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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.
(1.) The veil of Ignorance. Though man hath Reason, and is capable of understanding the sense and importance of the words that are used about the Mysteries of godliness, yea and the matter too; yet he gets not the saving-knowledge of them by his natural abilities. There is a Grammatical knowledge, and a Spiritual knowledge; a man may know things Grammatically and literally, that is ignorant of them Spiritually. As a child may read the letters and words, that doth not conceive of the sense; so a man may know what is said concerning God and Christ, and Sin, and Grace, the vanity of the creature, the excellency of heaven, and have yet no saving-knowledge of these things; and therefore the Scripture useth the expression, that they oversee in seeing, as Acts 28. 26. Hearing ye shall hear, and not understand; seeing ye shall see, and not perceive. Though Truths are never so plainly delivered, never so powerfully pressed; and though they are capable to understand the words, yet they do not take in the truth into their hearts, so as to profit by it. So Deut. 29. 2, 3, 4. Ye have seen, yet ye have not an heart to see. Most will declaim against the vanity of the creature, evil of sin; but they do not see with an affective heart-piercing light; they have on them the veil of spiritual ignorance.
(1.) The vail of Ignorance. Though man hath Reason, and is capable of understanding the sense and importance of the words that are used about the Mysteries of godliness, yea and the matter too; yet he gets not the saving-knowledg of them by his natural abilities. There is a Grammatical knowledg, and a Spiritual knowledg; a man may know things Grammatically and literally, that is ignorant of them Spiritually. As a child may read the letters and words, that doth not conceive of the sense; so a man may know what is said concerning God and Christ, and Sin, and Grace, the vanity of the creature, the excellency of heaven, and have yet no saving-knowledg of these things; and therefore the Scripture useth the expression, that they oversee in seeing, as Acts 28. 26. Hearing ye shall hear, and not understand; seeing ye shall see, and not perceive. Though Truths are never so plainly delivered, never so powerfully pressed; and though they are capable to understand the words, yet they do not take in the truth into their hearts, so as to profit by it. So