The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

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.

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 sinne, 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 alwayes about thee, and when sinne tempts, pull out this table-book, and read in it, and you shall see sinne will vanish. We should look upon sin in two glasses, the glasse of Christs blood, and the glasse of death.

3. The meditation of death would ⟨p. 124⟩be a bridle for intemperancy; shall I pamper that body which must lie down in the house of rottenness? Our Saviour at a feast breaks forth into mention of his burial, ¹Matth. 26.12. feeding upon the thoughts of death would be an excellent preservative against a surfeit.

3. The meditation of death would ⟨p. 124⟩be a bridle for intemperancy; shall I pamper that body which must lie down in the house of rottennesse? Our Saviour at a feast breaks forth into mention of his burial,