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The peril of the times displayed. Or The danger of mens taking up with…
The peril of the times displayed. Or The danger of mens taking up with a form of godliness, but denying the power of it. Being the substance of several sermons preached: / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [One line from Augustine in Latin]
Boston: printed by B. Green, 1700
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.
1. Verbally and professedly: and that is the fi•st signification of the word; but it cannot be universally so understood here: for, for a man to profess the true Religion, and at the same time professedly to deny it, is a contradiction. Though it must be granted, that a man may profess a thing in the gross, and yet deny it in some of the main parts of it, as will appear in the sequel. But this is not all, nor yet the thing which is principally here designed.
2. Practically; and so the word is very often used Metaphorically, when men live contrary to their Profession, they a•e said to deny it: and there cannot be a more effectual denial than this is; and hence these two are set in direct opposition, in the forecited, Tit. 1. ult. Now the thing here said to be denied is the Power of Godliness; and there are two things in which this consists, answering to the two fore-named ⟨p. 25⟩respects, in which we were told, the power of Godliness consists.
2. Practically; and so the word is very often used Met•phorically, when men live contrary to their Profession, they a•e said to deny it: and there cannot be a more effectual denial than this is; and hence these two are set in direct opposition, in the forecited, Tit. 1. ult. Now the thing here said to be denied is the Power of Godliness; and there are two things in which this consists, answering to the two fore-named ⟨p. 25⟩respects, in which we were told, the power of Godliness consists.