A20762:1802
A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties
A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helps enabling & the reasons persuading unto it the impediments hindering the practise of it, and the best means to remove them whereunto are added divers prayers and a treatise of carnal security by John Douname Bachelor in Divinity and minister of Gods Word.A guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helpes inabling & the reasons parswading vnto it ye impediments hindering ye practise of it, and the best meanes to remoue them whereunto are added diuers prayers and a treatise of carnall securitie by Iohn Douname Batcheler in Diuinitie and minister of Gods Word.
London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622
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.
CAP. XV.
Of extraordinary Meditation.
§. Sect. 1 What extraordinary meditation is, and the subject of it.
§. Sect. 1 What extraordinary meditation is, and the subiect of it.
And thus much of meditation in general: The which, howsoever it doth not easily admit of any formal distribution 1according to the strict rules of art, yet it may, like prayer, be distinguished into two kinds. For as prayers are either extraordinary and at large, the which are continually to be made, and at any time whatsoever, when any fit occasion or opportunity is offered either of petition, or thanksgiving, the which we call Ejaculations; or else ordinary and at set times, when as with due preparation we purposely compose our selves to perform this duty in a solemn manner: So our meditations may be distinguished into such as are extraordinary and at large; or else ordinary and at set times, when as with due deliberation and preparation, setting all other things apart, we settle our selves to spend some time in this religious exercise. The former sort of meditations are sudden, and continually in use, when any occasion or opportunity is offered and observed, by outward objects presented to our senses, especially the sight and hearing, or by some inward conceit in our imagination or discourse of our minds, whereof we may make some spiritual use, and raise up our minds from the earth towards heaven, in some holy meditation. The which may be done at all times, and in all employments, as in the works of our callings, or in our honest recreations, when we are in