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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.
3. Seek him unweariedly, and do not give over your seeking until you find God. Wrestle through discouragements; though former endeavours have been in vain, yet still we should continue seeking after God. We have that command▪ to enforce us to it, Luk. 5. 5. We have toiled all night, howbeit at thy command, &c. Though we do not presently find, yet we must not cast off all endeavours. In spiritual things many times a man hears and goes away with nothing, but when he comes to meditate upon it, and work it upon the heart, then he finds the face of God, and the strength of God. Therefore you must not give over your seeking.
3. Seek him unweariedly, and do not give over your seeking until you find God. Wrestle through discouragements; though former endeavours have been in vain, yet still we should continue seeking after God. We have that command▪ to inforce us to it, Luk. 5. 5. We have toiled all night, howbeit at thy command, &c. Though we do not presently find, yet we must not cast off all endeavours. In spiritual things many times a man hears and goes away with nothing, but when he comes to meditate upon it, and work it upon the heart, then he finds the face of God, and the strength of God. Therefore you must not give over your seeking.
4. Seek him in Christ. God will only be found in a Mediator; Heb. 7. 25. Those are accepted that come to God by him. Guilty creatures cannot enjoy God immediately. And in Christ God is more familiar with us. Hos. 3. 5. They shall seek the Lord their God, and David their King. None can seek him rightly but those that seek him in Christ. It is uncomfortable to think of God out of Christ. As the Historian saith of Themistocles when he sought the favour of the King, he snatched up the Kings Son, and so came and mediated for his grace and favour. Let us take the Son of God in the arms of our faith, and present him to God the Father, and seek his face, his strength.