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A96109	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.	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1657 (1657)	Wing W1142; Thomason E1610_4; ESTC R210335	123,303	409

over and a perpetual eclipse and mid-night in the soul to be cast out of Gods presence in whose presence is fulnesse of joy this doth accent and imbitter the condition of the damned 't is like mingling gall with wormwood 2. Meditate upon the paine of sence 2. Poena sensus the Photinians hold there is no hell but they speak in a dream Psalme 9.17 The wicked shall be turned into hell And here meditate of two things 1. The place of hell 2. The company 1. Meditate of the place of hell 'T is call'd a place of torment Luke 16.28 There are two things especially in hell to torment 1. 1. Ignis Urens Fire Revel 20.15 'T is called a lake of burning fire Austin Peter Lombard Gregory the Great say this fire of hell is a material fire though they say it is infinitely hotter than any culinary fire that is but painted fire to this I wish none of us may know what kinde of fire it is but I rather think the fire of hell is partly material and partly spiritual the material fire is to work upon the body the spiritual to torture the soul This is the wrath of God which is both fire and bellows who knows the power of thy anger Psalme 90.11 But it may be objected if there be any material fire in hell it will consume the bodies there I answer it shall burn without consuming * In rebus sacris mirari non rimari sapientis est Gerhard de coena dom as Moses bush did Ex. 3.2 The power of God silenceth all disputes If God by his infinite power could make the fire of the three children not to consume cannot he make the fire of hell burne and not consume Austin in his book de civitate Dei Aug. lib. 21 tells us of a strange salt in Sicily which if it be put in the fire swims That God which can make salt contrary to its nature swim in the fire can make the bodies of the damn'd not consume in the fire 2. The worm Mark 9.44 2. Vermis Rodens Where the worme never dies Homer in his Odisses faines that Titius his liver was gnawn by two vultures in hell This never-dying worme Christ speaks of is the gnawing of a guilty conscience Comment 1 Cor. 11 Melancthon calls it Erynnis conscientiae * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an hellish fury Siculi non invenere tyranni tormentum majus they that will not hear conscience preaching shall feel conscience gnawing * Ge adag Comment and so great is the extremity of these two the fire which burnes and the worme which bites that there will follow gnashing of teeth * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat 8.12 the damn'd will gnash their teeth for horrour and anguish That must needs be sad chear as Latimer saith where weeping is serv'd in for the first course and gnashing of teeth for the second * Latimer Serm. ad cler Ejus adesse intollerabile ejus abesse im possibile Aug. to endure this will be intollerable to avoid it will be impossible 2. Meditate of the company in hell the devil and his Angels Matth. 25.41 Job complaines he was a companion to owles chap. 30.29 What will it be to be a companion to devils Consider 1. Their gastly deformity they make hell look blacker 2. Their deadly antipathy they are fired with rage against man-kind first they become tempters then tormentors Meditate much on hell Let us go into hell by contemplation that we may not go into hell by condemnation How restlesse is the condition of the damned The ancients faine of Endymion that he got leave of Jupiter always to sleep * Impetrasse a Jove ut perpetuo dormiret Natal Com. What would the damned in hell give for such a Licence in their paines is neither intermission nor mitigation The serious meditation of hell would make us 1. Feare sinne as hell Sinne is hells fuel sinne like Sampsons foxes * Judges 15.5 carries devouring fire in the taile of it 2. The meditation of hell would cause rejoycing in a childe of God The Saints feare of hell is like the two Maries feare Matth. 28.8 They depared from the Sepulchre with fear and great joy A beleever may fear to think of the place of torment but rejoyce to think he shall not come into this place When a man stands upon a high rock he trembles to look down into the sea yet he rejoyceth that he is not there strugling with the waves A child of God when he thinks of hell he rejoyceth with trembling A Prison is not made for the Kings sons to be put in A great Naturalist observes that nothing will so soon quench fire as salt and blood sure I am the salt brinish tears of repentance and the blood of Christ will quench the fire of hell to a beleever Christ himself hath felt the paines of hell for you The Lamb of God being roasted in the fire of Gods wrath by this burnt-offering the Lord is now appeas'd towards his people Oh how may the godly rejoyce 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There 's no condemnation to them that are in Christ Rom. 8.1 When the Son of God was in the furnace Dan. 3.25 the fire did the three children no hurt so Christ being for a time in the fiery furnace of Gods wrath that fire can do a beleever no hurt The Saints have the garment of Christs righteousnesse upon them and the fire of hell can never singe this garment SECT 13. THe thirteenth subject of meditation is Meditate on heaven Meditate on heaven From the Mount of meditation as from Mount Nebo we may take a view and prospect of the Land of promise Christ hath taken possession of heaven in the name of all beleevers Heb. 6.20 Whither the forerunner is for us entred even Jesus Heaven must needs be a glorious City which hath God both for its builder and inhabitant Heaven is the extract quintessence of all blessednesse There the Saints shall have their wish Austin wished that he might have seene three things before he died Rome in its Glory Paul in the Pulpit and Christ in the Flesh But the Saints shall see a better sight they shall see not Rome but Heaven in its glory they shall see Paul not in the Pulpit but on the Throne and shall sit with him they shall see Christs flesh not vail'd over with infirmities and disgraces but in its spiritual embroydery not a crucified but a glorified body They shall behold the King in his beauty Isa 33.17 What a glorious place will this be In heaven God will be all in all 1 Cor. 15.28 Beauty to the eye musick to the eares joy to the heart and this he will be to the poorest Saint as well as the richest O Christian who art now at thy hard labour perhaps following the plough thou shalt sit on the Throne of glory * Rev. 3.21 Quintus Curtius writes of

this is the reason why men do not embrace Christ who is infinitely lovely because they know not his worth though they are not grossely ignorant of Christ yet they are spiritually ignorant To this day the vaile is upon their heart 3. Branch 3. Bran. Inform. If Jesus Christ be so lovely it shewes us the misery of a man out of Christ 1. That lives without Christ 2. That dies without Christ 1. Behold his misery that lives without Christ He is very deformed and unlovely for all lovelinesse flows from Christ A sinner in the state of nature is like an infant tumbling in its blood Ezek. 16.6 Thou wert in thy blood The Leper in the Law was but the sad emblem of a sinner 1. * Lev. 13. The Leper was to live alone as being unworthy to come into the congregation of the holy 2. The Leper did wear three marks to be known by his garments torne his head bare his mouth covered 3. He was to cry unclean unclean This spirituall leprosie is upon every Christlesse sinner Therefore a man in a state of unregeneracy is in Scripture compar'd to things most unlovely and unbeautiful To a dog Revel 22.15 a swine * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Pet. 2.22 a Viper Mat. 3.7 * Homines à bono deficientes humanam quoque amisere naturam evenit igitur ut quem vitiis transformatum videas hominem aestimare non possis Alienarum opum ereptor lupo similem dixeris Ferox in quietus cani aut leoni parem insidiator fraudibus surripuisse gaudens vulpeculis exaequetur pavidus fugax cervus habeatur immundis libidinibus se immergens porcae comparetur ita fit ut peccans vertatur in belluam Boetius lib. 4. prosa 3. a Devil Joh. 6.70 a sinners heart is a poysoned spring 'T is like a piece of muddy ground which defiles the purest water that runnes thorough it The Heathen had this kinde of notion ingraffed into them for as Authours report they had their stone pots of water set at the doores of their Temple where they used to wash before they went to sacrifice a sinner is blinde Rev. 3.17 and the more blinde because he thinks he sees He is dead * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost ad Pop. Anticch and though he may be decked with some moral vertues this is but like strowing flowers upon a dead corps * Non vivit homo qui superbia inflatur qui caeteris insicitur pestibus quia hoc non est vivere c. Bern. in Serm 1. de Apostol Ephes 2.1 dead things have no beauty in them a sinner out of Christ is a filthy excrementitious creature * Job 15.16 he runs nothing but dregs he is hell epitomized There 's no part of him sound Totum pro vulnere corpus The man who had his running issue in his flesh Levit. 15.2 was but a type of a sinner who hath the plague-sores of sinne running upon him 1 King 8.38 Oh how ghastly and deformed is every Christlesse soul God loathes him Zach. 11.8 My soul loathed them So abominable and unsavory is a sinner that God stands afar off Psalme 138.6 He will not come near the stench of him The sinner is so deformed and diseased that when he comes to be converted the first thing he doth is to loath himself Ezek. 36.31 Ye shall loath your selves in your own sight for your iniquities Thus unlovely is every person out of Christ If he brags of his goodnesse it is because he never yet look'd his face in the glass of Gods Word that would discover his spots and blemishes 2. Behold his misery that dies without Christ Though Jesus Christ be so infinitely beautiful the sinner shall see none of his beauty Christ will put a vaile upon his face as Moses did when his face shined Exod. 34.33 Nay that is not all though Christ be so lovely in himself yet to an ungodly sinner he will be terrible to behold A wicked man shall see nothing in Christ that is lovely The Sunne of righteousnesse will be eclipsed to him his beauty will be changed into fury The Lamb will be turned to a Lion Christs visage will strike the heart of a sinner with horrour and amazement King Ahashuerus was pleasant to Queen-Esther to behold when he held forth the golden Scepter but how dreadful was his visage to Haman when he arose from the banquet of wine in his wrath Esther 7.7 His look did carry death in its face So though Christ be so lovely in himself and full of smiling beauty to his Saints yet to those who reject him and die in their sins O how gastly and affrighting will his look be His eyes will be as a flame of fire Revel 1.14 Christ is represented with a bewe and a crown Rev. 6.2 Give me leave to allude Christ will appeare to the Saints with a crown very lovely and glorious to behold but to the wicked he will appeare with his bowe to shoot at them with the arrows of his indignation We read Psalme 97.2 clouds and darknesse are round about him To beleevers Christ will shine forth with his rays of Majesty and beauty but to the wicked he will cover himself with a cloud of displeasure This will be the hell of hell to the damned they shall be shut out from a sight of Christs glory and shall behol donly a sight of his wrath They shall cry to the mountains to cover them from the face of him that sits on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb Rev. 6.16 The humane nature of Christ Hierom. saith Hierom will be as terrible to a sinner as the sight of hell fire Use 2 Use 2. Exhortation 1. Branch If Christ be so infinitely lovely Exhort 1. Bran. then let us labour to get a part in Christ that the cursed deformity of our nature may be taken away and the bespangled beauties of holinesse may shine in us 'T is little comfort for the soul to say Christ is altogether lovely unlesse it can also say My beloved is mine Cant. 2.16 Ignatius cared not what befel him so he had Christ * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ignat. Epist 12. ad Rom. Clear the interest The ground of priviledge is union There are saith Bernard many Christians who have nothing of Christ in them * Sine Christo Christiani Bern. Oh labour to be made one with Christ to have Christ not only in thy Bible but in thy heart * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 renounce thy own beauty all thy parts moralities duties these are a rotten bough to hold by Phil 3.9 That I may be found in him not having mine own righteousnesse When Augustus Caesar desired the Senate of Rome to joyn some with him in Consul-ship The Senate answered that they held it a great disparagement to him to joyne any Consul with him * Sueton. in vit Aug. Caes So Jesus Christ takes it as a great