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A51842	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.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.; White, Robert, 1645-1703.; Bates, William, 1625-1699.	1681 (1681)	Wing M526A; ESTC R225740	2,212,336	1,308

stands upon his word more than any thing when Heaven and earth shall pass away and be burnt up like a scroul not a jot of the word either Law or Gospel shall pass away If we did think of this with seriousness then one part of the Word would drive us to another we would run from the Law to the Gospel Sinners could not lye in a carnal state this Law is not only my rule but my judgment and believers could not be so listless and secure and negligent as they are in their holy calling their doom in the Word This would make them seek more earnestly for pardon and grace and make them strictly watch over their hearts and ways Either we do not believe that the Word is true or that God will be so punctual and exact as he hath declared We dream of strange indulgences for which we have no cause or else we would be more frequent at the Throne of Grace and more exact and watchful in the course of our conversations Secondly The next term to be opened is Righteousness another title given to the Word in this Psalm It is so called Heb. 5. 13. Unskilful in the word of righteousness And 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. It is profitable for instruction in righteousness But why is the Word called Righteousness Because it shews how a man shall be justified and how a justified man should approve himself both to God and man 1. It sheweth how a man shall be justified and accepted as righteous before God therefore the Word is called Righteousness This is a great secret and riddle which was hidden from the wise men of the world they could never have found it out by all the profound researches and enquiries of nature into natural things unless the Word of God had made it known it should still have been in the dark For Righteousness to plead for you and to find acceptance alas we should be thinking of going up to Heaven and going down into the deep no no the word is nigh thee Rom. 10. 8. This notion of the Righteousness of Christ was the best notion the world was ever acquainted with that when we all lay guilty obnoxious to the wrath of God and to the revenges of his angry Justice that then the Lord should reveal a righteousness even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Iesus Christ unto all and upon all that believe as the Apostle amplifies it Rom. 3. 22. What a rich and glorious discovery was this of the mind and counsel of God to poor sinners that he hath revealed such a Righteousness 2. The Word is called Righteousness because it shews how a justified man should approve himself both to God and man by a holy conversation It is the rule of moral righteousness 1 Ioh. 3. 8. He is righteous that doth righteousness in the judgment of the Word There is not only righteousness wrought by Christ for believers but also righteousness wrought by Christ in believers when a man doth exercise himself in performing his duties to God and man Use. Well then if we would be skilful in the matters of righteousness 1 Consult often with the Word which is the copy of Gods most righteous will A man needs go no further either for direction quickning or encouragement The world despiseth the plain directions of the Word and crieth up the notion of things and looketh for quainter conceits and things of a more sublime speculation If we should only bring Scripture and urge men by Gods authority and call upon them in Christs name and by Christs arguments this would be too low for them But this is to tax the wisdom of God He that hath the key of David knew what kind of wards would fit the Lock what directions what quickning notions and encouragements were fittest to be used in the case to gain men to a sense of their duty both to God and man and bring them into a way of righteousness 2 Do you manifest the Word to be righteousness Wisdom should be justified of her children Mat. 11. 19. You should evidence it to the carnal world by taking off their prejudices that the Word may be justified The world hath a suspicion now evidence it to the Conscience that it is a holy rule a perfect direction for righteousness The world prieth into the conversation of the Saints they live much by sensible things therefore declare and evidence it to be a righteous thing So much for the Title that is given to the Word of God thy judgments and righteousness Secondly We come now to his act of duty about the Word or the benefit which he desired When I shall have learned By learning he means his attaining not only to the knowledg of the Word but the practice of it It is not a speculative light or a bare notion of things Ioh. 6. 45. Every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh unto me It is such a learning as the effect will necessarily follow such a light and illumination as doth convert the soul and frame our hearts and ways according to the will of God For otherwise if we get understanding of the Word nay if we get it imprinted in our memories it will do us no good without practice Doct. The best of Gods servants are but Scholars and studients in the knowledg and obedience of his Word For saith David which had so much acquaintance When I shall have learned The professors of the Christian Religion were primitively called Disciples or Learners Act. 6. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The multitude of the Disciples there seems to be the true definition of a Church the Genus and Difference The Genus is the community or multitude of men united among themselves as a Corporation City or Houshold The Difference or Form is Disciples those that gave up themselves to Christ to be taught and governed and to be instructed in this way and Doctrine So Act. 11. 26. it is said there The Disciples were called Christians first at Antioch Christians are the Disciples and to difference them from the Disciples of other men they are the Disciples of Christ. 1 The School that 's the Church where there are publick Lectures read to all visible Professors But the Elect getting saving knowledg they are not only taught of men but taught of God they have an inward light 2 The Book that 's the Scripture which is able to make wise to salvation to make the man of God perfect 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. Some run to tradition others cry up their own reason to the wrong of the Scripture they make Christ to be their Disciple rather than they his when they will not receive things upon his testimony and revelation as the Socinians 3 The Teacher is either supreme or subordinate The supreme teacher is Christ he is the great Prophet of the Church so it is said Ioh. 6. 45. They shall be taught of God This is such a teacher that

to the other they are left to arbitrement to abstain and use for edification according to the various postures and circumstances of times places and persons but so that we should never take from any believer or suffer to be taken from him that liberty which Christ hath purchased for us by his blood It is a licentious abuse of Power not to be endured We are to stand fast in that liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free Gal. 5. 1. the Apostle mainly intends it of the observance of the ceremonial Law which was a bondage because of the trouble and expence O but then the price wherewith Christ bought our freedom should make us more chary of it and stand in the defence of it with greater courage and constancy whatever it cost us The Captain told Paul that his liberty as a Roman was obtained with a great sum Acts 22. 28. Now the Court of Rome doth challenge such a power that it commandeth and forbiddeth those things which God hath left free as distinction of days meats marriage according to their own pleasure 1 Tim. 4. 3. Nay sometimes dispenseth with that which God hath expresly commanded or forbidden and then what doth it but make him equal with God yea superior to him That Physician possibly may be born with that doth only burden his Patient with some needless prescriptions if for the main he be out faithful but if he should mingle poyson with his Medicaments and also still tire out his Patient with new prescriptions that are altogether troublesome and costly and nauseous and for the number of them dangerous to life it behoveth his Patient to look to his health And this is the very case The Pope doth sometimes make bold with dispensing with Gods Laws and doth extinguish and choak Christian Religion by thousands of Impositions of indifferent things which is not to be endured And then as to the Authority it self according to the eminency of the Lawgiver so is his Authority more or less absolute Therefore when a mortal man shall challenge an Authority so absolute as to be above controul and to give no account of his actions and it is not lawful to say to him What dost thou or enquire into the reason or complain of the injury this is that which the Churches of Christ cannot endure therefore they had just ground and cause of withdrawing and making up a body by themselves rather than yield to so great encroachments upon Christian liberty to receive the Decrees of one Church and that so erroneous and imposing without examination or leave of complaint 3. That which grieveth and did grieve and cause this withdrawing is both Papal Infallibility and freedom from error That any Church which is made up of fallible men should arrogate this to themselves especially the Roman which of all Churches that ever Christ had upon earth is most corrupt that they should fasten this Infallibility to the Papal chair which is the fountain of those corruptions this they look upon as a great contradiction not only to faith but to sense and as hard a condition as if I were bound when I saw a man sick of the Plague and the swelling and tokens of death upon him yet to say he is immortal nay that that part wherein the disease is seated is immortal This was the burden that was imposed upon the people of God that they should yield to this Secondly Come to their Heresie in Doctrine To rake in this filth would take up more time than will comport with your patience It is almost every where corrupt the only sound part in the whole frame is the Doctrine of the Trinity which yet the Schoolmen have intangled with many nice and unprofitable disputes which render that glorious and blessed mystery less venerable We must do them right also in this that they grant the doctrine of Christ's Satisfaction and that he not only dyed for our good but in our stead and bore our punishment they grant the truth of it but deny the sufficiency of it so mightily weaken if not destroy it while they think it must be pieced up by the sacrifice of the Mass human satisfaction by the merit of works Purgatory and Indulgences but in all other points of Religion how corrupt are they That which most offends the Reformed Churches is their equalling Traditions with the Scripture yea their decrying and taxing the Scriptures as obscure insufficient and as a nose of wax pliable to several purposes Their mangling the doctrine of Justification which we own to consist in the imputation of Christs righteousness received by faith and they plead in the works of righteousness which we have done and so if the Apostle may be Judg make void the grace of God Gal. 2. 21. And then the merit of works not expecting the reward of them from God's mercy which becometh Christian humility but from the condignity of the work it self which bewrayeth their Pharisaical pride We say that sins are remitted by God alone exercising his mercy in Christ through the Gospel towards those that believe and repent But the Papists say pardon may be had by virtue of Indulgences if a man give such a price do this or that say so many Ave-maries and Pater-nosters though far enough from true faith and repentance The one savours of the Gospel the other of the Tyranny of the Pope of Rome that hath set himself in the place of God and substituted his Laws instead of the Laws of Christ. So their portentous doctrine of Transubstantiation that a Priest should make his Maker and a people eat their God I could represent the difference of both Churches both in excess and defect In excess what they believe over and above the Christian faith The true Church believes with the Scripture and with the primitive Churches that there is but one God Father Son and Holy Ghost to be religiously invocated and worshipped They plead the Creature Angels and Saints are to be both religiously invocated and worshipped The Scripture shews that there is but one Surety and Mediator between God and man he that was both God and man Jesus Christ. They say that the Saints are Mediators of intercession with God by whose merits and prayers we obtain the grace and audience of our supplications The Scripture saith that Christs Propitiatory Sacrifice offered on the Cross is sufficient for the plenary remission of all our sins They say the Sacrifice of the Mass which the Priest under the species of bread and wine substantially that is by consecration into the body and blood of Christ offered to God that this is available for the remission of sins both of quick and dead That the remission of sins obtained by Christ and offered in the Gospel to the penitent believer is bestowed and applied by faith this is the opinion of the Scripture They say remission of sins is obtained and applied by their own satisfactions and Papal Indulgences That true repentance consists in

inconsistent with an unholy life p. 207 Rule must always be set before us p. 208 why ibid. Bless God for a Rule and walk exactly by the Rule p. 807 698 Enemies to the word as a Rule 1 they that set up Reason instead of the word 2 Passions and Lusts 3 Example 4 they that go to Witches c. 5. they that expect new Revelations p. 698 Rulers when religious a signal Blessing to a people p. 145 560 Rulers are not to be provoked p. 996 Running the ways of Gods Commandments what it imports p. 225 S. SAcrament what it signifies p. 699 Saints love the word 1 because their hearts are suited to it 2 they have tasted its goodness p 627 Sacrifices three things required in them p. 722 Safety none in Apostacy from the truth but Perseverance in it p. 788 637 It lies in two things p. 642 Sanctification of Afflictions a greater mercy thanDeliverance outof them p 470 592 it hath 2 parts p. 1040 Sanction of the Law inPromises and Threatnings p. 350 Salvation the word variously taken in Scripture p. 536 537. Temporal and eternal p. 1035. 314 It denotes sometimes temporal deliverance p. 830 Salvation is far from the wicked p. 980. both in a temporal and eternal Notion ibid. 1081 1087 Salvation is the fruit of mercy p. 314. 315 Satisfaction in Gods providential government p. 542 It is not to be had without enjoyment of God p. 13. 386. Qn. what it is that will satisfie and content our Souls p. 926 Satans design in afflicting Gods people p. 538 He is subtle and diligent in tempting p. 1105 Satans baits are Profit and Pleasure p. 85 Satan resembled by lying p. 188 Scandalous Terms put upon the best parts of Religion p. 337 Scandals given either by word or deed p. ●…030 Scandals never fall out in the Church but some notable woe follows p. 867 Scandals an enemy to Perseverance p. 212 Scandal is either Active or Passive p. 1022. 1029 Schism a great evil p. 201 Protestants not guilty of schism in separating from Papists and Popery p. 201. 202. Scorns and scoffs must not draw us from Obedience p 337 why Religion is scorned p. 338 Scorn a grievous Temptation p 339 vid. Contempt Scripture reveals 1 Reconciliation 2 eternal Life not elsewhere revealed p 624 625 Scripture is the Churches Book p 41 It is to be highly prized p 645 In opposition to 1 Tradition 2 carnal Reason p 41 It s Excellency p 66 67 It is a Record and a Calendar p 77 Qu. how we know the Scriptures to be Gods word p. 960 961 vid. word of God It gives directions in all Cases p. 153 It is for the strong as well as for the weak p. 697 Scripture before it was compleat as now yet had promises for support of the Soul p. 181 Scripture Truths of two sorts p. 888 Scripture affords 1 true Doctrine 2 true Piety 3 true Consolation p 879 622 Four main ends of Gods giving the Scripture 1 to secure the Truth 2 that it might last to all Ages 3 for converting sinners 4 for trial of Faith and Manners p. 694 6●…2 Seasons of mercy neither too soon nor too late p. 551 Seasons when God eminently calls to consider our ways p. 401 Seasons for particular duties p. 445 637 638 925 374 Sealing to Gods Truth as Witnesses what it is p. 832 832 Searching the heart a mark of one that hath Respect to all Gods Commandements p. 36 Seventimes denotes many times Numerus definitus pro indefinito p. 1013 Secret Prayer as well as publick a Duty p. 904 021 It hath Promises of Reward p. 921 Arguments to press to secret Prayer p. 922 Secret Duties argue sincerity p. 374 Security carnal will leave us ashamed at last p. 786 It is a note of pride p. 521 It 's a cause of delaying Repentance p. 408 Seducers the most dangerous Company p. 777 See a man may see and yet be blind p. 617 Seeds two seeds at enmity from the beginning p 414 326 Seeking God implies that God is not wholly gone p 927 Seeking God arises from a sence of the want of God p 11 When we find not God in one Ordinance we must seek him in others p. 12 It 's the end of our Creation ibid. To seek any thing from God above God more than God or not for God is brutish p. 13 It is a mark of election to seek God p. 14 It 's not in vain to seek God p. 13 how to seek him p. 927 Six Arguments to move us to seek God p. 14 Encouragements to seek Gods Favour p. 927 Directions for a due seeking of God p. 14 Seeking God the last way of seeking our selves p. 14 Gods Children are a Generation of seekers p. 57 58 59 922 Self-Conceit p. 296 Self-denial a main part of wisdom p. 641 Self self-fulness leaves no room for Grace p. 29 Self-seeking argues false Zeal p. 856 Self-Confidence a Reason of Apostacy p. 213 Sense of Gods goodness what it is why we must keep a sense of it p. 472 473 474 Sense and Faith are opposed p. 546 Sense of sin renders Gods Mercies exceeding great p. 994 Comforts from Sense are base and dreggy p. 593 Outward Senses betray the heart p. 278 Sense discovers the vanity of created Excellency p. 616 Senses spiritual what they are p. 671 672 How they differ from the natural Senses p. 672 673 Sentence of our State and Actions is by the judgment of the word p. 38 39 Servant of God who he is p. 289 a good Argument p. 289 Servant of God A good Plea for Deliverance why p. 610 846 611 Arguments to perswade us to clear up this Relation p. 612 637 638 Characters of Gods Servants 846 847 851 514 Shame two fold p. 36 it entred with sin p. 37●… 214 215 Shame is caused by Disappointments p. 522 785 215 216 Shame is a fear of just Reproof p. 534 We may be ashamed either before our own selves or others p. 534 and that upon the account either 1. of Scandal or 2. of punishment ibid. Sheep are creatures subject to stray p. 1099 Man compared to a sheep in several Respects p. 1101 Christ a tender Shepherd of straying sheep p. 1107 Shield God is the Shield of his people and what that imports p. 766 Sight of God to walk as in Gods sight a rule of sincerity p. 1051 It is a good means for keeping Gods Precepts ibid. Sight of Believers and Unbelievers how they differ p. 617 Sight spiritual denotes Faith p. 672 Simple Simplicity in a good or evil Sense p. 889 Sin is not imputed to the renewed p. 17 Sins incident to a condition of trouble p. 843 Sin separates from God p. 18 It is contrary to the blessed Trinity p. 20 Contrary to the New-Nature p. 21 It is of an encroaching Nature p. 21 In sin three things 1. the Fault 2. the Guilt 3. the Blot p. 21 185 Sin never goes single p. 317. v. other mens sins Sin