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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.
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. Hos. 7. 14. They howl upon their beds for corn and wine. If any thing be sought from God above God, more than God, and not for God, it is but a brutish cry.
2. We seek other things that we want with great solicitude and care, we are cumbred 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. Hos. 7. 14. They howl upon their beds for corn and wine. If any thing be sought from God above God, more than God, and not for God, it is but a brutish cry.
3. It is our benefit to seek God. It is no benefit to God if we do not seek him. The Lord hath no less, though we have less. He that hides himself from the Sun, doth not impair the light. We derogate nothing from God if we do not seek him. He needed not the Creature, he had happiness enough in himself, but we hide our selves from our own happiness and our own peace. But what benefit have we by seeking God? a great deal of present benefit, Psal. 22. 26. They that seek thee shall praise thy name. You'll have cause to bless God before the search be over, God hath past his word, there are a great many experiences we taste. As they that continue in the pursuit of the Philosophers-stone find out many experiences, which are a satisfaction to their understandings; so one way or other we shall have cause to bless God. The God of Jacob hath openly professed we shall not seek him in vain,