A care-cloth

5.¹ After Prayer, or with it, holy Meditations must come in, both to quicken, as also to back it: and amongst all matter of meditation, against particular sins, we must accustom our selves specially to four general meditations, that are indifferently and equally forcible against every sin.² First, of the most holy and pure nature of God, how great, wise, just, true, merciful he is, that he hath an all-seeing eye, and an all-hearing ear, in every place beholding the evil and the good, and pondering all the paths of the sons of men, that he hateth sin with a perfect hatred, as being contrary to his most holy will and Commandments: that he will punish it with most severe punishment, as being the righteous Judge of all the world, who cannot endure iniquity, nor will hold the wicked innocent: that he is most gracious and loving to the penitent sinner, and will spare him as a father doth his child: that he will keep all his promises, and make good all his threatenings, with all faithfulness, and not suffer one tittle of his Word to fall to the ground. In a word, that he is every way most holy, and most ⟨p. 145⟩excellent, and will reward all that seek to him, and obey him; and avenge himself upon all that stubbornly rebel against him, and forsake the ways of his Commandments, to walk after their own crooked devices and inventions.

5.¹ After Prayer, or with it, holy Meditations must come in, both to quicken, as also to backe it: and amongst all matter of mditation, against particular sinnes, we must accustome our selues specially to foure generall meditations, that are indifferently and equally forcible against euery sinne.² First, of the most holy and pure nature of God, how great, wise, iust, true, mercifull he is, that hee hath an all-seeing eye, and an all-hearing eare, in euery place beholding the euill and the good, and pondering all the pathes of the sonnes of men, that hee hateth sinne with a perfect hatred, as being contrary to his most holy will and Commandements: that he will punish it with most seuere punishment, as being the righteous Iudge of all the world, who cannot indure iniquity, nor will hold the wicked innocent: that he is most gracious and louing to the penitent sinner, and will spare him as a father doth his child: that hee will keepe all his promises, and make good all his threatnings, with all faithfulnesse, and not suffer one tittle of his Word to fall to the ground. In a word, that he is euery way most holy, and most