A96109:363
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.
6. If sin through the immodesty of tentation prevail against a child of God, there is a psalm consolatory, Psalm. 65.3. Iniquities prevail against me, as for our transgressions thou shalt purge them away. In the Hebrew *it is thou shalt hide them. It alludes to the mercy-seat which was covered with the wings of the ⟨p. 284⟩Cherubims; so are the sins of the godly (when repented off) covered with the wings of mercy, and favour.
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7. In case of prayer and no speedy return. Psalm. 69.3. I am weary of my crying, my eyes fail while I wait for my God. But in the same Psalm he draws the breast of comfort, vers. 33. the Lord heareth the poor and despiseth not his prisoners. Would we have fruit before it is ripe? When the mercy is ripe, we shall have it; and besides, there is nothing lost by waiting; we send out the golden fleet of prayer to heaven, the longer this fleet stays out, the greater return it will bring with it. David found it so; therefore he pulls off his sackcloth, and puts on the garments of praise, Laudabo in Cantico, I will praise the name of God with a Song, vers. 30.
7. In case of prayer and no speedy return. Psalm. 69.3. I am weary of my crying, my eyes fail while I wait for my God. But in the same Psalm he draws the breast of comfort, vers. 33. the Lord heareth the poor and depiseth not his prisoners. Would we have fruit before it is ripe? When the mercy is ripe, we shall have it; and besides, there is nothing lost by waiting; we send out the golden fleet of prayer to heaven, the longer this fleet staies out, the greater return it will bring with it. David found it so; therefore he pulls off his sackcloth, and puts on the garments of praise, Laudabo in Cantico, I will praise the name of God with a Song, vers. 30.