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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 Sin hath depraved mans understanding, 2and made him a fool, a sot, a very brute; ignorant, foolish, and beast, are joined together, Psa. 73.22. folly is the common name of sin, and so is fools of sinners in the Scripture, Psa. 94.8. O ye fools, when will ye be wise, i. e. O ye sinners when will ye fear God, for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, yea 'tis wisdom, Job 28.28. yea the top of wisdom, Prov. 1.7. Till a man fear God, he doth but play the fool, he is indeed unmanned, and beside himself: for of the Prodigal, (the Representative of Sinners and Converts) when he repented and was converted, 'tis said that he came to himself, and then quickly went to his Father. And in the recovery of man, our Lord Jesus Christ is made of God to us, not only righteousness, but light and wisdom, 1 Cor. 1.30. we were without that our selves, which Christ is made to us.
2 Sin hath depraved mans understanding, 2and made him a fool, a sot, a very bruit; ignorant, foolish, and beast, are joyned together, Psa. 73.22. folly is the common name of sin, and so is fools of sinners in the Scripture, Psa. 94.8. O ye fools, when will ye be wise, i. e. O ye sinners when will ye fear God, for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdome, yea 'tis wisdome, Job 28.28. yea the top of wisdome, Prov. 1.7. Till a man fear God, he doth but play the fool, he is indeed unmann'd, and beside himself: for of the Prodigal, (the Representative of Sinners and Converts) when he repented and was converted, 'tis said that he came to himself, and then quickly went to his Father. And in the recovery of man, our Lord Jesus Christ is made of God to us, not only righteousness, but light and wisdome,