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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.
Secondly, Subjectively; and so again God is blessed either in an Active, or in a Passive sense.
1. In an Active sense. And here we must distinguish again; for so God is blessed, either with respect to Himself, or with respect to us.
1. Blessed in himself, as he hath the fullness of perfection and contentment. Blessedness is often ascribed to God, 1 Tim. 1. 11. The glorious Gospel of the blessed God. I'll open that place by and by. 1 Tim. 6. 15. Who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords. Now how is God blessed in himself? Gods blessedness is that Attribute by which the Lord from himself, and in his own being, is free from all misery, and enjoyeth all good, and is sufficient to himself, and contented with himself, and doth neither need nor desire the creature for any good that can accrue to him by us. Or more shortly, God's blessedness is the fruition of himself, and his delighting in himself. Mark, it lieth not in the enjoyment of the Creature, but in the enjoyment of himself. God useth us, but doth not enjoy us: As we enjoy a thing for it self, but we use it for another; so uti and frui differ: we use the means, but enjoy the end. God useth the creature in subserviency to his own glory. So it is said, Prov. 16. 4. God made all things for himself. His happiness lieth in knowing himself, in loving himself, in delighting in himself.
1. Blessed in himself, as he hath the fulness of perfection and contentment. Blessedness is often ascribed to God,