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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.
(2.) Scriptural truths are more sublime than other truths, and do ennoble Reason with the knowledge of them, Deut. 4. 6. Surely this great Nation is a wise and an understanding people. Such doctrines as we meet with in the word of God concerning. Angels and the Souls of men, the Creation and Government of all things, the Redemption of men, must needs affect the heart, and breed a joy in the view and contemplation of them.
(2.) Scriptural truths are more sublime than other truths, and do ennoble Reason with the knowledg of them, Deut. 4. 6. Surely this great Nation is a wise and an understanding people. Such doctrines as we meet with in the word of God concerning. Angels and the Souls of men, the Creation and Government of all things, the Redemption of men, must needs affect the heart, and breed a joy in the view and contemplation of them.
(3.) Because these truths are suitable to our necessities. To every man that hath a conscience, it cannot but be very pleasing to hear of a way how he may come to the pardon of sins, and sound peace of conscience, solid perfection, and eternal glory. Man is naturally under fears of death, Rom. 1. 32. and would be glad of a pardon; weak and unable to find out or attain to moral perfection, would be glad of an exact rule, and gropeth and feeleth about for an everlasting happiness, Acts 17. 27. So far as any thing is found to this purpose in the writings of men, they have a marvellous force and influence upon us. Any beam of this truth scattered in Plato or Socrates, of mans Reconciliation with a holy and just God, there is nothing in their writings; the then World was under perplexity. But yet of Moral Perfection, and an Eternal state of Blessedness, there were some glimmerings. Now when these are represented to the understanding with such evidence and satisfaction as they are in the Scriptures, where you have the only sufficient direction to true Happiness, no wonder if they are greedily catched at. Now this delight (though good) I speak not of, because it may be in Temporaries, who have a taste of the good word, to invite them to seek for more,