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Thomas Manton Tuesday!

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I can still remember the day, well over a decade ago I was reading comments on Psalm 119 by my favorite Puritan, Thomas Manton, and ran across this helpful explanation of the exercise of faith. The verse from the psalm is this: 2 Blessed are those who keep his testimonies,
who seek him with their whole heart (esv).

Manton: “FAITH is often expressed by forms of motion: coming, running, going, seeking. Thus is the whole tendency of soul towards God expressed by terms that are proper to outward motion. COMING notes our serious resolution and purpose to make after God. GOING note the practice or progress in that resolution. RUNNING nots the fervour and earnestness of the soul to enjoy God. And SEEKING, that notes our diligence in the use of means.”

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Tuesday? Thomas Manton: A Constant Obedience

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Wicked men have their good moods, and devout pangs in the way to Heaven, but they are not lasting. They will go with God a step or two; but it is said, “He that walketh in the law of the Lord.”

…A man is judged by the tenor of his life, not by one action, but as he holdeth on his was to Heaven (JOB 27:10). Many run well for a while, but are soon out of breath.

“Enoch walked with God three hundred and sixty-five years.”

— comments on Psalm 119:1