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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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4 4It appears that sin hath blinded man, for he knows not whither he goes, Joh. 12.35. 1 Joh. 2.11. Men are busy in this world (like a company of Ants) creeping up and down from one Mole-hill to another, but are not so wise, for the Ants know, but poor blind men know not whither they go, whither forward or backward, from home, or to home, they are in a maze, and bewildered; they think they are going to pleasure and profit, honour and happiness, but alas they are mistaken, and are going to pain and loss, to disgrace and death; like the Syrians, who thought they had been going to Dothan as Conquerors, but were found in Samaria, at the mercy of their enemies; they were hood winked with blindness, 2 Kings 6. So men thin• they are going heaven-ward, when alas sin lead• them to hell, while their eyes are shut, and they know not where they go.
4 4It appears that sin hath blinded man, for he knows not whither he goes, Joh. 12.35. 1 Joh. 2.11. Men are busie in this world (like a company of Ants) creeping up and down from one Mole-hill to another, but are not so wise, for the Ants know, but poor blind men know not whither they go, whither forward or backward, from home, or to home, they are in a maze, and bewilder'd; they think they are going to pleasure and profit, honor and happiness, but alas they are mistaken, and are going to pain and loss, to disgrace and death; like the Syrians, who thought they had been going to Dotha• as Conquerours, but were found in Samaria, at the mercy of their enemies; they were hood winkt with blindness, 2 Kings 6. So men thin• they are going heaven-ward, when alas sin lead them to hell, while their eyes are shut, and they know not where they go.