the bones, it sucks away the marrow and radical moisture, Prov. 12.25. heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop; a good conscience is a continual feast, but sin mars all the mirth. When Cain had killed his Brother, and his conscience felt the stroke of the curse, he was like a distracted man and mad: when Judas had betrayed his Master, he was weary of his life.
4 Sin is against the quiet of a mans natural conscience, for it wounds the spirit, 4and makes it intollerable; a wounded spirit who can bear? Prov. 18.14. while that is sound and whole, all infirmities are more easily born, but when that is broken, the supports fail: and this hath great influence upon the body; for Prov. 17.22. a merry heart doth good like a medicine, (no cordial like it) but a broken spirit drieth the bones, it sucks away the marrow and radical moisture, Prov. 12.25. heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop; a good conscience is a continual feast, but sin mars all the mirth. When Cain had killed his Brother, and his conscience felt the stroak of the curse, he was like a distracted man and mad: when Judas had betray'd his Master, he was weary of his life.
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