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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. It is their Direction; it is a light that shines in a dark place, 2 Pet. 1. 19. The World is a dark place beset with dangers, and ever and anon we are apt to stumble into the pit of destruction, without taking heed to this light. The Word discovereth to them evils, that they may see them, repent of them, forsake them; and showeth us our ready way to heaven, that we may walk therein. It discovereth the greatest dangers, and pointeth out the surest way to safety and peace. They are called true Laws, and good statutes, Neh. 9. 13. to show the full proportion that they bear to the soul. Verum and Bonum, Truth and Goodness, are proper for our most eminent faculties, the understanding and will. It doth a man's heart good, to study these statutes. A child of God that seeth others stumble and fall, how may he stand and bless God for the direction of the word, that God hath given him counsel in his reins, that he hath a Clue to lead him out of those Labyrinths in which others have lost their way, and know not how to escape!
1. It is their Direction; it is a light that shines in a dark place, 2 Pet. 1. 19. The World is a dark place beset with dangers, and ever and anon we are apt to stumble into the pit of destruction, without taking heed to this light. The Word discovereth to them evils, that they may see them, repent of them, forsake them; and sheweth us our ready way to heaven, that we may walk therein. It discovereth the greatest dangers, and pointeth out the surest way to safety and peace. They are called true Laws, and good statutes, Neh. 9. 13. to shew the full proportion that they bear to the soul. Verum and Bonum, Truth and Goodness, are proper for our most eminent faculties, the understanding and will. It doth a man's heart good, to study these statutes. A child of God that seeth others stumble and fall, how may he stand and bless God for the direction of the word, that God hath given him counsel in his reins, that he hath a Clue to lead him out of those Labyrinths in which others have lost their way, and know not how to escape!