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

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, Isa. 25.6. The soul feasts with Christ here, Cant. 2.4. He brought me to the banqueting house, &c. In the Hebrew it is ad domum vini^*. He brought me to the house of wine. Word, Prayer, ⟨p. 393⟩Sacraments are to a Christian The house of wine. Here, often Christ turns the water of tears into of wine. How lovely is this house wine! The Ordinances are the lattice where Christ looks forth and shows his smiling face to his Saints. Christs parents found him in the Temple, Luke 2 46. The soul that loves Christ, desires conference with him in the Temple.

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 soule by his Spirit, and the soul converseth with him by prayer, and meditation. The soule 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 Beleevers heart in these chariots. Ordinances are convivium pinguium, the feast of fat things,