The Sinfulness of Sin
Ralph Venning wrote this treatise in the shadow of the Great Plague of London, arguing that sin is a far deadlier contagion than any physical disease. He works through what sin is, why it is so offensive to God, and the ruin it brings on humanity, before turning to the remedy found in Christ. It matters because it recovers a weighty, unsentimental view of sin that gives the gospel its true urgency.
Based on Sin, the Plague of Plagues (1669), later retitled The Sinfulness of Sin
From the book
In Ralph Venning's own words
“Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of his mercy, the jeer of his patience, the slight of his power, the contempt of his love.”
“Sin aims not only that man should not be well, but that man should not be at all.”
