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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.
1. The outward teaching is Gods teaching, because it is an Ordinance which is appointed by him; now both these must ever go together, external and internal teaching. Despise not Prophecy, Quench not the Spirit. If you would have any enlightening and quickening of the Spirit, you must not despise Prophecy. We teach you here, and God blesseth. Jesus Christ when he comes to teach his Disciples, first, he openeth the Scripture, Luk. 24. 37. And then v. 45. he opened their understandings. Of Lydia it is said, God opened her heart in attending to the things spoken by Paul, Act. 16. 14. She was attending, and then God openeth her heart. When the Eunuch was reading, then God sends an Interpreter. The outward means are necessary, it is Gods teaching in part, but the inward grace especially. Both these must go together, for it is said, Joh. 6. 45. Every man that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. There must be a hearing of the Word, and so there is a teaching from God. But,
1. The outward teaching is Gods teaching, because it is an Ordinance which is appointed by him; now both these must ever go together, external and internal teaching. Despise not Prophecy, Quench not the Spirit. If you would have any enlightning and quickning of the Spirit, you must not despise Prophecy. We teach you here, and God blesseth. Jesus Christ when he comes to teach his Disciples, first, he openeth the Scripture, Luk. 24. 37. And then v. 45. he opened their understandings. Of Lydia it is said, God opened her heart in attending to the things spoken by Paul, Act. 16. 14. She was attending, and then God openeth her heart. When the Eunuch was reading, then God sends an Interpreter. The outward means are necessary, it is Gods teaching in part, but the inward grace especially. Both these must go together, for it is said, Ioh. 6. 45. Every man that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. There must be a hearing of the Word, and so there is a teaching from God. But,