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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.
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!
1. Either men muse on trifles; all the day their minds are full of chaff and vanity. Oh! hast thou thoughts for other things, and hast thou no thoughts for Gods precepts? Hast thou not a God and a Christ to think of? And is not salvation by him, and everlasting glory, worthy of your choicest thoughts? You have thoughts enough, and to spare, for other things, for base things, for very toys, and why not for God, and the word of God? why not for Christ, and that everlasting Redemption he hath accomplished for us? If a man would throw his meat and drink down the Kennel, rather than give to him that asketh him, the world would cry shame upon him: Will you cast away your thoughts upon idle vanities, rather than God shall have them? Oh shame! your thoughts must be working; what, shall they run waste, and yet God have no turn?