A96109:409
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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2. If you would be still with God, watch over your hearts every day. Lock up your hearts with God every morning, and give him the key. The heart will be stealing out to vanity*: Lord (saith Bernard) there's nothing more flitting then my heart. Keep watch and ward there; especially (Christians) look to your hearts after an Ordinance; when you have been with God in duty; now expect a temptation. Physicians say, The body must be more carefully looked to when it comes out of an hot Bath; for the pores being open it is more in danger of catching cold: ⟨p. 322⟩After your spiritual Bathing in an Ordinance, when you have been at a Sermon or Sacrament, now take heed that you do not catch cold.
2. If you would be still with God, watch over your hearts every day. Lock up your hearts with God every morning, and give him the key. The heart will be stealing out to vanity*: Lord (saith Bernard) theres nothing more flitting then my heart. Keep watch and ward there; especially (Christians) look to your hearts after an Ordinance; when you have been with God in duty; now expect a temptation. Physitians say, The body must be more carefully looked to when it comes out of an hot Bath; for the pores being open it is more in danger of catching cold: ⟨p. 322⟩After your spiritual Bathing in an Ordinance, when you have been at a Sermon or Sacrament, now take heed that you do not catch cold.
- *Nihil corde meo fugacius. Bern.
3. Beware of remissness in duty: *