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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 › III. The Word of God, especially the Gospel-part doth only teach us…: III. The Word of God, especially the Gospel-part doth only teach us the way how we may…

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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.

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That's a notable place to this purpose, 1 Tim. 1. 11. The glorious Gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. Mark there, first he calls it the glorious Gospel. When he speaks of the Law in that place he saith, We know that the Law is good, compare it with v. 8. but when he comes to speak of the Gospel, he calls it the glorious Gospel; the Law is good, but the Gospel glorious, because more of the glory of God is displayed and discovered to the Creature. And the glorious Gospel of the blessed God. Titles are always suited to the case in hand, therefore it is called, The glorious Gospel of the blessed God, because there God is discovered as ready to bless us; there's the way how we may come to be blessed in God; how he may with respect to us be a fountain of blessedness; there we have the highest discoveries of this mystery; the most moving arguments to persuade us to look after it; and with this Gospel there's a grace, a virtue dispensed to enable us to walk in this way. So that if we would enjoy the blessed God we must consult with his statutes, and especially the Gospel. The

That's a notable place to this purpose, 1 Tim. 1. 11. The glorious Gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. Mark there, first he calls it the glorious Gospel. When he speaks of the Law in that place he saith, We know that the Law is good, compare it with v. 8. but when he comes to speak of the Gospel, he calls it the glorious Gospel; the Law is good, but the Gospel glorious, because more of the glory of God is display'd and discovered to the Creature. And the glorious Gospel of the blessed God. Titles are always suited to the case in hand, therefore it is called, The glorious Gospel of the blessed God, because there God is discovered as ready to bless us; there's the way how we may come to be blessed in God; how he may with respect to us be a fountain of blessedness; there we have the highest discoveries of this mystery; the most moving arguments to perswade us to look after it; and with this Gospel there's a grace, a vertue dispensed to enable us to walk in this way. So that if we would enjoy the blessed God we must consult with his statutes, and especially the Gospel. The

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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.

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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.