A96109:394
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.
1. It reproves them that are never with God; 1they live without God in the world, Ephes. 2.12. 'Tis made the characteristical note of a wicked man, God is not in all his thoughts, Psalm 10.4. He never thinks of God unless with horror and amazement, as the Prisoner thinks of the Judge and the Assizes; and here two sorts of sinners are indicted.
1. It reproves them that are never with God; 1they live without God in the world, Ephes. 2.12. 'Tis made the characteristical note of a wicked man, God is not in all his thoughts, Psalm 10.4. He never thinks of God unlesse vvith horrour and amazement, as the Prisoner thinkes of the Judge and the Assizes; and here two sorts of sinners are indicted.
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1. Such as are still with their sins. A child of God, though sin be with him, yet he is not with sin, his will is against sin; ⟨p. 307⟩Rom. 7.15. 1That which I do I allow not; he would fain shake this viper into the fire; he forsakes sin, but sin will not forsake him, so that though sin be with him; yet he is not with sin; but a wicked man, and sin are together, as two Lovers mutually solacing and embracing; a wicked man is [Greek or Hebrew], a Worker of iniquity,