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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. Meditation will fail else. A barren lean soul is unfit to enlarge it self in holy thoughts, shall never grow rich in the spiritual understanding. Col. 3. 6. Let the word of God dwell in you richly, in all knowledge, &c. Men of small substance grow rich by continual saving, and holding together what they have gotten; but if they spend it as fast as they get it, they cannot be rich. Luk. 2. 19. Mary kept all these sayings, and pondered them in her heart.
1. Meditation will fail else. A barren lean soul is unfit to enlarge it self in holy thoughts, shall never grow rich in the spiritual understanding. Col. 3. 6. Let the word of God dwell in you richly, in all knowledg, &c. Men of small substance grow rich by continual saving, and holding together what they have gotten; but if they spend it as fast as they get it, they cannot be rich. Luk. 2. 19. Mary kept all these sayings, and pondered them in her heart.
2. Delectation will grow cold, unless the memory be rubbed up ever and anon. When they fainted under affliction, the cause is intimated, Heb. 12. 5. Have ye forgotten the exhortation, that speaketh unto you as unto children? Distrust in straits, is from the same source, Mar. 8. 13. They remembered not the miracle of the loaves, for their hearts were hardened. Ye see, and hear, and do not remember. David was under great discomfort, till he remembered the years of the right hand of the Most High, Psal. 77. 10.