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“One of the first evidences of man's sinfulness and misery by it, was that he could not endure, but hid himself from the voice and face of God”

Ralph Venning

Genesis 3:8
The Sinfulness of Sin

“Sin is anti-will to God's will; it sets itself to oppose preaching, prayer, and all the institutions of God.”

Ralph Venning

The Sinfulness of Sin

“Courteous reader, 'tis said of scripture that it is deep enough for an elephant to swim in, and yet shallow enough for a lamb to wade through.”

Ralph Venning

From the late 1640s, in Ian Green, Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England (2002), p. 101.

“They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.”

Ralph Venning

Mysteries and Revelations, p. 5. (1649). Compare: "There is nothynge that more dyspleaseth God, Than from theyr children to spare the rod." John Skelton, Magnyfycence, line 1954.

“What is sin but a departure from God? And what is the doom of sinners but departure from God? Depart from us is the cry of sinners to God. Depart from me will be the cry of God to sinners.”

Ralph Venning

The Sinfulness of Sin

“Confession of sin and repentance gives glory to God (Joshua 7:19) and sin endeavors to obstruct and hinder this.”

Ralph Venning

The Sinfulness of Sin

“All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.”

Ralph Venning

"The Triumph of Assurance", Orthodox Paradoxes, Or, A Believer Clearing Truth by Seeming Contradictions (1647), p. 41. Compare: "Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep", Mathew Henry, Commentaries. Genesis iii.

“He accounts himself lesse then the least of all mercies; and yet he looks on the greatest as his due.”

Ralph Venning

"The Triumph of Assurance", Orthodox Paradoxes, Or, A Believer Clearing Truth by Seeming Contradictions (1647), p. 48-49.