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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.
Reas. 1. This is the perfection of our lives, and that which maketh it to be life indeed. Communion with God is the vitality of it, without which we are rather dead than alive. Life natural we have in common with the Beasts and Plants; but in keeping the word, we live the life of God. Eph. 4. 18. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God. To natural men it is a gloomy thing; but to believers this is the life of life, and that which is the joy of their hearts. To increase in stature, and to grow bulky, that is the life of Plants. The greatest and biggest of the kind, are most perfect. To live and enjoy pleasures without remorse, that's the perfection and life of Beasts, that have no conscience, that shall not be called to an account. To gratify present Interests, and to be able to turn and wind worldly affairs, that's the life of carnal men, that have no sense of eternity. But the perfection of the life of man as a reasonable creature, is to measure our actions by Gods word, and to refer them to his glory.
Reas. 1. This is the perfection of our lives, and that which maketh it to be life indeed. Communion with God is the vitality of it, without which we are rather dead than alive. Life natural we have in common with the Beasts and Plants; but in keeping the word, we live the life of God. Eph. 4. 18. Having the understanding darkned, being alienated from the life of God. To natural men it is a gloomy thing; but to believers this is the life of life, and that which is the joy of their hearts. To encrease in stature, and to grow bulky, that is the life of Plants. The greatest and biggest of the kind, are most perfect. To live and enjoy pleasures without remorse, that's the perfection and life of Beasts, that have no conscience, that shall not be called to an account. To gratifie present Interests, and to be able to turn and wind worldly affairs, that's the life of carnal men, that have no sense of eternity. But the perfection of the life of man as a reasonable creature, is to measure our actions by Gods word, and to refer them to his glory.