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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.
THE SAINTS SPIRITUAL DELIGHT. › Chapter 7: A suasive to this holy delight in Religion.
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.
6. The Law of God is our spiritual physic-book, or book of receipts. Basil compares the Word of God to an Apothecaries shop which hath its [Greek or Hebrew]*; when there is any disease growing in the soul, here is a recipe to take; if we find our selves dead in duty, here is a recipe, Ps. 119 50. Thy Word hath quickened me; If our hearts be hard, here is a recipe; Is not my Word as fire, Jer. 23.29. This is able to melt the rock into tenderness. If we grow proud, here is a recipe, 1 Pet. 5.5. God resists the proud; if there be any fresh guilt contracted, here we have a sovereign medicine to take, John 17.17. Sanctify them through thy Truth. The Law of God is like a Physic-garden, where we may walk and gather any herb to expel the poison of sin.
6. The Law of God is our spiritual physick-book, or book of receits. Basil compares the Word of God to an Apothecaries shop which hath its 〈non-Latin alphabet〉*; when there is any disease growing in the soul, here is a recipe to take; if we find our selvs dead in duty, here is a recipe, Ps. 119 50. Thy Word hath quickned me; If our hearts be hard, here is a recipe; Is not my Word as fire, Jer. 23.29. This is able to melt the rock into tendernesse. If we grow proud, here is a recipe, 1 Pet. 5.5. God resists the proud; if there be any fresh guilt contracted, here we have a sovereign medicine to take, John 17.17. Sanctifie them through thy Truth. The Law of God is like a Physick-garden, where we may walk and gather any herb to expel the poisor of sin.