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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.
TITUS II.12. —And worldly Lusts, &c.
Grace that teacheth us to deny Ungodliness, doth also teach us to deny worldly Lusts. These are fitly coupled; Ungodliness feedeth worldly Lusts, and worldly Lusts increase Ungodliness.
GRace that teacheth us to deny Ungodliness, doth also teach us to deny worldly Lusts. These are fitly coupled; Ungodliness feedeth worldly Lusts, and worldly Lusts encrease Ungodliness.
1. Ungodliness feedeth worldly Lusts: because when we leave God the chiefest Good, then our Hearts go a whoring after every base Comfort. Jer. 2.13. My People have committed two Evils; They have forsaken me the Fountain of living Waters, and have hewed them out Cisterns, broken Cisterns that can hold no Water. If Men are ignorant of God, or do not seek after God, the Heart lies open to every Object; As when a worthy Match is refused upon some groundless dislike, in a fond humour, the next Suitor is entertained, how base and unworthy soever. It cometh to pass partly by Man's Wickedness: when God is refused, any thing serves the turn instead of God, to put the greater Affront and Despite upon him. And partly by God's just Judgment: to evidence our Baseness and Folly, God suffereth us to match our Affections with any thing that comes next to hand.