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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.
4. They may now and then fall foully; as Noah by excess of Drink; Lot's Incest; David's Adultery; Peter's Denial. Failings and Infirmities they are not determined either by the smallness or by the greatness of the act, but by other concomitant circumstances. Not by the smallness of the act. There is as much Treason in coining Pence, as Shillings and Pounds. Allowed affections to small sins is deadly and damnable: He that is unfaithful in little, will be unfaithful in much. Christians, where temptations are weak, and impotent, and of slight concernment and importance, they may be sooner confuted, and obedience is the more easy; so that our rebellion to God by small sins may be greater. A man may have great affections to small sins, so it may prove an iniquity, a damnable sin.
4. They may now and then fall foully; as Noah by excess of Drink; Lot's Incest; David's Adultery; Peter's Denial. Failings and Infirmities they are not determined either by the smallness or by the greatness of the act, but by other concomitant circumstances. Not by the smallness of the act. There is as much Treason in coyning Pence, as Shillings and Pounds. Allowed affections to small sins is deadly and damnable: He that is unfaithful in little, will be unfaithful in much. Christians, where temptations are weak, and impotent, and of slight concernment and importance, they may be sooner confuted, and obedience is the more easie; so that our rebellion to God by small sins may be greater. A man may have great affections to small sins, so it may prove an iniquity, a damnable sin.
On the other side, great sins may be infirmities; as Lot's Incest, David's Adultery, when they are not done with full consent of soul, when their hearts are not wholly carried away with them. Iniquities are determined by their manner. Jude v. 15. Their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed: when with full consent of will, and it is their course that argues an habitual hatred and contempt of God.
On the other side, great sins may be infirmities; as Lot's Incest, David's Adultery, when they are not done with full consent of soul, when their hearts are not wholly carried away with them. Iniquities are determined by their manner.