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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. There is nothing in the enjoyment of worldly things, but they have it more amply in the exactest and sincerest way of enjoyment by the word, and walking in the way of its precepts. Satan's baits whereby he leads men to sin, are Pleasure and Profit; when bonum honestum, the good of Honesty and Duty is declined, there remains nothing but bonum utile and jucundum, the good of Pleasure and Profit. If we be moved with these things, it is good to look there where we may have them at the highest rate, and in the most sincere manner. Now it is the word of God believed and obeyed, which yieldeth us the greatest profit, and the greatest ⟨p. 86⟩You have both in one Verse, Psal. 19. 10. More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold: sweeter also than the honey and the honey-comb. Because of the Profit it is compared to Gold, and because of the Sweetness and Pleasure we have by it, 'tis compared to Honey.
2. There is nothing in the enjoyment of worldly things, but they have it more amply in the exactest and sincerest way of enjoyment by the word, and walking in the way of its precepts. Satans baits whereby he leads men to sin, are Pleasure and Profit; when bonum honestum, the good of Honesty and Duty is declined, there remains nothing but bonum utile and jucundum, the good of Pleasure and Profit. If we be moved with these things, it is good to look there where we may have them at the highest rate, and in the most sincere manner. Now it is the word of God believed and obeyed, which yieldeth us the greatest profit, and the greatest ⟨p. 86⟩You have both in one Verse, Psal. 19. 10. More to be desired are they than gold, yea than much fine gold: sweeter also than the honey and the honey-comb. Because of the Profit it is compared to Gold, and because of the Sweetness and Pleasure we have by it, 'tis compared to Honey.