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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.
5. It discovereth plenty of knowledge, and a good esteem of the word. 1. Plenty of knowledge, when it is so apt to break out. When these living waters run out of the belly, it's a sign of a good spring there. Col. 3. 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another. It's a sign we have gotten the riches of understanding; for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. So Prov. 16. 23. The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips. When our speech hath weight and worth in it, and we are ready upon all occasions, it argueth a good stock of the word. You know a man that puts his hand in his pocket, and brings up gold at every draught, it's a sign he hath more plenty of it than silver: So, when we are ready to bring out gracious discourses, it argueth a treasure and stock within. 2. It argueth a good esteem of the word. Things that are dear and precious to us, we use to discourse of them. What we love, admire, and affect, the tongue will be occupied about such things, John 3. 31. He that is of the earth, is earthly, and speaketh of the earth. And 1 John 4. 5. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world. I know it is spoken in the first place of ordinary Teachers. All men whose original is of the earth, they savour of it in their speech; when they speak of divine things, there is some earthiness in it. The other Scripture is meant of false Teachers, they savour of the world, all their teaching doth savour of their affections. But both places give this general truth, What a mans affections are upon, it is most ready in his mouth. Therefore it argueth we are affected with the word of God, when we are declaring it upon all occasions.
5. It discovereth plenty of knowledg, and a good esteem of the word. 1. Plenty of knowledg, when it is so apt to break out. When these living waters run out of the belly, it's a sign of a good spring there. Col. 3. 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another. It's a sign we have gotten the riches of understanding; for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. So