A96109:403
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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The second argument to persuade us to be still with God is, consider what a rare, and excellent life this is which will appear ⟨p. 315⟩in four particulars. 1. To be still with God is the most noble life*. Tis as much above the life of reason as reason is above the life of a plant, the true Christian is like a star in the highest orb, he looks no lower then a crown; Grace puts hie thoughts, Princely affections a kind of heavenly ambition into the soul. Grace raiseth a Christian above himself, it makes him as Caleb a man of another Spirit; he lives in the altitudes, his thoughts are lodged among Angels, and the Spirits of just men made perfect: and is not not this the most noble life to be still with God? The Academics compare the soul of man to a Fowl, mounting up with her wings in the air: Thus with the wings of grace, the soul flies aloft, and takes a prospect of heaven.
The second argument to perswade us to be still with God is, consider what a rare, and excellent life this is which will appear ⟨p. 315⟩in four particulars. 1. To be still with God is the most noble life*. Tis as much above the life of reason as reason is above the life of a plant, the true Christian is like a star in the highest orb, he looks no lower then a crown; Grace puts hie thoughts, Princely affections a kind of heavenly ambition into the soul. Grace raiseth a Christian above himself, it makes him as Caleb a man of another Spirit; he lives in the altitudes, his thoughts are lodged among Angels, and the Spirits of just men made perfect: and is not not this the most noble life to be still with God? The Academicks compare the soul of man to a Fowl, mounting up with her wings in the ayr: Thus with the wings of grace, the soul flies aloft, and takes a prospect of heaven.
- *[Greek or Hebrew]. On•ylostom ad Rom. Homil. 13.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Onylostom ad Rom. Homil. 13.