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The almost Christian discovered, in some sermons on Acts 26, 28 with a blow…
The almost Christian discovered, in some sermons on Acts 26, 28 with a blow at profaneness / by the R.R. Ezekiel Hopkins, late Lord Bishop of London-Derry ; to which is added the upright Christian discovered, gathered out of the judicious treatises of William Bates, D.D.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1693
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
PR•faneness, is the slighting and neglecting of things Holy and Sacred. Whosoever is guilty of this, let his outward Demeanour in the World, be as fair, and as plausible as Morality and […] can adorn it, yet he is a profane Person.
PR•faneness, is the slighting and neglecting of things Holy and Sacred. Whosoever is guilty of this, let his outward Demeanor in the World, be as sair, and as plausible as Morality and 〈…〉 can adorn it, yet he is a profane Person.
The Spiritual Sacred things, are,
The Spirit•al Sacred things, are,
First, God in his Nature and Essence. Whom we profane when we entertain any blasphemous or unworthy Thoughts of Him.
Secondly, God in his Name. Which we profane, when we rashly in our trivial Discourses, bolt out that great and terrible Name, at which all the Powers of Heaven and Hell tremble. It doth sadly fore-bode the growing Profaneness of the next Age, that Children be […] or Suffered to call upon God in their […], before they be taught to call on him in their […].