A96109:89
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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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.
9. The Law of God is Manna cujuslibet saporis*; an heavenly Manna that suits it self to every Christians palate. What doth the soul desire? is it quickening, strengthening? he may find all in this Manna. But I refer the Reader to the learned Origen, who hath written fully to this*.
9. The Law of God is Manna cujuslibet saporis*; an heavenly Manna that suits it self to every Christians pallat. What doth the soul desire? is it quickning, strengthning? he may finde all in this Manna. But I refer the Reader to the learned Origen, who hath written fully to this*.
- *[Greek or Hebrew]. Theophil. in Mat.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Theophil. in Mat.
- *Si tu verbum Dei tota fide, & devotione suceperis fiet tibi ipsum verbum quaecunque desideras; si tribularis consolatur te dicens; cor contritum, & humiliatum Deus non despicies; si laetaris, pro spe futura cumulat tibi gaudium, dicent, laetamini in domino, & exultate justi. Si iracundus es, mitigat te, dicens desine ab ira, & derelinque furorem. Si in doloribus es, sanat te, dicens, dominus sanat omnes languores tuos; si in paupertate, erigit te, dicens, dominus allevat de terra inopem. Sic ergo Manna Dei reddit in ore tuo saporem quemcunque volueris, &c. Origen hom, 7. in Exod. And this is the first weighty consideration to make us delight in the Law of the Lord, there is that in it may render it delightful. I will shut up this with that divine saying of Austin. Tanta est Christianarum litcrarum profunditas, ut in cis quotidie proficerem si cas solas ab incunte pueritià usque ad decrepitam senectutem maximo otio summo studio, meliore ingenio conarcr addiscere. Aug. Epist. 3. ad volusianum.