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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.
II. For the Positive Part. Positive Ungodliness is more gross when we put an actual Contempt and Scorn upon God. We are guilty of this when we slight his Providence, and disobey his Laws.
1st. When we slight his Providence; Heb. 12.5. My Son, despise not thou the Chastening of the Lord. Men harden themselves against Corrections, and count light of them: Men cannot endure to have their Anger despised. When the three Children despised Nebuchadnezzar's Threatenings, it is said, Dan. 3.19. Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of Fury, and the Form of his Visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego; therefore he spake and commanded, that they should heat the Furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heat. It is a mighty Affront to God, and a Contempt of him, when we provoke him, while we are under his afflicting Hand, if in Despite of God we break out into Sin, when he hedgeth up our way with Thorns; 2 Chron. 28.22. And in the time of his Distress, did he trespass yet more against the Lord. This is that King Ahaz.
1st. When we slight his Providence; Heb. 12.5. My Son, despise not thou the Chastening of the Lord. Men harden themselves against Corrections, and count light of them: Men cannot indure to have their Anger despised. When the three Children despised Nebuchadnezzar's Threatnings, it is said, Dan. 3.19. Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of Fury, and the Form of his Visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego; therefore he spake and commanded, that they should heat the Furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heat. It is a mighty Affront to God, and a Contempt of him, when we provoke him, while we are under his afflicting Hand, if in Despite of God we break out into Sin, when he hedgeth up our way with Thorns;