The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

Name: The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation
Author: Thomas Watson

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.

Thomas Watson d. 1686London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1657

[24], 403, [11] p. · 55k words · Wing W1142 · ESTC R210335

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CHRISTS LOVELINESS.CHRISTS LOVELINES.

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3. Branch, ¹If Jesus Christ be so lovely, it shows us the misery of a man out of Christ 1. That lives without Christ. 2. That dies without Christ.

3. Branch, ¹If Jesus Christ be so lovely, it shewes us the misery of a man out of Christ 1. That lives without Christ. 2. That dies without Christ.

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1. Behold his misery that lives without Christ. He is very deformed and unlovely; for all loveliness flows from Christ. A sinner in the state of nature is like an infant tumbling in its blood, Ezek. 16.6. Thou wert in thy blood. The Leper in the Law was but the sad emblem of a sinner. 1. ^*The Leper was to live alone, as being unworthy to come into the congregation of the holy. 2. The Leper did wear three marks ⟨p. 380⟩to be known by, his garments torn, his head bare, his mouth covered. 3. He was to cry unclean, unclean. This spiritual leprosy is upon every Christless sinner. Therefore a man in a state of unregeneracy is in Scripture compared to things most unlovely and unbeautiful. To a dog, Revel. 22.15. a swine^*, 2 Pet. 2.22

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