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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.
Use 1. It reproveth those that make one duty excuse another. Two sorts there are, some that go from sins to duties; and others from duties to sins; that antedate or post-date Indulgences. 1. Those that antedate, that hope to make amends for their evil course by their duties; as when men allow themselves in a present carnal practice, upon the purpose of an after-repentance. It is as if men should distemper the body by excess, and then hope to amend all by giving themselves a vomit; or contract a sickness voluntarily, because they will take physic. Certainly men would not sin so freely, if they were not born up by promises of future reformation. 2. That post-date. They go from duties to sins, Ezek. 33. 13. When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall dye for it. If he shall commit a sin upon that confidence of his own righteousness. Josiah's breach with God, was after the preparing of the Temple, 2 Chron. 35. 20. even God's children take the more carnal liberty because of their duties.
Use 1. It reproveth those that make one duty excuse another. Two sorts there are, some that go from sins to duties; and others from duties to sins; that antedate or post-date Indulgences. 1. Those that antedate, that hope to make amends for their evil course by their duties; as when men allow themselves in a present carnal practice, upon the purpose of an afterrepentance. It is as if men should distemper the body by excess, and then hope to amend all by giving themselves a vomit; or contract a sickness voluntarily, because they will take physick. Certainly men would not sin so freely, if they were not born up by promises of future reformation. 2. That post-date. They go from duties to sins, Ezek. 33. 13. When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousness shall not be remembred; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall dye for it. If he shall commit a sin upon that confidence of his own righteousness. Iosiah's breach with God, was after the preparing of the Temple,