( 197 SERMON VIII. Of Godlinefs. 2 Pet. i. 6. And to Patience, Godlinefs._ GOdlinefs is fometimes in fcripture taken SERM. in fo large a fenfe as to comprehend VIII. univerfal righteoufnefs, all the difpofi- wU tions of mind and habits, everycourfe of anion which are morally good, and to which God has annexed the promife of acceptance. Thus it is to be underftood in St. Paul's exhortation to Timothy, * Exercife thf if unto godlinefs, which is profitable to all things, having pro - mife of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. For furely it is not to piety alone in the ftriteft fenfe, thofe rewards are pro - mifed, but to all the branches of religious virtue. And when the fame infpired author * a Tim. iv. 7, 8. 03 gives
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