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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.
PSAL. CXIX. 16. I will delight my self in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
DAVID had spoken much of his respect to the Word, both as to his former practice, and future Resolutions. A godly man, the more good he doth, the more he desireth, delighteth, and resolveth to do. Spiritual affections grow upon us by practice and much exercise. The graces of the Spirit, and the duties of Religion, do every one fortify and strengthen one another; lose one, and lose all; keep one, and keep all. Meditation breedeth delight, and delight helpeth memory, and practice. He had said, I will meditate on thy precepts; and now, I will delight my self in thy statutes; and that produceth a further benefit, I will not forget thy word.
DAVID had spoken much of his respect to the Word, both as to his former practice, and future Resolutions. A godly man, the more good he doth, the more he desireth, delighteth, and resolveth to do. Spiritual affections grow upon us by practice and much exercise. The graces of the Spirit, and the duties of Religion, do every one fortifie and strengthen one another; lose one, and lose all; keep one, and keep all. Meditation breedeth delight, and delight helpeth memory, and practice. He had said, I will meditate on thy precepts; and now, I will delight my self in thy statutes; and that produceth a further benefit, I will not forget thy word.
The Spiritual Life is refreshed with change, as well as the Natural; but it is with change of exercise, not of affection. There is Hearing, Praying, Conferring, Meditating, and all with delight: for when one Fontinel is drawn dry, we may as the Lamb doth, suck another that will yield new supply and sweetness. David had spoken of his various exercises about the word, in the use of all which he would maintain a spiritual delight.