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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. Dogmatical, or the searching out of a Truth in order to knowledge; proving what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, Rom. 12. 2. This is study, and differeth from meditation in the object, and supposeth the matter we search after to be unknown, either in whole or in part; whereas practical Meditation is the inculcation or whetting of a known truth upon the soul: and it differs in the end; the end of Study is Information, and the end of Meditation is Practice, or a work upon the affections. Study is like a Winter-Sun, that shineth, but ⟨p. 91⟩warmeth not; but Meditation is like blowing up the fire, where we do not mind the blaze but the heat. The end of study is to hoard up Truth; but of Meditation, to lay it forth in Conference or holy Conversation. In Study we are rather like Vintners, that take in Wine to store themselves for sale; in Meditation, like those that buy Wine for their own use and comfort. A Vintners Cellar may be better stored than a Noble-mans: The Student may have more of notion and knowledge; but the practical Christian hath more of taste and refreshment.
1. Dogmatical, or the searching out of a Truth in order to knowledg; proving what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, Rom. 12. 2. This is study, and differeth from meditation in the object, and supposeth the matter we search after to be unknown, either in whole or in part; whereas practical Meditation is the inculcation or whetting of a known truth upon the soul: and it differs in the end; the end of Study is Information, and the end of Meditation is Practice, or a work upon the affections. Study is like a Winter-Sun, that shineth, but ⟨p. 91⟩warmeth not; but Meditation is like blowing up the fire, where we do not mind the blaze but the heat. The end of study is to hoard up Truth; but of Meditation, to lay it forth in Conference or holy Conversation. In Study we are rather like Vintners, that take in Wine to store themselves for sale; in Meditation, like those that buy Wine for their own use and comfort. A Vintners Cellar may be better stored than a Noble-mans: The Student may have more of notion and knowledg; but the practical Christian hath more of taste and refreshment.