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One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on Psalm 119
One hundred and ninety sermons on the hundred and nineteenth Psalm preached by the late reverend and learned Thomas Manton, D.D. ; with a perfect alphabetical table directing to the principal matters contained therein.
London: printed for T.P. &c, 1681
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. It was the end of our Creation: We do not live merely to live, but for this end were we sent into the world to seek God. Nature is sensible of it in part by the dissatisfaction it finds in other things, and therefore the Apostle describes the Gentiles to be groping and feeling about for God, Act. 17. 27. God is the cause of all things, and Nature cannot be satisfied without him. We were made for God, and can never enjoy satisfaction until we come to enjoy him, therefore the Psalmist saith, Psal. 14. 2. We are all gone aside, and altogether become filthy. Nature is out of joint, we are quite out of our way to true happiness. We are seeking that for which we were created when we seek and enquire after God.
1. It was the end of our Creation: We do not live meerly to live, but for this end were we sent into the world to seek God. Nature is sensible of it in part by the dissatisfaction it finds in other things, and therefore the Apostle describes the Gentiles to be groping and feeling about for God, Act. 17. 27. God is the cause of all things, and Nature cannot be satisfied without him. We were made for God, and can never enjoy satisfaction until we come to enjoy him, therefore the Psalmist saith, Psal. 14. 2. We are all gone aside, and altogether become filthy. Nature is out of joint, we are quite out of our way to true happiness. We are seeking that for which we were created when we seek and enquire after God.
2. We seek other things that we want with great solicitude and care, we are cumbered with much serving to obtain the world, and shall any thing be sought more than God? we can least spare him. The chiefest good should be sought after with the chiefest care, and chiefest love, and chiefest delight, nothing should be so precious to us as God. It is the greatest baseness that can be, that any thing should take up our time, our thoughts, and content us more than God. When we come to God we are earnest for other things.