A51842:731
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. In hearing of the Word. The Command is, James 1. 19. Wherefore be swift to hear. The Saints have had experiment of the power of it, and therefore delight in it. I was glad when they said, Come, and let us go up unto the house of the Lord, Psal. 122. 1. You should be glad of these occasions of hearing, not as with the Minstrel, to please the ear, but to warm the heart. Seeing is in Heaven, Hearing in the Churches upon earth; then Vision, now Hearing.
2. In hearing of the Word. The Command is, James 1. 19. Wherefore be swift to hear. The Saints have had experiment of the power of it, and therefore delight in it. I was glad when they said, Come, and let us go up unto the house of the Lord, Psal. 122. 1. You should be glad of these occasions of hearing, not as with the Minstril, to please the ear, but to warm the heart. Seeing is in Heaven, Hearing in the Churches upon earth; then Vision, now Hearing.
3. In conferring of it often. What a man delighteth in, he will be talking of; so should you at home, abroad, Deut. 6. 7. Thou shalt be talking of them when thou sittest in thy house, and as thou walkest by the way, seasoning thy journey. He that would have God to be in his journey, as travelling and walking abroad, should be speaking of divine things.