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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. Because of the suitableness of these things to the new nature. Every thing hath a kind of joy when it enjoys that which is good for it; the ground doth pleasantly receive a shower of rain after drought; the natural man eateth and drinketh, and his heart is filled with gladness: So the spiritual man is affected with that which is agreeable to the divine nature. Every thing is preferred according to the suitableness and proportion which it carrieth to our necessities and desires. The Cock in the Fable preferred a Barley-corn before a Jewel; the Barleycorn is more suitable to its natural appetite. So believers have not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, 2 Cor. 2. 12. therefore the way of Gods Testimonies is more suitable and proportionable to that nature which they have. Their wealth and worldly things they indeed suit with the sensitive nature, but that is kept under, therefore the prevalent inclination is to the word more than to the world.
1. Because of the sutableness of these things to the new nature. Every thing hath a kind of joy when it enjoys that which is good for it; the ground doth pleasantly receive a shower of rain after drowth; the natural man eateth and drinketh, and his heart is filled with gladness: So the spiritual man is affected with that which is agreeable to the divine nature. Every thing is preferred according to the sutableness and proportion which it carrieth to our necessities and desires. The Cock in the Fable preferred a Barley-corn before a Jewel; the Barleycorn is more sutable to its natural appetite. So believers have not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, 2 Cor. 2. 12. therefore the way of Gods Testimonies is more sutable and proportionable to that nature which they have. Their wealth and worldly things they indeed sute with the sensitive nature, but that is kept under, therefore the prevalent inclination is to the word more than to the world.