The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

2 Such as are still with the world; Tis counted a piece of a miracle to find a diamond in a vein of gold: and tis as great a miracle to find Christ (that precious stone.) in an earthly heart. The world is mens Diana. they mind earthly things, Phil. 3.19. ^*like the Ostrich though she hath wings yet by reason of the weightiness of her body cannot fly high, most men are so weighed ⟨p. 308⟩down with thick clay^*, that they cannot soar aloft they are like Saul, hid among the stuff^*, like Sisera who had his head nailed to the earth^*, so their hearts are nailed to the earth. Absaloms beauty stole away the hearts of Israel from their king, 2 Sa. 15.6. the worlds bewitching beauty steals away men hearts from God^*. Tis sad when the husband sends his wife a jewel & she so falls in love with the jewel that she forgets her husband: an estate should be a lodestone to draw men nearer to God, but it is often a millstone to sink them to hell.

2 Such as are stil with the world; Tis counted a piece of a miracle to find a diamond in a vein of gold: and tis as great a miracle to find Christ (that precious stone.) in an earthly heart. The world is mens Diana. they minde earthly things, Phil. 3.19. ^*like the Ostrich though she hath wings yet by reason of the weightiness of her body cannot fly high, most men are so weighed ⟨p. 308⟩down with thick clay