A96109:347
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.
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.
1. It is only the practical part of Religion will make a man blessed. Meditation is a beautiful flower, but as Rachel said to her husband, Give me children or I dye, Gen. 30. 1. So if Meditation be barren, and doth not bring forth the child of obedience, it will dye and come to nothing.
1. It is onely the practical part of Religion will make a man blessed. Meditation is a beautiful flower, but as Rachel said to her husband, Give me children or I dye, Gen. 30. 1. So if Meditation be barren, and doth not bring forth the childe of obedience, it will dye and come to nothing.
2. If when you have meditated in Gods law, you do not obey his Law, you will come ⟨p. 274⟩short of them who have come short of heaven. 'Tis said of Herod [Greek or Hebrew], Mark 6.20. He did many things; he was in many things a practicer of Johns Ministry: They who meditate in Gods Law, and observe not to do, are not so good as Herod, nay, they are no better then the Devil, he knows much, but still he is a Devil.
2. If when you have meditated in Gods law, you do not obey his Law, you will come ⟨p. 274⟩short of them who have come short of heaven. 'Tis said of Herod 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Mark 6.20. He did many things; he was in many things a practicer of Johns Ministery: They who meditate in Gods Law, and observe not to do, are not so good as Herod, nay, they are no better then the Devil, he knows much, but still he is a Devil.