A96109:355
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.
A Christian on Earth still in Heaven.
PSAL. 139.18. When I awake I am still with thee.
THE Scripture is a Spiritual Paradise, the book of Psalms is placed as the Tree of Life in the midst of this Paradise; the Psalms are not only for Delight, but usefulness; they are like the Pomegranate Tree which is not only for savour, but fruit; or like those Trees ⟨p. 280⟩of *the Sanctuary, Ezek. 47.12. both for food and medicine. The Psalms are enriched with variety, and suited to every Christians estate and condition. They are a Spiritual Panoply and Store-house, if he find his heart dead, here he may fetch fire, if he be weak in grace, here he may fetch armour; if he be ready to faint, here are cordials lying by. There is no Condition you can name, but there is a Psalm suited to that condition.
THE Scripture is a Spiritual Paradise, the book of Psalms is placed as the Tree of Life in the midst of this Paradise; the Psalms are not onely for Delight, but usefulness; they are like the Pomegranate Tree which is not onely for savour, but fruit; or like those Trees ⟨p. 280⟩of *the Sanctuary,