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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 17: Containing divine motives to meditation.
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Motive. 5 Holy meditation is not lost. God hath a pen to write down all our good thoughts. Mal. 3.5. a book of remembrance was written for them that thought upon his name. As God hath all our members, so all our meditations written in his book. God pens our closet devotion.
Motive. 6 The sixth motive is in the text viz. the blessedness affixed to the meditating Christian, Blessed is the man, &c. verse 1. say ⟨p. 258⟩not it is hard to meditate. What think you of blessedness? 1Lycurgus could draw the Lacedaemonians to any thing by rewards; If men can meditate with delight on that which will make them cursed, shall not we meditate on that which will make us blessed nay in the hebrew tis in the plural [Greek or Hebrew] blessednesses; we shall have one blessedness upon another.
Motive. 6 The sixth motive is in the text viz. the blessednesse affixed to the meditating Christian, Blessed is the man, &c. verse 1. say ⟨p. 258⟩not it is hard to meditate. What think you of blessednes? 1Lycurgus could draw the Lacedemonians to any thing by rewards; If men can meditate with delight on that which will make them cursed, shal not we meditate on that which will make us blessed nay in the hebrew tis in the plural 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 blessednesses; we shall have one blessedness upon another.