A96109:391
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.
2. Sweetness; God is love, 1 John 4.19. Every one desires to be with them from whom they receive most love; The Lord doth often make himself known to the soul in an ordinance, as he did to the disciples in breaking of bread, Luke 24.35. He manifests himself in the comforts of his Spirit, 1which are so sweet and ravishing, that they pass all understanding; and do you wonder the soul is so strongly carried out after God? Truly if it be still with God, to speak with reverence, 'Tis long of God. He gives those Jewels and Bracelets, those love-tokens that the soul cannot but desire to be still with God.
2. Sweetness; God is love, 1 John 4.19. Every one desires to be with them from whom they receive most love; The Lord doth often make himself known to the soul in an ordinance, as he did to the disciples in breaking of bread, Luke 24.35. He manifests himself in the comforts of his Spirit, 1which are so sweet and ravishing, that they passe all understanding; and do you wonder the soul is so strongly carried out after God? Truly if it be still with God, to speak with reverence, 'Tis long of God. He gives those Jewels and Bracelets, those love-tokens that the soul cannot but desire to be still with God.
Use 1 It shows us an art how to be in heaven before our time, namely by being still with God. A Good Christian begins his heaven here, Grace translates him