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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. The Jewish Rabbins say, Manna suited it self to every ones palate; whatever he desired, that he found in Manna; so Jesus Christ ⟨p. 340⟩suits himself to every Christians condition; he is full of quickening, strengthening, comforting virtue*, What fools are they that prefer the earthly mammon before this heavenly Manna!
3. The Jewish Rabbins say, Manna suited it self to every ones pallat; whatever he desired, that he found in Manna; so Jesus Christ ⟨p. 340⟩suits himself to every Christians condition; he is full of quickning, strengthning, comforting vertue*, What fools are they that preferre the earthly mammon before this heavenly Manna!
- *Amaritu dines mundi dulces reddit. Austin.
Type. 3 3. By the mercy-seat which was a sacred emblem or hieroglyphic representing the mercy of God to his people; there the Lord did give forth his Oracles and answers of peace to his people, Exod. 25.22. There will I meet thee, and I will commune with thee, &c. This mercy-seat was a type of Christ*; in, and thorough whom God is appeased towards us. Therefore he is called [Greek or Hebrew], a Propitiation, Rom. 3.25. O how lovely is this mercy-seat! We could not speak to God in prayer, nor would he commune with us, were it not for this blessed propitiatory. The Hebrew word for mercy-seat