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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. Attention. Men remember what they heed and regard. Prov. 4. 21. Attend to my sayings, keep them in the midst of thy heart. Where there is attention, there will be retention. Oh lay up truths with much earnestness and care. Sensitive memory is seated in the hinder part of the head, as one would say in a Chamber backward, from the noise of the street. Now, oh lay up Truth safe, and lay it out when ever you have need. But Rational memory lieth near the Understanding and Conscience, in the midst of thine heart. Reverence in the admission of the word, helps us in the keeping of it. Heb. 2. 1. Let us take heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time they slip from us. If we did receive it with more heed, we would retain it with more constancy, lay them up, keep them choicely.
1. Attention. Men remember what they heed and regard. Prov. 4. 21. Attend to my sayings, keep them in the midst of thy heart. Where there is attention, there will be retention. Oh lay up truths with much earnestness and care. Sensitive memory is seated in the hinder part of the head, as one would say in a Chamber backward, from the noise of the street. Now, oh lay up Truth safe, and lay it out when ever you have need. But Rational memory lyeth near the Understanding and Conscience, in the midst of thine heart. Reverence in the admission of the word, helps us in the keeping of it. Heb. 2. 1. Let us take heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time they slip from us. If we did receive it with more heed, we would retain it with more constancy, lay them up, keep them choicely.
2. Affection, that is a great friend to memory. What we esteem most, we best remember. Omnia quae curant senes meminerunt: An old man will not forget where he laid his bag of gold. Delight and Love will renew and revive the object upon our thoughts. Here in the Text we have this Truth asserted, I will delight my self in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. Affection to Truths cometh from the application. In a public Edict a man will be sure to carry away what is proper to his case.