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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.
The Fourth Circumstance in the Text is the manner of performing this duty of rendering praise, with an upright heart. I shall not discourse of uprightness in general, but uprightness in praising God. God must be praised with a great deal of uprightness of soul, that's the note. This uprightness in praising lieth in two things, not only with the tongue, but the heart; not only with the heart, but the life.
The Fourth Circumstance in the Text is the manner of performing this duty of rendring praise, with an upright heart. I shall not discourse of uprightness in general, but uprightness in praising God. God must be praised with a great deal of uprightness of soul, that's the note. This uprightness in praising lyeth in two things, not only with the tongue, but the heart; not only with the heart, but the life.
1. Not only with the tongue, but with the heart, Psal. 103. 1. Praise the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Mark, not only with my tongue, with my glory, as ⟨p. 44⟩he calls it, but with my soul: Formal speeches are but an empty prattle, which God regards not, Psal. 47. 7. Sing ye praises with understanding. It is fit the noblest faculty should be employed in the noblest work: this is the noblest work to praise God, therefore all that is within us must be summoned. Church-adversaries took up a customary form, Zech. 11. 5. Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich. And in Nehemiah it is said, Your brethren that hated me, said, Let God be glorious. In Instruments of Music, the deeper the belly of the Instrument, the sweeter the melody; so Praise, the more it comes from the heart, the more acceptable to God.
1. Not only with the tongue, but with the heart,