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One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on Psalm 119

Name: One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on Psalm 119
Author: Thomas Manton

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.

Thomas Manton 1620–1677London: printed for T.P. &c, 1681

[5], 1107, [29] p. : port. · 1.1M words · Wing M526A · ESTC R225740

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SEVERAL SERMONS UPON THE CXIX. PSALM. › Sermon 13 › II. Though God stand in no need of us, yet he is willing to communi…: II. Though God stand in no need of us, yet he is willing to communicate his blessedness…

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1. That to us, who can neither hurt him, nor help him. Psal. 8. 3, 4. Lord, what is man that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him? What a poor sorry creature is man? wilt thou set thine eyes upon such a one? What would God lose if we were all damned? Or what would he gain if all were saved? He would lose no more by us than a bounteous man doth by the death of a company of beggars and maimed persons, which live upon his expense and charge. Wherein can we be useful to God?

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2. Herein lieth the bounty of God, to give us such a blessing as the enjoyment of Himself. When he had no greater thing to swear by (saith the Apostle) he sware by himself. When God hath no greater thing to give us, he gives us himself, I am thy God. He scatters and sheds abroad some common influences upon all creatures; but to us he gives not only that which is his, but gives us himself, that when our happiness is at the highest, we may immediately enjoy him.

2. Herein lyeth the bounty of God, to give us such a blessing as the enjoyment of Himself. When he had no greater thing to swear by (saith the Apostle) he sware by himself. When God hath no greater thing to give us, he gives us himself, I am thy God. He scatters and sheds abroad some common influences upon all creatures; but to us he gives not only that which is his, but gives us himself, that when our happiness is at the highest, we may immediately enjoy him.

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Title as printed

Author

Thomas Manton 1620–1677

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London

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T.P. &c

Year

1681

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[5], 1107, [29] p. : port.

Words

1,118,470

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Wing M526A · ESTC R225740

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EEBO-TCP A51842

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One Hundred and Ninety Sermons on Psalm 119

III. The Word of God, especially the Gospel-part doth only teach us the way how we may be blessed in the enjoyment of God.

IV. If we would profit by the Word of God, we must go to God, and desire the light and strength of his grace.

V. The more we are brought to attend upon the Word, and the more influence the Word hath upon us, the nearer the blessing.

VI. It is not only an affront put upon God, but also a great wrong, to neglect the Word of God, and the way he prescribes, and to seek blessedness in temporal things.

VI. It is not only an affront put upon God, but also a great wrong, to neglect the Word of God, and the way he preseribes, and to seek blessedness in temporal things.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

III. The Word of God, especially the Gospel-part doth only teach us the way how we may be blessed in the enjoyment of God.

IV. If we would profit by the Word of God, we must go to God, and desire the light and strength of his grace.

V. The more we are brought to attend upon the Word, and the more influence the Word hath upon us, the nearer the blessing.

VI. It is not only an affront put upon God, but also a great wrong, to neglect the Word of God, and the way he prescribes, and to seek blessedness in temporal things.

VI. It is not only an affront put upon God, but also a great wrong, to neglect the Word of God, and the way he preseribes, and to seek blessedness in temporal things.