A96109:515
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.
2. Love Christ plusquam tua, more than thy Estate. Gold is but shining dust, though it may be lovely, yet it is not altogether lovely. 1. Gold is worse than thy self, it is of an earthly extract. If thou lovest any thing, love something which is better than thy self; and that only is Christ, who is altogether lovely. 2. Riches avail not in the day of wrath, Proverbs 11.4. Riches are no life guard to defend us from divine fury; but how lovely is Christ who can screen off the fire of Gods wrath from thee; Oh then love him more than these perishable things*. Christs gleanings are better than the ⟨p. 391⟩worlds Vintage. Be not like Noah's Raven, which when it had found a carrion to feed on, cared not for returning home to the Ark. He that loseth all for Christ, shall find all in *Christ.
2. Love Christ plusquam tua, more than thy Estate. Gold is but shining dust, though it may be lovely, yet it is not altogether lovely. 1. Gold is worse than thy selfe, it is of an earthly extract. If thou lovest any thing, love something which is better than thy selfe; and that onely is Christ, who is altogether lovely. 2. Riches availe not in the day of wrath, Proverbs 11.4. Riches are no life guard to defend us from divine fury; but how lovely is Christ who can screene off the fire of Gods wrath from thee; Oh then love him more than these perishable things*. Christs gleanings are better than the ⟨p. 391⟩worlds Vintage. Be not like Noahs Raven, which when it had found a carrion to feed on, cared not for returning home to the Ark. He that loseth all for Christ, shall finde all in *Christ.