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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.
3. Desire God to show it if there be any thing in the heart allowed contrary to the Word: Job 34. 32. That which I see not teach thou me, if I have done iniquity I will do no more. And Psal. 139. 23, 24. Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked thing in me; and lead me in the way everlasting. He would not hold on in any evil course. There is no sin so dear and near to him which he is not willing to see and judg in himself.
3. Desire God to shew it if there be any thing in the heart allowed contrary to the Word: Iob 34. 32. That which I see not teach thou me, if I have done iniquity I will do no more. And Psal. 139. 23, 24. Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked thing in me; and lead me in the way everlasting. He would not hold on in any evil course. There is no sin so dear and near to him which he is not willing to see and judg in himself.
4. When they fail through humane infirmity, or imprudence, they seek to renew their peace with God: 1 Joh. 2. 1. My little children these things write I unto you that ye sin not, and if any man sin, we have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous. They sue out their discharge in Christs name. If a man were unclean under the Law, he was to wash his clothes, and bath himself in water before evening, and not rest in his uncleanness. Now if we still abide in our filthiness, and do not fly to our Advocate, and sue out our pardon in Christs name, it argueth that we have not a respect to the Commandment.