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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.
First, You have the blessed man described negatively, They do no iniquity. Upon hearing the words, presently there occurs a doubt, How then can any man be blessed? for there is not a man that liveth and sinneth not, Eccles. 7. 20. and Jam. 3. 2. In many things we offend all. To deny it, is a flat lye against the truth, and against our own experience. If we say we have no sin, we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us, 1 Joh. 1. 8. The expression may be abused on the one side to establish the impeccability and perfection of the Saints; on the other side it may be abused by persons of a weak and tender conscience, to the hinderance of their comfort and rejoicing in God. When they shall hear this is the character of a blessed man, they do no iniquity, they are very apt to conclude against their own regeneration, because of their daily failings.
First, You have the blessed man described negatively, They do no iniquity. Upon hearing the words, presently there occurs a doubt, How then can any man be blessed? for there is not a man that liveth and sinneth not, Eccles. 7. 20. and Jam. 3. 2. In many things we offend all. To deny it, is a flat lye against the truth, and against our own experience. If we say we have no sin, we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us, 1 Joh. 1. 8. The expression may be abused on the one side to establish the impeccability and perfection of the Saints; on the other side it may be abused by persons of a weak and tender conscience, to the hinderance of their comfort and rejoycing in God. When they shall hear this is the character of a blessed man, they do no iniquity, they are very apt to conclude against their own regeneration, because of their daily failings.