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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.
Negatively: 1. Not by way of boasting, there is no such thing here, no presumptuous boasting of his own perfections, for it was accompanied with a deep sense of his weakness, wandering and straggling condition, he acknowledgeth his infirmities. There is no such thing allowed as boasting; the Apostles argument is convincing, Why boastest thou? what have we that we have not received? If we can boast of any things it is that we are most in debt, that we have received more, 1 Cor. 1. We must glory in the Lord.
Negatively: 1. Not by way of boasting, there is no such thing here, no presumptuous boasting of his own perfections, for it was accompanied with a deep sense of his weakness, wandring and stragling condition, he acknowledgeth his infirmities. There is no such thing allowed as boasting; the Apostles argument is convincing, Why boastest thou? what have we that we have not received? If we can boast of any things it is that we are most in debt, that we have received more, 1 Cor. 1. We must glory in the Lord.
2. Not pleading of merit, as if he had deserved any thing of God; so the Pharisee speaks of his good works, Luk. 18. 11. It is not to such a purpose as if we could challenge a reward as a due debt upon any good that we have done.
But Positively, How then may we make mention of our Qualifications?