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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.
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.
4. In meditating and exercising his mind upon it. Psal. 1. 2. He delighteth in the law of God, and in that law doth he meditate day and night. Delight causeth a pause or consistency of mind: as the Glutton rolleth the sweet morsel under his tongue, and is loth to let it go; so a godly man's thoughts will run along with his delight. Clean beasts chew the cud; God's children will be ruminating, going over the word again and again.
5. In Practice. This Delight is not in bare speculation; so Hypocrites have their tastes, and their flashes; but in believing, practising, obeying. Psal. 119. 14. I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies. Delight breedeth obedience, and is increased and doubled by it. 'Tis not the delight which an ordinary beholder taketh in a rare piece of painting, merely to admire the Art; but the delight which an Artist taketh in imitating it, and copying it out. Here in the Text it is in thy Statutes. A gracious heart is alike affected with the Rule, as the Promise; not only with discoveries of Grace, but discoveries of duty.
5. In Practice. This Delight is not in bare speculation; so Hypocrites have their tasts, and their flashes; but in believing, practising, obeying.