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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. It quickeneth us to love and serve God, who is the strength of our lives, and the length of our days, Deut. 30. 20. Thy life is wholly in Gods hands: Man cannot add a cubit to his stature, nor make one hair white or black at his own pleasure. It is the Lords Providential influence that keepeth thee alive; in point of gratitude thou shouldst serve him: Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live. But I may urge also in point of hope, Gods servants can best recommend themselves to his care and keeping by prayer, and expect to walk continually under divine protection. Those that provoke God continually, they may be continued by the bounty and indulgence of his providence; but yet they can look for no such thing; and in the issue it proveth to be in wrath, for their sins are more, and judgments greater: it is but to treasure up wrath to the day of wrath.
2. It quickneth us to love and serve God, who is the strength of our lives, and the length of our days, Deut. 30. 20. Thy life is wholly in Gods hands: Man cannot add a cubit to his stature, nor make one hair white or black at his own pleasure. It is the Lords Providential influence that keepeth thee alive; in point of gratitude thou shouldst serve him: Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live. But I may urge also in point of hope, Gods servants can best recommend themselves to his care and keeping by prayer, and expect to walk continually under divine protection. Those that provoke God continually, they may be continued by the bounty and indulgence of his providence; but yet they can look for no such thing; and in the issue it proveth to be in wrath, for their sins are more, and judgments greater: it is but to treasure up wrath to the day of wrath.
3. If life temporal be the fruit of Gods bounty, much more life eternal. Rom. 6. 23. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. One is wages, the other a gift.