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The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation
The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation. / By Thomas Watson, minister of Stephens Walbrook in the city of London. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1657
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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.
CHAP. II. Showing the nature of Meditation.
CHAP. II. Shewing the nature of Meditation.
IF it be enquired what meditation is, I answer, 1meditation is the souls retiring of it self, that by a serious and solemn thinking upon God, the heart may be raised up to heavenly affections. This description hath three branches.
IF it be enquired what meditation is, I answer, 1meditation is the souls retiring of it selfe, that by a serious and solemne thinking upon God, the heart may be raised up to heavenly affections. This description hath three branches.
- 1What meditation is.
1. Meditation is the souls retiring of it self; a Christian, when he goes to meditate, must lock up himself from the world. The world spoils meditation; Christ went apart into the Mount to pray, Mat. 14.23. So, go apart when you are to meditate. Isaac went out to meditate in the field, Gen. 24.63. he sequestered and retired himself that he might ⟨p. 62⟩take a walk with God by meditation. Zacheus had a mind to see Christ, and he got out of the crowd, He ran before, and climbed up into a sycamore-tree to see him,