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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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Treatise › Chapter 15: Concerning the usefulness of meditation.
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3. Meditation fits for Humiliation. When David had been contemplating the Works of Creation, their splendour, harmony, motion, influence, he let the plumes of pride fall, and begins to have Self-abasing thoughts, Psalm 8.3, 4. When I ⟨p. 243⟩consider the Heavens, the Work of thy fingers, the moon and Stars which thou hast ordained, What is man that thou art mindful of him?
3. Meditation fits for Humiliation. When David had been contemplating the Works of Creation, their splendor, harmony, motion, influence, he let the plumes of pride fall, and begins to have Self-abasing thoughts, Psalm 8.3, 4. When I ⟨p. 243⟩consider the Heavens, the Work of thy fingers, the moon and Starres which thou hast ordained, What is man that thou art mindfull of him?
5. Meditation is a strong antidote against sin; most sin is committed for want of meditation: men sin through incogitancy, and passion*; would they be so brutishly sensual as they are, if they did seriously meditate what sin is? Would they take this viper in their hand, if they did but consider before of the sting? Sin puts a worm in to conscience, a sting into death, a fire into hell; did men meditate of this, that after all their dainty dishes, death will bring in the Reckoning, and they must pay the Reckoning in Hell, they would say as David in another sense, Let me not eat of their dainties, Psalm 141.4. ⟨p. 244⟩