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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. 4. When God seemeth to forsake us and really doth so in part, yet we should pray that it be not an utter and total desertion.
Isa. 64. 9. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 1. Do not despond, we are very apt to do so, Psal. 77. 7, 8, 9. Will the Lord cast off for ever, will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious, hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. The worst kind of despondency is to lye in sin. To lye in the dirt, because we are fallen, is foolish obstinacy. 2. Pray to God: 1. Acknowledging that we have deserved it: 2. By supplication. There is nothing which God hath promised to perform, but we may ask it in prayer, Heb. 13. 5. He hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. If thou provest me, let me not miscarry, if thou exercisest me, let me not be cut off. Beg his returns. 3. Give thanks that God is not wholly gone, as certainly he is not, as long as you are sensible of your loss, and have a tender heart left. Though he hath withdrawn the light of his countenance, yet he hath left the esteem of it, a thirst after God, and a desire of communion with himself. As long as there is any attractive left, you may find him by the smell of his Ointments.
Isa. 64. 9. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever. Behold see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. 1. Do not despond, we are very apt to do so, Psal. 77. 7, 8, 9