A96109:370
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.
Nor was this only when the fit was upon him, a thought of God and away, but it was a fixed temper of heart. I am still with thee*. The pulse of his soul was still beating after God. The ⟨p. 288⟩hypocrite may have a blush of godliness which is quickly over, Job. 27.10. but the constitution of Davids soul was heavenly, I am still with thee.
Nor was this onely when the fit was upon him, a thought of God and away, but it was a fixed temper of heart. I am still with thee*. The pulse of his soul was still beating after God. The ⟨p. 288⟩hypocrite may have a blush of godliness which is quickly over, Job. 27.10. but the constitution of Davids soul was heavenly, I am still with thee.
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Not but that David had some diversions of mind; 1(to have the eye always fixed upon God will be the state of the blessed in heaven) but, David was still with God. §11. Because the bias and bent of his spirit was towards God. His heart like the needle in the compass pointed heavenward.