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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.
And there are three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit, the Water, and the Blood. And vers. 10. He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself.
2. It is the only rule of true Holiness: Never was it stated and brought to such a pitch as it is in the Scriptures; nor enforced by such arguments as are found there; it requireth such an holiness as standeth in conformity to God, and is determined by his will. Now it is but reason that he that is the supreme Being should be the rule of all the rest. It is an holiness of another rate than the blind heart could find out, not an external devotion, nor a civil course, but such as transformeth the heart and subdueth it to the will of God, Rom. 2. 15. If a man would attain to the highest exactness that a rational creature is capable of, not to moral virtue only, but a true genuine respect to God and man, he must regard and love the Law of God that is pure. A man that would be holy, had need of an exact rule, for to be sure his practice will come short of his rule, and therefore if the rule it self be short, there will no due provision be made for respects to God or man. But now this is a rule that reacheth not only to the way, but the thoughts, That converteth the soul, Psal. 19. 7. The Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul. Take the fairest draughts of that moral perfection which yet is of humane recommendation, and you will find it defective and maimed in some parts either as to God or men. It is inferioris Hemisphaerii, as not reaching to the full subjection of the soul to God. There is some dead fly in their box of ointment, either for manner or end.
2. It is the only rule of true Holiness: Never was it stated and brought to such a pitch as it is in the Scriptures; nor enforced by such arguments as are found there; it requireth such an holiness as standeth in conformity to God, and is determined by his will. Now it is but reason that he that is the supreme Being should be the rule of all the rest. It is an holiness of another rate than the blind heart could find out, not an external devotion, nor a civil course, but such as transformeth the heart and subdueth it to the will of God,