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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. In our Relations, that we do no good there, in declaring the Judgments of Gods mouth to one another. Surely every Relation is a Talent, and you will be accountable for it, if you do not improve it for your Masters use. The husband is to converse with his wife as a man of knowledge, 1 Pet. 3. 7. and the wife to gain upon the husband, 1 Pet. 3. 2. and both upon the children and servants. The members of every Family should be helping one another in the way to heaven. With what busy diligence doth an Idolatrous Family carry on their way and their course! See Jer. 7. 18. The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, &c. saith the Lord. Every one will have his hand in the work, and are quickening and inflaming one another; Fathers, Children, Husbands, Wives, all find some employment or other about their Idolatrous ⟨p. 81⟩Service. O that every one would be as forward, and zealous, and helpful in the work of God. O that we were as careful to train and set our families a work in a course of godliness. Christians should reason thus: What honour hath God by making me a Father, a Master of a Family? Every such a one hath a charge of souls, and he is to be responsible. It will be no grief of heart to you, when by your means they become acquainted with God. Ye are my Crown and my rejoicing, says the Apostle of the Thessalonians converted by his Ministry. It will be a crown of honour and rejoicing in the day of the Lord, when you have been instrumental not only for their prosperity in the world, but of their increasing in grace.
1. In our Relations, that we do no good there, in declaring the Judgments of Gods mouth to one another. Surely every Relation is a Talent, and you will be accountable for it, if you do not improve it for your Masters use. The husband is to converse with his wife as a man of knowledg, 1 Pet. 3. 7. and the wife to gain upon the husband, 1 Pet. 3. 2. and both upon the children and servants. The members of every Family should be helping one another in the way to heaven. With what busie diligence doth an Idolatrous Family carry on their way and their course! See