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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. There's internal and external desertion. Internal is with respect to the withdrawings of the Spirit, Psal. 51. 11. Take not thy holy Spirit from me. Now external desertion is in point of Affliction, when God leaves us under sharp crosses in his wise Providence. These must be distinguished, sometimes they are asunder, sometimes together. And when they are together, God may return as to our inward comfort and support, yet not for our deliverance. Ps. 1 38. 3. In the day when I cried, thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. David was in great straits, and God affords him soul-relief; that was all the answer he could get then, support and strength to bear the troubles, but not deliverance from the affliction. Sometimes the ebb of outward comfort doth make way for a greater tide and influx of inward comfort, 2 Cor. 1. 5. As the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. Cordials are for a fainting time. When children are sick and weakly, we treat them with the more indulgence. God may return, and may never less forsake us inwardly, than when he doth forsake us outwardly, 2 Cor. 4. 16. Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. God makes sickly bodies make way for the health of the soul; and an aching head, for a better heart: When he seems to cast us off in point of our external condition, it is to draw us into a more inward communion with himself; that we might receive greater supplies of his grace.
2. There's internal and external desertion. Internal is with respect to the withdrawings of the Spirit, Psal. 51. 11. Take not thy holy Spirit from me. Now external desertion is in point of Affliction, when God leaves us under sharp crosses in his wise Providence. These must be distinguished, sometimes they are asunder, sometimes together. And when they are together, God may return as to our inward comfort and support, yet not for our deliverance. Ps. 1 38. 3. In the day when I cryed, thou answeredst me, and strengthnedst me with strength in my soul. David was in great straits, and God affords him soul-relief; that was all the answer he could get then, support and strength to bear the troubles, but not deliverance from the affliction. Sometimes the ebb of outward comfort doth make way for a greater tide and influx of inward comfort,