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A Divine Cordial
A divine cordial, or, The transcendent privilege of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1663
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.
There are four Signs, whereby Christians may know their love is in a Consumption.
1. When they have lost their taste. He that is in a deep Consumption, hath no taste; he finds not that savoury relish in his meat, as ⟨p. 135⟩formerly: So when Christians have lost their taste, they find no sweetness in a promise, it is a sign of a spiritual Consumption, 1 Pet. 2.3. If so be ye have tasted the Lord is gracious. Time was, when they found comfort in drawing nigh to God; His Word was as the dropping honey, very delicious to the palate of their soul: but now it is otherwise, they can taste no more sweetness in spiritual things, than in the white of an Egg, Job 6.6. This is a sign they are in a Consumption; to lose the taste, argues the loss of the first love.
1. When they have lost their tast. He that is in a deep Consumption, hath no tast; he finds not that savoury rellish in his meat, as ⟨p. 135⟩formerly: So when Christians have lost their tast, they find no sweetness in a promise, it is a sign of a spiritual Consumption, 1 Pet. 2.3. If so be ye have tasted the Lord is gracious. Time was, when they found comfort in drawing nigh to God; His Word was as the dropping honey, very delicious to the pallat of their soul: but now it is otherwise, they can tast no more sweetness in spiritual things, than in the white of an Egg, Job 6.6. This is a sign they are in a Consumption; to lose the tast, argues the loss of the first love.