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they are ungodly, and turn the grace of our God into wantonness, and deny God. Paul complaining of the misliving of of the people in his time,¹ said, Whereas they know God, they glorify not God: Where they know his name, they glorify not his name. Whosoever he be that taketh upon him to know Gods way, and walketh not in Gods way, whosoever taketh upon him to know God and his gospel, and directs not his doings according unto Gods will & his holy commandments, he doth not confess God, and glorify his holy name. Saint Paul found fault with the Jews,² and said, For your sake is the name of God evil spoken of among the Gentiles: for your sake, for your evil and corrupt living, said S. Paul ⟨image 26⟩Good brethren, let us consider that as many of us as say, we know gods way, we know gods word & his gospel; if virtue follow not, if honest conversation & upright living follow not this our profession, we shame God, and dishonour his holy name. Dicunt se nosce Deum, saith S.³ Paul, sed factis negant: they say they know God, saith he, they say they know his holy word & gospel, but in their deeds they deny God, they deny his gospel. An horrible thing it is to deny God. The Turks, the Jews, the Heathen, & Infidels, do not deny God: & yet S. Paul said that in his time Christian men, such as professed the name of god, in their deeds denied god & his gospel. If thou say thou knowest God, if thou say thou knowest his gospel: if thou live not as God commandeth thee, if thou live not as it becometh a professor of Gods gospel, thou blasphemest Gods name, and dishonourest his gospel. Ore suo appropinquant ad me, ⁴saith God by his prophet Esay, corda autem illorū longe absunt à me: this people draweth nigh unto me with their mouths, but their hearts are far from ⟨image 26⟩me. They honour me with their mouths but with their hearts they deny me. And in another place God by his Prophet David saith: O thou man, ⁵