A51842:739
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.
First, The word of God deserveth it.
1. In regard of the Author, they delight in it for the Author's sake, because it is the signification of his mind; as a Letter from a beloved friend is very welcome to us. Aristotle mentioning ⟨p. 97⟩the causes of delight, saith, Rhet. 1. cap. 11. [Greek or Hebrew]. Lovers are mightily pleased when they hear any thing of the party beloved, or receive any thing from them, a Letter or a Token. The Word is God's Epistle and Love-Letter to our selves; it is the more welcome for his sake. The contrary God complaineth of. Hos. 8. 12. I have written to them the great things of my Law, but they were counted as a strange thing. God is the Author, whosoever be the Pen-man; it is a Writing from him to us. Now to be strangers to it, or little conversant about it, argueth some contempt of God. As to slight the Letter of a Friend, showeth little esteem of the Writer. But now the Saints put it into their bosoms, view it with delight, it is Gods Epistle.
1. In regard of the Author, they delight in it for the Author's sake, because it is the signification of his mind; as a Letter from a beloved friend is very welcome to us. Aristotle mentioning ⟨p. 97⟩the causes of delight, saith, Rhet. 1. cap. 11. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Lovers are mightily pleased when they hear any thing of the party beloved, or receive any thing from them, a Letter or a Token. The Word is God's Epistle and Love-Letter to our selves; it is the more welcome for his sake. The contrary God complaineth of. Hos. 8. 12. I have written to them the great things of my Law, but they were counted as a strange thing. God is the Author, whosoever be the Pen-man; it is a Writing from him to us. Now to be strangers to it, or little conversant about it, argueth some contempt of God. As to slight the Letter of a Friend, sheweth little esteem of the Writer. But now the Saints put it into their bosomes, view it with delight, it is Gods Epistle.