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Thomas Manton praised the Psalmist for his succinctness, for avoiding obscurity, and for “advancing practical holiness.” Psalm 119, for Manton, captures these attributes better than perhaps any other. Throughout his lifetime, he wrote more than a hundred sermons on Psalm 119. This volume—the first of three on Psalm 119—contains the first fifty-two sermons which explore law, grace, and the Word of...

dangers, they like none of that: Ps. 106:24, ‘Yea, they despised the pleasant land, and believed not his word.’ The land was a good land, but the way to it was through a howling wilderness. When they heard of the strength and stature of the men, their fortifications, they fell into passion and murmur, and gave over the pursuit of Canaan. Heaven is a good place, but men must get to it with such difficulty, therefore they are loath to be at the cost. Men would be happy with that kind of happiness which
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