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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 2Mans darkness is evident by this, That though the light shine, yet his darkness comprehendeth it not, Joh. 1.5. Ah how blind is that man, who at mid-day (when the Sun shines in full strength) sees it not! It was no great wonder that the Law was darkness to man, for Mose• had a veil on his face; but that the Gospel, the clearest light that ever shone in the world; that Christ himself, the brightness of his Fathers glory, should not be comprehended, Oh marvellous ⟨p. 35⟩darkness! In the innocent Golden-age man could have comprehended the least hint that came from God, and have seen day at a little hole or crevice; he could have looked on the Sun, and his eye not twinkle; but now the natural man receives not the things of the spirit, nor can he discern them: No, the Wisdom of God, the preaching of the Gospel is foolishness to him, 1 Cor. 2.14. This Gospel (while revealed) continues an hidden thing to this blinded world, 2 Cor. 4.3, 4. and to know Christ Jesus requires as great a power as was in the Creation, when God commanded light to shine out of darkness, as the Apostle tells us in the same place, 2 Cor. 4.6, 7. Again:
2 2Mans darkness is evident by this, That though the light shine, yet his darkness comprehendeth it not, Joh. 1.5. Ah how blind is that man, who at mid-day (when the Sun shines in full strength) sees it not! It was no great wonder that the Law was darkness to man, for Mose• had a veil on his face; but that the Gospel, the clearest light that ever shone in the world; that Christ himself, the brightness of his Fathers glory, should not be comprehended, Oh marvellous