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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.
1. Meditate often of it, Luk. 2. 19. Mary kept all these sayings; how did she keep them? she pondered them in her heart. Musing makes the fire to burn, and deep and constant thoughts are operative, not a glance or a slight view. The Hen which straggleth from her nest when she sits a brooding, produceth nothing, it is a constant incubation which hatcheth the young; so when we have only a few straggling thoughts, and do not set a brooding upon a truth, when we have flashes only, like a little glance of a Sun-beam upon a wall, it doth nothing; but serious and inculcative thoughts (through the Lords blessing) will do the work. Urge the heart again and again. As the Apostle when he had laid down the Doctrine of Justification, and the privileges thereof, Rom. 8. 31. Now what shall we say to these things? Is this a truth? then what will become of me if I disregard it? Thus to return upon our heart when any light begins to shine in our minds from the Scripture, Is this the Word of God, and doth it find no more entertainment in my heart?
1. Meditate often of it, Luk. 2. 19. Mary kept all these sayings; how did she keep them? she pondered them in her heart. Musing makes the fire to burn, and deep and constant thoughts are operative, not a glance or a slight view. The Hen which stragleth from her nest when she sits a brooding, produceth nothing, it is a constant incubation which hatcheth the young; so when we have only a few stragling thoughts, and do not set a brooding upon a truth, when we have flashes only, like a little glance of a Sun-beam upon a wall, it doth nothing; but serious and inculcative thoughts (through the Lords blessing) will do the work. Urge the heart again and again. As the Apostle when he had laid down the Doctrine of Justification, and the priviledges thereof, Rom. 8. 31. Now what shall we say to these things? Is this a truth? then what will become of me if I disregard it? Thus to return upon our heart when any light begins to shine in our minds from the Scripture, Is this the Word of God, and doth it find no more entertainment in my heart?