A96109:516
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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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. Love Christ plusquam te, more than thy Life, Revel. 12.11. They loved not their lives to the death. They carried their sufferings as ensigns of their glory. They had pangs of love stronger than the pangs of death. Did the Curtii die for the Romans, the Codri for the Athenians, and shall not we be willing to lay down our lives for Christ who is so infinitely lovely?
3. Love Christ plusquam te, more than thy Life, Revel. 12.11. They loved not their lives to the death. They carried their sufferings as ensignes of their glory. They had pangs of love stronger than the pangs of death. Did the Curtii die for the Romans, the Codri for the Athenians, and shall not we be willing to lay downe our lives for Christ who is so infinitly lovely?
2. Show your love to this lovely Saviour by the Effects of love.
2. Shew your love to this lovely Saviour by the Effects of love.
1. 1The first of love is desire ⟨p. 392⟩of converse*. Love is a transporting of the affections; Lovers desire to be often talking and conversing together before the Marriage day. Christ converseth with the soul by his Spirit, and the soul converseth with him by prayer, and meditation. The soul that loves Christ, desires to be much in his presence. He loves the Ordinances, he thinks it is good lying in the way where Christ passeth by. Ordinances are vehicula salutis. The chariots of salvation. Christ rides into the Believers heart in these chariots. Ordinances are convivium pinguium, the feast of fat things,