N00459:52
The danger of taking God's name in vain. As it was delivered in a…
The danger of taking God's name in vain. As it was delivered in a sermon / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
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3. This sin carries in it a grievous contempt of God, men must of necessity first undervalue his Being, before they can profane his Name. There cannot possibly be a more manifest discovery made, that men have low and mean thoughts of God, than when they can pl•y with and abuse his Name▪ if men did entertain the […] opinion of him, Psal. 111.9. H•ly and reverend i• his N•me; they could not thus do. And can it be supposed […], to despise him, whose Honour and Glory is Great above all our conceptions.
3. This sin carries in it a grievous contempt of God, men must of necessity first undervalue his Being, before they can profane his Name. There cannot possibly be a more manifest discovery made, that men have low and mean thoughts of God, than when they can pl•y with and abuse his Name▪ if men did entertain the 〈…〉 opinion of him, Psal. 111.9. H•ly and •everend i• his N•me; they could not thus do. And can it be supposed 〈…〉, to despise him, whose Honour and Glory is Great above all our conceptions.
4 It Scand•i•zeth the World. The very Light of Nature in the Consciences of mere