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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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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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For the opening of this blessedness in giving us the fruition of himself, consider, we enjoy God two ways, mediately and immediately; one proper to this world, the other to the next.

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1. Mediately we enjoy God, when he communicateth himself to us by secondary means, or the interposition of the creature between him and us. Thus in common mercies, when he feeds us by his meat and drink, and enlighteneth us with his Sun. Here in the world we have blessings at second or third hand, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth, &c. Hos. 2. 21, 22. Whatever one Creature affordeth to another, it hath it first from God. The Creature is but an empty hollow-pipe through which the blessing runs, and it passeth from pipe to pipe. God poureth out his influences to the Heavens, and the Heavens pour out their influences upon the Earth; and the strength of the Earth runneth up into corn, wine and oil; and by corn, wine, and oil, Israel hath his refreshments. So still from pipe to pipe is the blessing

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Title as printed

Author

Thomas Manton 1620–1677

Place

London

Bookseller

T.P. &c

Year

1681

Size

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

Words

1,118,470

Catalogue

Wing M526A · ESTC R225740

Text

EEBO-TCP A51842

Passages

8,606

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484

Title page

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.