A96109:520
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. 1He who loves Christ will endeavour to preserve his memory. Friends that bear respect will preserve the memory of those persons they love, by keeping their pictures, letters, love-tokens; sometimes by preserving their monuments. Herein Artemisia Queen of Caria showed an act of singular love to her husband Mausolus, for he being dead, she caused his body to be reduced to ashes, and to be mingled in her drink every day, so making her body a living Tomb to hold her dead husband. Thus the soul that loves Christ will be often eating his body and drinking his blood in ⟨p. 396⟩the Sacrament, that he may remember Christs death till he come. They that live without Sacraments show plainly that they have no love to Christ, because thee do not desire to preserve his memory among them.
3. 1He who loves Christ will endeavour to preserve his memory. Friends that beare respect will preserve the memory of those persons they love, by keeping their pictures, letters, love-tokens; sometimes by preserving their monuments. Herein Artemisia Queen of Caria shewed an act of singular love to her husband Mausolus, for he being dead, she caused his body to be reduced to ashes, and to be mingled in her drink every day, so making her body a living Tomb to hold her dead husband. Thus the soule that loves Christ will be often eating his body and drinking his blood in ⟨p. 396⟩the Sacrament, that he may remember Christs death till he come. They that live without Sacraments shew plainly that they have no love to Christ, because thee do not desire to preserve his memory among them.
- 13. Fruit of love.