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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.
Doct. 2. Those that will keep Gods statutes, must fly to Gods help.
Doct. 2. Those that will keep Gods statutes, must flye to Gods help.
As David doth here, O forsake me not utterly; that is, O strengthen me in this work. Three reasons for this. 1. We are weak and mutable creatures. 2. Our strength lies in Gods hands. 3. God gives out his strength according to his own pleasure.
As David doth here, O forsake me not utterly; that is, O strengthen me in this work. Three reasons for this. 1. We are weak and mutable creatures. 2. Our strength lyes in Gods hands. 3. God gives out his strength according to his own pleasure.
1. We are weak and mutable creatures. When we were at our best, we were so. Adam in innocency was not able to stand without confirming grace, but gave out at the first assault. And still we are mutable, though we have a strong inclination for the present. When the precepts of God are propounded with evidence, and backed with promises and threatenings, and a resolution follows thereupon, the fruit of rational conviction and moral suasion, which is not for the present false and hypocritical, yet it will not hold without the bottom of grace. It hath not supernatural, yet it may have moral sincerity. Such a resolution was that of the Israelites after the terrible delivery of Gods Law. They promised universal obedience, and did not lye in it; for God saith, They have done well in their promise; there was a moral sincerity, but there wanted a renewed sanctified heart. And those Captains which came to