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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.
2. We have deserved the contrary; we have put our selves out of Gods protection, by sin; death way-laid us when we were in our Mothers womb; and as soon as we were born, there was a sentence in force against us; death came upon all, for that all have sinned, Rom. 5. 12. and still we continue the forfeiture, and every day provoke God to cut us off; so that it is a kind of pardoning-mercy that continueth us every moment. Of this we are most sensible in case of danger and sickness, when there is but a step between us and death: for then the old bond beginneth to be put in suit, and God cometh to execute the sentence of the law, and deliverance in such a case is called forgiveness and remission, and that even to the wicked and impenitent; as Psal. 78. 38. And he being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not; it is called a remission improperly, because it was a reprieve for the time from the temporal judgment, it was not an executing the sentence, or a destroying the sinner presently; and that not from any thing in the sinner, but from Gods pity over him as his creature. But now a godly man hath a true pardon renewed at such time, and he is loved from the grave, for so it is in the Hebrew, Isa. 38. 17. Thou hast loved my soul from the pit of destruction. To be loved out of a danger, and loved out of a sickness, oh that's a blessed thing!
2. We have deserved the contrary; we have put our selves out of Gods protection, by sin; death way-layed us when we were in our Mothers womb; and as soon as we were born, there was a sentence in force against us; death came upon all, for that all have sinned, Rom. 5. 12. and still we continue the forfeiture, and every day provoke God to cut us off; so that it is a kind of pardoning-mercy that continueth us every moment. Of this we are most sensible in case of danger and sickness, when there is but a step between us and death: for then the old bond beginneth to be put in suit, and God cometh to execute the sentence of the law, and deliverance in such a case is called forgiveness and remission, and that even to the wicked and impenitent; as