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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 17: Containing divine motives to meditation.
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Motive. 4 The fruitlessness of all other ⟨p. 255⟩meditations; one man lays out his thoughts about laying up; his meditations are how to raise himself in the world, and when he hath arrived at an estate often God blows upon it*. His care is for his child, and perhaps God takes it away, or if it lives it proves a cross. Another meditates how to satisfy his ambition, Honour me before the people, 1 Sam. 15.30. alas, what is honour but a meteor in the air; a torch lighted by the breath of people *with the least puff blown out; how many live to see their names buried before them*? When this Sun is in the meridian, it doth soon set in a cloud.
Motive. 4 The fruitlessness of all other ⟨p. 255⟩meditations; one man laies out his thoughts about laying up; his meditations are how to raise himself in the world, and when he hath arrived at an estate often God blows upon it*. His care is for his child, and perhaps God takes it away, or if it lives it proves a cross. Another meditates how to satisfy his ambition, Honour me before the people, 1 Sam. 15.30. alas, what is honour but a meteor in the aire; a torch lighted by the breath of people *with the least puff blown out; how many live to see their names buried before them*? When this Sun is in the meridian, it doth soon set in a cloud.
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