SERMONS ON Several Subjects: By the late REVEREND and LEARNED JOHN HOWE, M. A. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed by H. WOOD FALL, for the EDITOR. M.DCC.XLIV. SERMON I.* TITUS I. 16. They profefs that they know GOD; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and difobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. S INCE it is too obvious, that many perfons are apt to fatisfy themselves with the mere profeffion of Chriftianity; and to reckon that while they explicitly own the true religion they are found Christians and good Proteftants, without confidering whether that religion carries due and fuitable impreffions on their hearts or not; I have therefore thought it might not be unufeful, to difcourfe a little from this Scripture, and fhew the vanity and infignificance of an empty profeffion, a profeffion which refutes and contradicts itself. To make way for what I intend from this paffage of Scripture, there are a few things that it will be neceffary for me to recommend to your notice. FIRST, That this phrafe, the knowing of GOD, is an ufual expreffion to fignify religion in general; in as much as it is the primary, the most deep and fundamental thing in all religion. It is, VOL. II. A as * This Sermon is without a date; but, it is very probable, it was preached on January 16, 1680. |