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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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2. Meditate of the company in hell, the devil and his Angels, Matth. 25.41. Job complains he was a companion to owls, chap. 30.29. What will it be to be a companion to devils? Consider, 1. Their ghastly deformity, they make hell look blacker. 2. Their deadly antipathy; they are fired with rage against man-kind; first they become tempters, then tormentors.
2. Meditate of the company in hell, the devil and his Angels, Matth. 25.41. Job complaines he was a companion to owles, chap. 30.29. What will it be to be a companion to devils? Consider, 1. Their gastly deformity, they make hell look blacker. 2. Their deadly antipathy; they are fired with rage against man-kind; first they become tempters, then tormentors.
Meditate much on hell. Let us go into hell by contemplation, that we may not go into hell by condemnation. How restless is the condition of the damned; The ancients feign of Endymion, that he got leave of Jupiter always to sleep*. What would the damned in hell give for such a Licence? in their pains is neither intermission, nor mitigation.
Meditate much on hell. Let us go into hell by contemplation, that we may not go into hell by condemnation. How restlesse is the condition of the damned; The ancients faine of Endymion, that he got leave of Jupiter always to sleep*. What would the damned in hell give for such a Licence? in their paines is neither intermission, nor mitigation.
- *Impetrasse a Jove ut perpetuo dormiret. Natal. Come.