A96109:406
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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4. To be still with God is the most durable life, nunquam deficit semper resicit: 1the life of sense will fail; we must shortly bid farewell to all our outward Comforts, these blossoms will drop off: We read of a Sea ⟨p. 319⟩of glass mingled with fire, Rev. 12.2. Bullinger, and other learned Expositors understand by that Sea of glass, the World. Indeed it is a fit emblem of it; the World is a Sea, and it is seldom calm; and 'tis a Sea of glass, slippery; and this glass is mingled with fire, to show, it is of a perishable and consuming nature. Riches take wings, and relations take wings: but you that by the wings of grace are still soaring aloft, This life shall never have an end; it is the beginning of an eternal life; happiness is but the cream of holiness: you that are still with God shall be ever with the Lord, 1 Thes. 4.17. You shall see God in all his embroidered Robes of majesty*. 1 Joh. 3. We shall see ⟨p. 302⟩him as he is; and this sight vvill be ravishing, and full of glory Oh then is not this the best kind of life? He who when he awakes is still with God; when he goes to sleep at death, shall be ever with the Lord.
4. To be still with God is the most durable life, nunquam deficit semper resicit: 1the life of sense will fail; we must shortly bid farewell to all our outward Comforts, these blossoms will drop off: We read of a Sea ⟨p. 319⟩of glass mingled with fire, Rev. 12.2