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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.
2. On the other side, worldly Lusts cause Ungodliness, for they withdraw our Hearts from God, and deliver them up to the Creature: As a sensual Man that loveth his Pleasure, maketh his Belly his God; Phil. 3.19. Whose God is his Belly. And a base-hearted Worldling, who suffereth outward Profits to intercept his Care, his Delight, and his Trust, makes Mammon his God; and therefore he is fitly called an Idolater, Ephes. 5.5. And a proud Man makes himself his God, and so is both Idol and Idolater; as the Sea sendeth forth Waves, and then sucketh them into it self: All their Esteem, all their restless Projects, are to exalt themselves, and set up themselves; and so they set their Heart as the Heart of God, Ezek. 28.2. All that they think, speak and do, is to set up the Idol of Self, their own Worthiness and Esteem. So that if we would deny one, we must deny both, not only Ungodliness, but worldly Lusts. A Man that is given to worldly Lusts, will surely be ungodly; and a Man that is ungodly, will be given to worldly Lusts.
2. On the other side, worldly Lusts cause Ungodliness, for they withdraw our Hearts from God, and deliver them up to the Creature: As a sensual Man that loveth his Pleasure, maketh his Belly his God; Phil. 3.19. Whose God is his Belly. And a base-hearted Worldling, who suffereth outward Profits to intercept his Care, his Delight, and his Trust, makes Mammon his God; and therefore he is fitly called an Idolater, Ephes. 5.5. And a proud Man makes himself his God, and so is both Idol and Idolater; as the Sea sendeth forth Waves, and then sucketh them into it self: All their Esteem, all their restless Projects, are to exalt themselves, and set up themselves; and so they set their Heart as the Heart of God, Ezek. 28.2. All that they think, speak and do, is to set up the Idol of Self, their own Worthiness and Esteem. So that if we would deny one, we must deny both, not only Vngodliness, but worldly Lusts. A Man that is given to worldly Lusts, will surely be ungodly; and a Man that is ungodly, will be given to worldly Lusts.