A96109:338
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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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.
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Rule. 5 Shut up meditation with prayer*; Pray over your meditations. Prayer sanctifies every thing; without prayer they are but unhallowed meditations; Prayer fastens meditation upon the Soul; Prayer is a tying a knot at the end of meditation that it doth not slip; Pray that God will keep those holy meditations ⟨p. 269⟩in your mind for ever, that the savour of them may abide upon your hearts, 1 Chron. 29.18. O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel our Fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of thy people. So let us pray, that when we have been musing of heavenly things, and our hearts have waxed hot within us*, we may not cool into a sinful tepidness and lukewarmness, but that our affections may be as the lamp of the Sanctuary always burning.
Rule. 5 Shut up meditation with prayer*; Pray over your meditations. Prayer sanctifies every thing; without prayer they are but unhallowed meditations; Prayer fastens meditation upon the Soul; Prayer is a tying a knot at the end of meditation that it doth not slip; Pray that God will keep those holy meditations ⟨p. 269⟩in your mind for ever, that the savour of them may abide upon your hearts,