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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.
Doct. To gain the heart to a full obedience it is good to consider the authority of God in his Word.
There are many courses we must use to draw the heart to an obedience to God. We may urge:
1. The reasonableness of Obedience, so that if we are left at our liberty, we should take up the ways of God rather than any other: Rom. 7. 12. The commandment is holy, just, and good. All that God hath required, it carrieth a great suitableness to the reasonable nature, so that if a man were well in his wits, and were to choose a Law, he would of his own accord prefer the Laws of God before Liberty, and any other service. Certainly there is an excellency in them, which is in part discerned by carnal men; they admire those that practise the duties which God hath required, though they are loth to submit to them themselves. It is no heavy burden to live chastely, humbly, soberly, and to maintain a communion and correspondence with God; and whosoever doth so hath much the sweeter life of him that liveth sinfully. We may urge:
1. The reasonableness of Obedience, so that if we are left at our liberty, we should take up the ways of God rather than any other: Rom. 7. 12. The commandment is holy, just, and good. All that God hath required, it carrieth a great suitableness to the reasonable nature, so that if a man were well in his wits, and were to chuse a Law, he would of his own accord prefer the Laws of God before Liberty, and any other service. Certainly there is an excellency in them, which is in part discern'd by carnal men; they admire those that practise the duties which God hath required, though they are loth to submit to them themselves. It is no heavy burthen to live chastely, humbly, soberly, and to maintain a communion and correspondence with God; and whosoever doth so hath much the sweeter life of him that liveth sinfully. We may urge: