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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.
3. Of the Truths which we understand and believe. In Meditation we suppose the object understood; for it is the work of study to search it out, of Meditation to enforce and apply it; and we suppose it believed and granted to be a Truth. The work now is to improve our assent, that it may have an answerable force and efficacy upon the soul.
4. It follows in the description, For practical uses and purposes. Meditation is not to store the head with notions, but to better the heart. We meditate of God, that we may love him, and fear him; of sin, that we may abhor it; of hell, that we may avoid it; of heaven, that we may pursue it: Still the end is practical, to quicken us to greater diligence and care in the heavenly life.
USE 1. To reprove those that are seldom in this work. Worldly cares, and sloth, and ease divert us: if we had an heart, we would have time and leisure. The clean beasts did chew the cud. We should go over, and over, and over again the Truths of God in our thoughts. But alas!
USE 1. To reprove those that are seldom in this work. Worldly cares, and sloath, and ease divert us: if we had an heart, we would have time and leasure. The clean beasts did chew the cud. We should go over, and over, and over again the Truths of God in our thoughts. But alas!