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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
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.
1. The meditation of death would pull down the plumes of pride; 1thou art but pulvis animatus; shall ⟨p. 123⟩dust and ashes be proud? Thou hast a grassy body, Is. 40.6. 2and shalt shortly be mowen down; I have said ye are gods, Ps. 82 but lest they should grow proud, he adds a corrective, ye shall die like men, v. 7. ye are dying gods.
1. The meditation of death would pull down the plumes of pride; 1thou art but pulvis animatus; shall ⟨p. 123⟩dust and ashes be proud? Thou hast a grassy body, Is. 40.6. 2and shalt shortly be mowen down; I have said ye are gods, Ps. 82 but lest they should grow proud, he adds a corrective, ye shal die like men, v. 7. ye are dying gods.
- 1Cum sis humi limus cur non humilimus?
- 2Agnoscat homose esse mortalem, & franget elationem. Aug.
2. The meditation of death would be a means to give a deaths wound to sinne, nihil sic revocat a peccato, &c. No stronger antidote against sin, saith Austin, than the frequent meditation of death; am I now sinning, and to morrow may be dying? What if death should take me doing the devils work, would it not send me to him to receive double pay? carry the thoughts of death as a table-book always about thee, and when sin tempts, pull out this table-book, and read in it, and you shall see sin will vanish. We should look upon sin in two glasses, the glass of Christs blood, and the glass of death.