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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. 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?
2. Or else men muse on that which is evil. There are many sins engross the thoughts.
2. Or else men muse on that which is evil. There are many sins ingross the thoughts.
1. Uncleanness sets up a stage in the heart, whereon a polluted Fancy personates and acts over the pleasures of that sin. Our thoughts are often Panders to our lust. 2 Pet. 2. 14. Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin. The unclean rolling of fancy on the beauty of women, is forbid, Mat. 5. 28. He that looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.