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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.
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.
Here you have the true way to blessedness set down in Gods statutes, but in outward things there wants fullness, sincerity, eternity.
Here you have the true way to blessedness set down in Gods statutes, but in outward things there wants fulness, sincerity, eternity.
1. There wants fullness. That which makes us blessed, it must fill up the heart of man. As a vessel is never full until it have as much as it can hold; so we can never be said to have a full happiness and contentment until we have as much as we can hold. That which fills must be greater than the thing filled. Now mans heart is such a Chaos of desires, that it can never be filled up but in God, Psal. 16. 11. In thy presence is fullness of joy, at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore. Therefore of the joy and happiness we have in God, 'tis said, Enter into thy Masters joy,