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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.
5. A child of God may have some particular evils, which may be called predominant sins, (not with respect to grace, that's impossible that a man should be renewed and have such sins that sin should carry the mastery over grace;) but they may be said to have a predominancy in comparison of other sins; he may have some particular inclination to some evil above others. David had his iniquity, Psal. 18. 23. Look as the Saints have particular graces, Abraham was eminent for Faith, Timothy for Sobriety, Moses for meekness, &c. so they have their particular corruptions which are more suitable to their temper and course of life. Peter seems to be inclined to Tergiversation, and to shrinking in a time of trouble. We find him often tripping in that kind; in the denial of his Master; again, Gal. 2. 12. it is said he dissembled and complied with the Jews, therefore Paul withstood him to his face, for he was to be blamed. It is evident by experience, there are particular corruptions to which the children of God are more inclinable: this appears by the great power and sway they bear in commanding other evils to be committed by their falling into them out of inward propensity when outward temptations are few or weak, or none at all; and when resistance is made, yet they are more pestered and haunted with them than with other temptations, which is a constant matter of exercise and humiliation to them.
5. A child of God may have some particular evils, which may be called predominant sins, (not with respect to grace, that's impossible that a man should be renewed and have such sins that sin should carry the mastery over grace;) but they may be said to have a predominancy in comparison of other sins; he may have some particular inclination to some evil above others. David had his iniquity, Psal. 18. 23. Look as the Saints have particular graces, Abraham was eminent for Faith, Timothy for Sobriety, Moses for meekness, &c. so they have their particular corruptions which are more suitable to their temper and course of life. Peter seems to be inclin'd to Tergiversation, and to shrinking in a time of trouble. We find him often triping in that kind; in the denial of his Master; again, Gal. 2. 12