A96109:398
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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Christians must stave off the world, that it gets not into ⟨p. 309⟩their heart, Psal. 62.10. for as the water is useful to the ship and helps it to sail the better to the haven, but let the water get into the ship, if it be not pumped out at the leak, it drowns the ship: so riches are useful and convenient for our passage. We sail more comfortably with them through the troubles of this world, but if the water get into the ship, if the love of riches get into the heart, then we are drowned with them, 1 Tim. 6.9.
Christians must stave off the world, that it gets not into ⟨p. 309⟩their heart, Psal. 62.10. for as the water is useful to the ship and helps it to sail the better to the haven, but let the water get into the ship, if it be not pumpt out at the leak, it drowns the ship: so riches are useful and convenient for our passage. We sail more comfortably with them throgh the troubles of this world, but if the water get into the ship, if the love of riches get into the heart, then we are drowned with them, 1 Tim. 6.9.
2. It reproves them that are seldom with God. 1They are sometimes with God but not still with God. The shell fish (as naturalists observe) hath so little life in it, & moves so slow that it is hard to determine whether it lives a vegetative or a sensitive life: so it may be ⟨p. 310⟩