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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.
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, Gal. 5. 17. ⟨p. 30⟩The flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh, and these are contrary the one to the other, so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Desires being the vigorous bent of the soul, discover the temper of it. The carnal nature puts forth its self in lustings, so doth the new nature. The main thing we have by grace, is a new heart, that is, new loves, new desires, and new delights, Rom. 8. 5. For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh: but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit.