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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. › 2 In a Moral sense, for
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1 1To his body; for the flesh is filthy, 2 Cor. 7.1. and the body needs sanctifying and cleansing, 1 Thes 5.23. the body is a body of sin, the members are servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity, Rom. 6.19. Take him from head to foot, from the Crown of that to the sole of this, there's no whole (because not holy) part in him, but all filthy and full of putrefactions and sores: If we dissect and anatomize man, we shall find this but too true, for not to name every sin that cleaves to the whole or every part, but in a more general way, 'tis thus said of sinful men, their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, with their tongues they use deceit, the poison of Asps is ⟨p. 31⟩under their lips, their throat is an open Sepulchre, Rom. •, 13, 14. eyes full of adultery, 2 Pet. 2.14. the eye-lids haughty, Prov. 30.13. ears dull of hearing, Hebr. 5.11. yea deaf as the Adder, Psa. 58.4, 5. the forehead is impudent as a brow of brass, Is. 48.4. both hands are employed to work iniquity, Mic. 7.3. the belly an Idol-God, Phil. 3.19. the feet are swift to shed blood, Rom. 3.15. and if we look within, their inward part is very wickedness (Hebr. wickednesses) Psa. 5.9. the gall is a gall of bitterness, in a moral as in a natural sense; the spleen is affected, yea infected with envy and malice; what part is there which is not the seat of one or other evil? Yea this defilement cleaves