A96109:129
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
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.
CHAP. V. Showing how Meditation differs from Study.
CHAP. V. Shewing how Meditation differs from Study.
The Students life looks like meditation, but doth vary from it. Meditation and study differ three ways.
THe Students life looks like meditation, but doth vary from it. Meditation and study differ three ways.
1. They differ in their nature. Study is a work of the brain, meditation of the heart; study sets the invention on work, meditation sets the affection on work.
1. They differ in their nature. Study is a work of the braine, meditation of the heart; study sets the invention on work, meditation sets the affection on work.
2. They differ in their design. The design of study is notion, the design of mediation is piety: The design of study is the finding out of a truth; the design of meditation is the spiritual improvement of a truth; the one searcheth for the vein of gold, the other digs out the gold.