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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.
2. Words: Idle words weigh heavy in Gods Balance. God that hath given a Law to the heart, hath also given a Law to the lips, Mat. 12. 36. Every-idle words that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Words will come to be judged; either we are to give an account of them here, or hereafter; either to condemn our selves for them, and seek pardon, or to be condemned hereafter before God. A loose and ungoverned tongue will be one evidence brought against men as a sign of their unrenewed hearts in the day of Judgment.
2. Words: Idle words weigh heavy in Gods Ballance. God that hath given a Law to the heart, hath also given a Law to the lips, Mat. 12. 36. Every-idle words that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. Words will come to be judged; either we are to give an account of them here, or hereafter; either to condemn our selves for them, and seek pardon, or to be condemned hereafter before God. A loose and ungoverned tongue will be one evidence brought against men as a sign of their unrenewed hearts in the day of Judgment.
3. All our Actions; they are sentenced in the Word, God hath declared his mind concerning them, Eccles. 12. 14. God will bring every work into judgment: Things will not be huddled up in that day. God will not accept of a general bill of account by lump, but every action he will judg it according to the tenor of his Word. This is an amplification of the first reason, why the word or precepts of God are called judgments, because they are judicial sentences of God the Law-giver, given forth with an authority uncontrollable concerning our estate and actions.
3. All our Actions; they are sentenced in the Word, God hath declared his mind concerning them,