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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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The fourteenth subject of meditation, is, 1Meditate upon eternity; Some of the Ancients have compared it to an intellectual sphere, whose centre is every where, and circumference no where. Eternity to the godly is a day which hath no Sun-setting, and to the wicked, a night which hath no Sun-rising. Eternity is a gulf which may swallow up all our thoughts: Meditate on that Scripture, Matth. 25.46. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.
THe fourteenth subject of meditation, is, 1Meditate upon eternity; Some of the Ancients have compared it to an intellectual sphere, whose centre is every where, and circumference no where. Eternity to the godly is a day which hath no Sun-setting, and to the wicked, a night which hath no Sun-rising. Eternity is a gulf which may swallow up all our thoughts: Meditate on that Scripture, Matth. 25.46. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.
- 1Meditate on eternity
1. Meditate upon eternal punishment; the bitter cup the damned drink of shall never pass away from ⟨p. 144⟩them. The sinner and the furnace shall never be parted. Gods vial of wrath will be always dropping upon a wicked man. When you have reckoned up so many myriads and millions of years, nay, ages, as have passed the bounds of all Arithmetic, Eternity is not yet begun. This word EVER breaks the heart;