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A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…
A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture in two parts : part the first containing LXXIV sermons : part the second containing LXXVI sermons : with an alphabetical table to the whole / by ... Thomas Manton ...
London: printed by J. D., 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.
Secondly, NOW let me open the thing it self. In Ungodliness there is something Negative, and that is, denying God his due Honour; and something Positive, and that is, putting actual Contempt upon him.
I. For the Negative Part, when God is denied his Honour. Now to find out how this is done, let us a little enquire, what is the special and peculiar Honour which God challengeth to himself. It stands in four things; To be the First Cause, the Chiefest Good, the Supreme Authority and Truth, and the last End. And therefore when we do not acknowledge him to be the First Cause, the Chiefest Good, the Supreme Authority and Truth, and the last End, we rob him of the Glory of his Godhead, and are guilty of this which the Apostle calls Ungodliness. I shall go over these Branches.
I. For the Negative Part, when God is denied his Honour. Now to find out how this is done, let us a little enquire, what is the special and peculiar Honour which God challengeth to himself. It stands in four things; To be the First Cause, the Chiefest Good, the Supream Authority and Truth, and the last End. And therefore when we do not acknowledg him to be the First Cause, the Chiefest Good, the Supream Authority and Truth, and the last End, we rob him of the Glory of his Godhead, and are guilty of this which the Apostle calls Vngodliness. I shall go over these Branches.
First; God must be honoured as the First Cause, which giveth Being to all things, and hath his Being from none; and so we are bound to know him, to depend upon him, to observe his Providence, and to acknowledge his Dominion over all Events or Things which happen in the World. And so far as any of these are neglected, so far are we guilty of Ungodliness. Well then, under this Head,
First; God must be honoured as the First Cause, which giveth Being to all things, and hath his Being from none; and so we are bound to know him, to depend upon him, to observe his Providence, and to acknowledg his Dominion over all Events or Things which happen in the World. And so far as any of these are neglected, so far are we guilty of Vngodliness. Well then, under this Head,