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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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'Tis not any one faculty only that sin hath defiled, but like a strong poison, it soaks and ears through all; that whereas all was holy, and holiness to the Lord, 'tis now evil, and evil against ⟨p. 32⟩the Lord, Genes. 6.5. Every imagination (figment or creature) of the heart is only evil continually; yea, the Flood, which washed away so many sinners, could not wash away sin; the same heart remains after the Flood, as before, Genes. 8.21. and as it was with the heart of man from his youth, it hath continued to be to this old and decrepit age of the world; for to this day there proceeds out of the heart the same evil thoughts, words and deeds, that then did, Mat. 15.20 And from this unclean Fountain issues forth all that defiles the man.
'Tis not any one faculty only that sin hath defiled, but like a strong poyson, it soaks and ears through all; that whereas all was holy, and holiness to the Lord, 'tis now evil, and evil against ⟨p. 32⟩the Lord, Genes. 6.5. Every imagination (figment or creature) of the heart is only evil continually; yea, the Flood, which washt away so many sinners, could not wash away sin; the same heart remains after the Flood, as before, Genes. 8.21. and as it was with the heart of man from his youth, it hath continued to be to this old and decrepit age of the world; for to this day there proceeds out of the heart the same evil thoughts, words and deeds, that then did, Mat. 15.20 And from this unclean Fountain issues forth all that defiles the man.