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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. They have a corrupt nature, they have sin in them as well as others, it is their misery to the last. Rom. 7. 24. O wretched man that I am, saith the holy Apostle. Sin though it be dejectum, cast down in regard of Regency, yet it is not ejectum, cast out in regard of inherency, their corrupt nature sticks by them to the last. One compares it to a wild fig-tree, or to Ivy ⟨p. 19⟩in a wall, cut off the body, the boughs, sprigs, branches, yet still there will be something that will be sprouting up again until the wall be digged down. Such an in-dwelling sin is in us, though we pray, strive, and cut off the excrescencies, the buddings out of it here and there, yet till it be plucked asunder by death, it continueth with us.
1. They have a corrupt nature, they have sin in them as well as others, it is their misery to the last. Rom. 7. 24. O wretched man that I am, saith the holy Apostle. Sin though it be dejectum, cast down in regard of Regency, yet it is not ejectum, cast out in regard of inherencie, their corrupt nature sticks by them to the last. One compares it to a wild fig-tree, or to Ivy ⟨p. 19⟩in a wall, cut off the body, the boughs, sprigs, branches, yet still there will be something that will be sprouting up again until the wall be digged down. Such an in-dwelling sin is in us, though we pray, strive, and cut off the excrescencies, the buddings out of it here and there, yet till it be plucked asunder by death, it continueth with us.
2. They have their daily failings and infirmities: Eccles. 7. 20. There is not a just man upon earth that doth good, and sinneth not. Those that for their general state are just and righteous men, yet certain sins they cannot get rid of, and are unavoidable; as sins of ignorance, incogitancy, sudden surreption, indeliberate incursions, which we shall never be freed from as long as we are in this imperfect state. So also imperfections of duty, for we cannot serve God with that high degree of reverence, delight, and perfection which he requireth. There are unavoidable infirmities which are pardoned of course.