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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. 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.
2. Revenge: the thoughts of it, how sweet are they to a carnal heart! Men dwell upon their discontents and injuries, till like liquors that sour in the Vessel when long kept, they sharpen Revenge. We are apt to concoct Anger into Malice. Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually, he soweth discord, Prov. 6. 14.
2. Revenge: the thoughts of it, how sweet are they to a carnal heart! Men dwell upon their discontents and injuries, till like liquors that sowr in the Vessel when long kept, they sharpen Revenge. We are apt to concoct Anger into Malice. Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually, he soweth discord,