A96109:26
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. I. Showing that negative goodness is but a broken title to heaven.
CHAP. I. Shewing that negative goodnesse is but a broken title to heaven.
AS the Book of the Canticles is called the song of songs by an Hebraism, it being the most excellent; so this Psalm may not unfitly be entitled, ⟨p. 2⟩the Psalm of Psalms, for it contains in it the very pith and quintessence of Christianity. What Hierom saith of St. Pauls Epistles*, the same may I of this Psalm; 'tis short for the composure, but full of length and strength for the matter*. This Psalm carries blessedness in the frontispiece; it begins where we all hope to end: It may well be called a Christians guide, for it discovers the quicksands where the wicked sink down in perdition, verse 1. and the firm ground on which the Saints tread to glory, ver. 2. The text is an epitome, and breviary of Religion. But his delight is in the Law of the Lord, and in his Law doth he meditate day and night. Every word hath its Emphasis; I begin with the first word But*.
AS the Book of the Canticles is called the song of songs by an Hebraisme, it being the most excellent; so this Psalme may not unfitly be entituled, ⟨p. 2⟩