A96109:372
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.
2. Because he was more with God then he was any where else1. as we use to say a man lives at his house not but that urgency of occasions draw him abroad sometimes, but he is said to live there because he is most resident there.
- 1Subjectum a majori part.Subjectum a majori parte.
The words hold forth this proposition.
Doct. That it is the sweet temper of a Gracious heart to be still with God. I am still with Thee. David awaked in heaven. He was ever above. We read in the old Law that those creatures which did creep upon all four were to be had in abomination, but they which had wings to fly, and legs to leap withal were accounted clean. Lev. 11.20. Those are among the unclean, and are abominable to God, whose souls creep upon the earth, but they who have the legs and wings of grace to mount up with, who are still with God, these are pure and precious in Gods eyes. For the illustrating this point there are three things to be explained, and amplified.
Doct. That it is the sweet temper of a Gracious heart to be still with God. I am still with Thee. David awaked in heaven. He was ever above. We read in the old Law that those creatures which did creep upon all four were to be had in abomination, but they which had wings to flie, and leggs to leap withall were accounted clean.