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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.
Doct. 1. That we need that God should open our eyes, if we would have a right understanding of his word.
1. What is meant by opening the eyes. 2. The necessity of such a work in order to a right understanding of the word of God.
I. What is meant by opening the eyes. Before I come to the particular explication of the terms, let me premise two observations.
1. The Saints do not complain of the obscurity of the Law, but of their own blindness. The Psalmist doth not say, Lord make a plainer Law, but Lord open mine eyes: blind men might as well complain of God, that he doth not make a Sun whereby they might see. The word is a light that shineth in a dark place, 2 Pet. 1. 19. There is no want of light in the Scripture, but there is a veil of darkness upon our hearts; so that if in this clear light we cannot see, the defect is not in the word, but in our selves.
1. The Saints do not complain of the obscurity of the Law, but of their own blindness. The Psalmist doth not say, Lord make a plainer Law, but Lord open mine eyes: blind men might as well complain of God, that he doth not make a Sun whereby they might see. The word is a light that shineth in a dark place,