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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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5 Sin is against the beauty of man; 5it takes away the loveliness of mens very complexions, it alters the very air of their countenance, Psa. 9.11. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty (or that which is to be desired in him, as 'tis in the margin) to consume or melt away like a Moth; surely every ⟨p. 28⟩man is vanity, his beauty vain: Now there was no such thing as vanity or deformity, till sin entered, every thing was lovely before, and man above any thing of the inferior world.
5 Sin is against the beauty of man; 5it takes away the loveliness of mens very complexions, it alters the very air of their conntenance, Psa. 9.11. When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou mak'st his beauty (or that which is to be desir'd in him, as 'tis in the margine) to consume or melt away like a Moth; surely every ⟨p. 28⟩man is vanity, his beauty vain: Now there was no such thing as vanity or deformity, till sin entred, every thing was lovely before, and man above any thing of the inferiour world.
- 5His beauty.
6 6Sin is against the loving and conjugal cohabitation of soul and body, they were happily married, and lived lovingly together for a while, till sin sowed discord between them, and made them jar; many a falling out is there now between body and soul, between sense and reason, they draw several ways, there's a self-civil war, even in this sense the flesh lusteth against the spirit, that poor man is hauled and pulled this way and that, tossed to and fro as with several winds: nunc hic nunc flectitur illic: man is full of contradictions: Time was when the mind commanded the body, but now this servant rides on horse-back, when that Prince walks on foot: Man is inverted, his head is where his heels should be; his soul is become a prisoner to the body (rather then a Free-man) too too often; the beast is too hard for the man, and the horse rides the rider, sense Lords it and domineers over reason!