He then proceeds to amplify upon Paul’s words “denying ungodliness. He now lays down the rule by which we may order our lives well, and tells us that we ought to begin by renouncing our former way of life, two features of which he mentions—ungodliness and worldly lusts. Under ungodliness I include not only the superstitions in which they had erred, but the irreligious neglect of God that prevails among men until they have been enlightened into the knowledge of the truth. For although they make some
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