A96109:455
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.
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*, signifies a Covering, to show that in Christ the ⟨p. 341⟩sins of believers are covered.
Type. 3 3. By the mercy-seat which was a sacred embleme or hyeroglyphick 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 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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*, signifies a Covering, to shew that in Christ the ⟨p. 341⟩