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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.
In the words two things are to be explained: 1. What he will declare, All the Judgments of thy mouth. 2. In what sense he will declare them.
In the words two things are to be explained: 1. What he will declare, All the Iudgments of thy mouth. 2. In what sense he will declare them.
First, What he will declare. Gods will revealed in the Scripture, is called the judgments of his mouth. His judgments, I have showed that, v. 7. at large. Briefly now I will add two Reasons: First, because it is the Rule according to which we must judg of all spiritual truth. Isa. 8. 20. To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Secondly, it is the rule according to which we must look to be judged both here and hereafter. Here: I will chastise them (or judg them) as their congregation hath heard. According to the sentence of the word, so will the course of his Providence be; and according to which we shall be judged hereafter. John 12. 48. The word that I have spoken, ⟨p. 77⟩the same shall judg him in the last day. Gods Providences are a comment upon the Scriptures. The Scripture is not only a Record of what is past, but a Calendar and Prognostication of what is to come; you may read your doom, your judgment there; for the statutes of the Lord are all called Judgments, because of an answerable proceeding in the course of Gods Providence; if men escape here, they will not escape the judgment of the last day, when the sentence of that God shall infallibly be made good. Now the verdict of the word it is called the judgments of his mouth, as if God himself had pronounced by Oracle, and judged from heaven in the case; and these judgments of his mouth the Psalmist saith, shall be the matter of his discourse and conference with others.
First, What he will declare. Gods will revealed in the Scripture, is called the judgments of his mouth. His judgments, I have shewed that, v. 7. at large. Briefly now I will add two Reasons: First, because it is the Rule according to which we must judg of all spiritual truth.