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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.
Use. 1. To persuade you to study the Scripture that you may get understanding, and hide the Word in your hearts for gracious purposes. This is the Book of Books, let it not lie idle and unemployed. The world can as well be without the Sun as the Bible, Psal. 19. First, he speaks of the Sun, and then of the Law of God. This is to the Christian and gracious world as the Sun is to the outward world. The use and profit of it should make us look after more acquaintance with it. Consider the great use of the Word for informing the understanding, ⟨p. 67⟩and reforming the will: For informing the understanding, 2 Tim. 3. 7. The word of God is able to make the man of God perfect, and throughly furnished. Who should have more knowledge than the man of God that is to stand in Gods stead, and teach the people? Then for reforming the will. Vers. 9th. of this Psalm, Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word. A young man that is so heedless and head-strong, and in the very ruff and heat of his lusts, yet there's enough in the Word to cleanse and tame him, and subdue him to God; Oh therefore let us get it into our hearts; let it not only move the lighter part of the soul, but get rooting, that it may have its full power and force. That we may not only have a little knowledge to talk of it, but we are to hide it deeply, that it may take root, and spring up again in our lives and conversations. To this end meditate often of it, and receive it in the love of it.
Use. 1. To perswade you to study the Scripture that you may get understanding, and hide the Word in your hearts for gracious purposes. This is the Book of Books, let it not lie idle and unimployed. The world can as well be without the Sun as the Bible, Psal. 19. First, he speaks of the Sun, and then of the Law of God. This is to the Christian and gracious world as the Sun is to the outward world. The use and profit of it should make us look after more acquaintance with it. Consider the great use of the Word for informing the understanding, ⟨p. 67⟩and reforming the will: For informing the understanding,