A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

Thirdly; God must be acknowledged as the supreme Truth and Authority: and there if we be not moved with his Promises, with his Threatenings and Counsels, as the Words of the great God, as if he had spoken from Heaven by an audible Voice; if we do not yield him Reverence in his Worship, and subject our Hearts and Lives unto his Laws, it is Ungodliness.

Thirdly; God must be acknowledged as the supream Truth and Authority: and there if we be not moved with his Promises, with his Threatnings and Counsels, as the Words of the great God, as if he had spoken from Heaven by an audible Voice; if we do not yield him Reverence in his Worship, and subject our Hearts and Lives unto his Laws, it is Ungodliness.

1st. We must receive the Counsels of his Word with all Reverence and Veneration, as if God had spoke to us by a Voice from Heaven. This is to receive the Word as the Word of God; 2 Thess. 2.10. They received not the Love of the Truth, that they might be saved. The Heathens received the Oracles of their Gods with great Reverence, and were much moved when they had an Oracle; but when the Word comes with a mighty convincing Power upon the Heart, and you are not moved and affected; this argues your Ungodliness: So when we can drowsily hear of the great things of Heaven, and the Death of Christ, and the Covenant of Grace, and the glorious Salvation offered, and are no more moved than with a Fable, or with a Dream of Rubies dropping down from Heaven in the Night; this is Ungodliness. That there is a great deal of Ungodliness in this kind, is clear by our Neglect of these Precious Things. If a Man should proffer another a thousand Pound for a Trifle, and he should not accept it, you would not say it was because he prized that Trifle that is not profitable, but because he did not believe the Offer: So when God offers Heaven and Christ to us upon such easy terms, as to part with nothing but our Sins, which are better parted with than kept; we do not honour him as the eternal Truth, if we do not accept it, but count him a Liar; and this is the greatest Affront you can put upon God: for he that believeth not, God hath made him a Liar, because he believeth not the Record that God gave of his Son,