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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 15: Concerning the usefulness of meditation.
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.
4. Meditation fits for holy duties. The musician first put his instrument in tune and then he plays a lesson; meditation tunes the heart, and then it is fit for any holy service: as the sails to the Ship, so is meditation to duty, it carries on the soul more swiftly.
4. Meditation fits for holy duties. The musician first put his instrument in tune and then he plaies a lesson; meditation tunes the heart, and then it is fit for any holy service: as the sails to the Ship, so is meditation to duty, it carries on the soul more swiftly.
1. Meditation fits for Hearing, when the ground is softened then it is fit for the plough and the seed: when the heart is softened by meditation, now is a fit time for the seed of the word to be sown.
1. Meditation fits for Hearing, when the ground is softned then it is fit for the plough and the seed: when the heart is softned by meditation, now is a fit time for the seed of the word to be sown.
2. Meditation fits for Prayer, Prayer is Spiritualis pulsus, the spiritual pulse of the soul, by which it beats strongly after ⟨p. 240⟩God. There is no living without prayer; a man cannot live unless he takes breath, no more can the Soul unless it breathes out its desires to God. Prayer Ushers in mercy, and prayer sanctifies mercy;*; it makes mercy to be mercy: prayer hath power over God, vincit invincibilem