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SERMONS

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By the late REVEREND and LEARNED

JOHN HOWE, M. A.

VOL. II.

LONDON;

Printed by H. WOODFALL, for the EDITOR.
M.DCC.XLIV.

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SERMON I."

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TITUS 1. 16.

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

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INCE it is too obvious, that many persons are apt to fatisfy themselves with the mere profession of Chriftianity; and to reckon that while they explicitly own the true religion they are found Christians and good Protestants, without confidering whether that religion carries due and suitable impressions on their hearts or not; I have therefore thought it might not be unuseful, to discourse a little from this Scripture, and shew the vanity and infignificance of an empty profession, a profession which refutes and contradicts itself.

To make way for what I intend from this passage of Scripture, there are a few things that it will be necessary for me to recommend to your notice.

FIRST, That this phrase, the knowing of God, is an usual 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,

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* This Sermon is without a date; but, it is very probable, it was preached on January 16, 1680.

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