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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. The Duties of every day must be carried on with delight. This must be our divertisement, and the refreshment of our other labours, that when tired out with the incumbrances of the world, we may look upon reading, meditating, hearing, as our recreation, and the salt and solace of our lives, that other things may go down the better. The labours of the mind do relieve those of the body, and those of the body those of the mind. Ainsworth saith, the word in the Text signifieth, I will solace and recreate my self; and Psal. 1. 2. His delight is in the law of the Lord, and in that law doth he exercise himself day and night, as was before cited.
2. Especially upon the Lords day: Isa. 58. 13. Thou shalt call the Sabbath a delight; call it so, that is account it so. When our whole time is to be parted into Meditation, and Prayer, and Hearing, and Conference, then it is our advantage to lye in the bosom of God all the day long. A Bell is kept up with less difficulty when it is once raised; and when the heart is once got up, it is the better kept up in an holy delight in God.
2. Especially upon the Lords day: Isa. 58. 13. Thou shalt call the Sabbath a delight; call it so, that is account it so. When our whole time is to be parted into Meditation, and Prayer, and Hearing, and Conference, then it is our advantage to lye in the bosome of God all the day long. A Bell is kept up with less difficulty when it is once raised; and when the heart is once got up, it is the better kept up in an holy delight in God.