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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.
Treatise › Chapter 9: A Reproof to such as do not meditate in Gods Law.
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.
Use 2 IT serves to reprove those who Meditate indeed, but not in the Law of God: 1They turn all their Meditations the wrong way; like a man that lets forth the water of his Mill which should grind his corn into the highway, where it doth no good: So there are many who let out ⟨p. 202⟩their Meditations upon other fruitless things, which are no ways beneficial to their souls.
Ʋse 2 IT serves to reprove those who Meditate indeed, but not in the Law of God: 1They turn all their Meditations the wrong way; like a man that lets forth the water of his Mill which should grind his corn into the highway, whereit doth no good: So there are many who let out ⟨p. 202⟩their Meditations upon other fruitless things, which are no waies beneficial to their souls.
- 1Reproof
1. The Farmer Meditates on his acres of land not upon his soul: his Meditation is how he may improve a barren piece of ground, not how he may improve a barren mind: he will not let his ground lie fallow, but he lets his heart lye fallow: There is no spiritual culture, not one seed of grace sown there.
1. The Farmer Meditates on his acres of land not upon his soul: his Meditation is how he may improve a barren piece of ground, not how he may improve a barren minde: he will not let his ground lie fallow, but he lets his heart lye fallow: There is no spiritual culture, not one seed of grace sown there.