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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. Consider the necessity of it: 1. Because of the heat of youth, the passions and lusts are very strong, 2 Tim. 2. 22. Fly also youthful lusts. Men are most incident in that age to pride and self-conceit, to strong affections, inordinate and excessive love of liberty, 1 Tim. 3. 6. Not a Novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the Devil. A man may make tame, fierce creatures, Lyons and Tigers; and the fury of youth needs to be tempered and bridled by the word. It is much for the glory of Grace, that this heat and violence is broken, when the subject is least of all disposed and prepared. 2. Because none are tempted so much as they. Children cannot be serviceable to the Devil, and old men are spent, and have chosen their way; but youths, who have a sharpness of understanding, and the stoutest and most stirring spirits, the Devil loveth to make use of such, 1 Joh. 2. 13. I write unto you young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. They are most assaulted; but it is for the honour of grace when they overcome, when their fervency and strength is employed, not in satisfying lusts, but in the service of God, and fighting against Satan. Therefore it is very needful they should be seasoned with the word betimes.
2. Consider the necessity of it: 1. Because of the heat of youth, the passions and lusts are very strong, 2 Tim. 2. 22. Fly also youthful lusts. Men are most incident in that age to pride and self-conceit, to strong affections, inordinate and excessive love of liberty, 1 Tim. 3. 6. Not a Novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the Devil. A man may make tame, fierce creatures, Lyons and Tygers; and the fury of youth needs to be tempered and bridled by the word. It is much for the glory of Grace, that this heat and violence is broken, when the subject is least of all disposed and prepared. 2. Because none are tempted so much as they. Children cannot be serviceable to the Devil, and old men are spent, and have chosen their way; but youths, who have a sharpness of understanding, and the stoutest and most stirring spirits, the Devil loveth to make use of such,