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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.
'Tis his first desire, David had hitherto spoken assertively; when he cometh to speak Supplications, his first and chief request to God, is, Oh that my ways were directed, &c.
Mark again: It is not a desire of happiness but holiness; not Oh that I were blessed, but Oh that my ways were directed. A mind to know, a will to obey, and a memory to keep in mind Gods precepts.
It is Practical holiness: O that my ways. God hath his ways: They walk in his ways, vers. 3. And we have our ways: Oh that my ways were directed. That is, all my thoughts, counsels, inclinations, speeches, actions, were directed by thy statutes. Every Commandment is a Royal Edict; a statute which God hath made for the governing of the World.
Now the Saints have this desire of Holiness:
1. From the new Nature that is in them: The Appetite followeth the Nature,