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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.
SERMON XIX.
PSAL. CXIX. 18. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy Law.
THE Heathens thought that man had not a power over his life, but a power over his actions: Quod vivamus Deorum munus est, quod bene vivamus nostrum. But the Psalmist acknowledgeth God in both: Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live and keep thy law; that he could not live nor keep the word without Gods grace. This latter he amplifieth in this Verse, that he was so far from keeping it, that he could not so much as know it savingly and practically, without divine grace. Lord open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy Law. Here is, 1. A Request, Open thou mine eyes. 2. The Reason, from the End, Benefit, and Fruit of it, That I may, or then I shall behold wondrous things out of thy Law.
In which Reason is intimated the Necessity of Divine Illumination, and then the Profit of it. 1. The Necessity, That I may behold, &c. i. e. otherwise I cannot. 2. The Profit, Then I shall behold wondrous things out of thy Law.