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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.
To avoid these difficulties, I shall enquire, 1. What it is to do iniquity. 2. Who are the persons among the sons of men that may be said to do no iniquity.
First, What it is to do iniquity. If we make it our trade and practice to continue in wilful disobedience. To sin is one thing, but to make sin our work, is another. 1 Joh. 3. 9. He that is born of God, doth not commit sin; he doth not work sin. And Matt. 7. 23. Depart from me ye that work iniquity. That's the Character of the Reprobate, workers of iniquity. So Joh. 8. 34. Whosoever committeth sin, is the servant of sin. Sin is their constant trade. Psal. 139. 24. See if there be any wicked way in me. None are absolutely freed from sin, but it is not their trade, their way, their work. When a man makes it his study and business to carry on a course of sin, then he is said to do iniquity.
Secondly, Who are those that are said to do no iniquity in Gods account, though they fail often thorough weakness of the flesh, and violence of temptation? Answer,