A01981:1738
The saints sacrifice
The saints sacrifice: or, a commentary on the CXVI. Psalm Which is, a gratulatory psalm, for deliverance from deadly distress. By William Gouge, D.D.The saints sacrifice: or, a commentarie on the CXVI. Psalme Which is, a gratulatory psalme, for deliverance from deadly distresse. By William Gouge, D.D.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1632
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1I Be well instructed in those privileges and prerogatives which make the Church worthy to be delighted in. Thus will thy delight be more solid and stable.
1I Be well instructed in those priviledges and prerogatives which make the Church worthy to be delighted in. Thus will thy delight be more solid and stable.
- 1How delight in the Church may be wrought.How delight in the Church may bee wrought.
2 Oft meditate thereon, so will thy delight be the more inflamed: Serious meditation on that which works affection, is as bellows to a fire, it enkindles it, and makes it flame out.
2 Oft meditate thereon, so will thy delight be the more inflamed: Serious meditation on that which works affection, is as bellowes to a fire, it enkindles it, and makes it flame out.
3 With-draw thy heart from other contrary objects which work a corrupt delight therein. As the heart of him that is set on strange women, will thereby be alienated from his wife: So delight in the world and the vanities thereof will dim, yea clean put out our delight in the Church.
3 With-draw thy heart from other contrary objects which worke a corrupt delight therein. As the heart of him that is set on strange women, will thereby be alienated from his wife: So delight in the world and the vanities thereof will dimme, yea cleane put out our delight in the Church.