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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. The manner how the word is applied and made use of, If he take heed thereunto according to thy word: This implieth a studying of the word, and the tendency and importance of it; which is necessary if the young man would have benefit by it. David calleth the statutes of God, the men of his counsel. Young men that are taken with other books, if they neglect the word of God, that book that should do the cure upon the heart and mind, they are with all their knowledge miserable, Psal. 1. 2. His delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his Law doth he meditate day and night. If men would grow wise to Salvation, and get any skill in the practice of godliness, they must be much in this blessed book of God, which is given us for direction, 1 Joh. 2. 14. I have written unto you young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. It is not a slight acquaintance with the word that will make a young man so successful as to defeat the temptations of Satan, and be too hard for his own lust; it is not a little notional irradiation, but to have the word dwell in you, and abide in you richly. The way to destroy ill weeds is to plant good herbs that are contrary. We suck in carnal principles with our milk, and therefore we are said to speak lies from the womb. A kind of a riddle, before we are able to speak, we speak lies; namely as we are prone to error and all manner of carnal fancies by the natural temper and frame of our hearts, Isa. 58. 2. And therefore from our very tender and Infant-age we should be acquainted with the word of God, 2 Tim. 3. 15. And that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures. It may be children by reading the word get nothing but a little memorative knowledge, but yet it is good to plant the field of the memory, in time they will soak into the judgment and conscience, and thence into the heart and affections.
2. The manner how the word is applied and made use of, If he take heed thereunto according to thy word: This implieth a studying of the word, and the tendency and importance of it; which is necessary if the young man would have benefit by it. David calleth the statutes of God, the men of his counsel. Young men that are taken with other books, if they neglect the word of God, that book that should do the cure upon the heart and mind, they are with all their knowledg miserable,