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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.
(3.) The veil of Prejudice and corrupt affections. The passions of the mind, Love and Fear, Desire and Anger, hinder us from judging aright in the things of God. Our hearts are overcast with strong affections to the world, and so cannot clearly judg either of practical truths, or of the controversies of the age. Not of practical truths: When Christ had taught that they could not serve God and Mammon; it is said Luk. 16. 14. And the pharisees that were covetous, derided him. Holy mortifying truths are unpleasing to a carnal ear, though they be represented with never so much evidence. How will men distinguish themselves out of their duty! They shift, and stretch, and turn and wind hither and thither, and prove truth to be no truth, rather than part with their lusts. So present truths, as the Apostle calls them, 2 Pet. 1. 12. when the dust of Interest is raised, are not discerned. The Orthodoxy of the world is usually an age too short. 2 Cor. 4. 4. The god of this world hath blinded their eyes.
(3.) The vail of Prejudice and corrupt affections. The passions of the mind, Love and Fear, Desire and Anger, hinder us from judging aright in the things of God. Our hearts are overcast with strong affections to the world, and so cannot clearly judg either of practical truths, or of the controversies of the age. Not of practical truths: When Christ had taught that they could not serve God and Mammon; it is said Luk. 16. 14. And the pharisees that were covetous, derided him. Holy mortifying truths are unpleasing to a carnal ear, though they be represented with never so much evidence. How will men distinguish themselves out of their duty! They shift, and stretch, and turn and wind hither and thither, and prove truth to be no truth, rather than part with their lusts. So present truths, as the Apostle calls them, 2 Pet. 1. 12. when the dust of Interest is raised, are not discerned. The Orthodoxy of the world is usually an age too short. 2 Cor. 4. 4. The god of this world hath blinded their eyes.