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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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2 To the Soul, 2which is the principal subject of it; 'tis not only flesh but spirit that is filthy, 2 Cor. 7.1. Gods Image was more in and on the Soul then body of man, and sins ambition and envy is to deprive the Soul of this Image; righteousness and holiness were stamped on mans Soul, but sin hath blotted this Image and Superscription, which on•• told from whence it came, and to whom it belonged, so that man is fallen short of the glory of God, and the glory of being Gods; it must be new created or renewed till God will own it for his, because till then his Image is not legible, if it (in this sense) be at all, for there is none righteous, no not one, Rom. 3.10.
2 To the Soul, 2which is the principal subject of it; 'tis not only flesh but spirit that is filthy, 2 Cor. 7.1. Gods Image was more in and on the Soul then body of man, and sins ambition and envy is to deprive the Soul of this Image; righteousness and holiness were stamp'd on mans Soul, but sin hath blotted this Image and Superscription, which on•• told from whence it came, and to whom it belong'd, so that man is fallen short of the glory of God, and the glory of being Gods; it must be new created or renewed till God will own it for his, because till then his Image is not legible, if it (in this sense) be at all, for there is none righteous, no not one, Rom. 3.10.
- 2His soul defiled.