Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

2. Let us consider Jesus, carrying on this work of our salvation for us in his resurrection. It is not enough to know a saving necessary truth, but it is required further that we digest truths, and that we draw forth their strength for the nourishment and refreshing of our poor souls. As a man may in half an hour chew and take into his stomach that meat, which he must have seven or eight hours at least to digest; so a man may take into his understanding more truths in an hour, than he is able well to digest in many; what good those men are like to get by Sermon's or Providences, who are unaccustomed to this work of meditation, I cannot imagine; it is observed by some, that this is the reason why so much preaching is lost amongst us; why Professors that run from Sermon to Sermon, and are never weary of hearing or reading, have notwithstanding such languish starved souls, because they will not meditate. And therefore God commanded, Joshua, not only to read the Law, but to consider of it,¹ and dwell upon it; This Book of the Law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night; why, this is the duty that I am now pressing to; if thou knowest these things, consider, ruminate, meditate, ponder on them again, and again. And because this work requires enlargedness of heart and spirit, therefore take it into parts, and consider of each of them apart by it self. As—

2. LEt us consider Jesus, carrying on this work of our salvation for us in his resurrection. It is not enough to know a saving necessary truth, but it is required further that we digest truths, and that we draw forth their strength for the nourishment and refreshing of our poor souls. As a man may in half an hour chew and take into his stomack that meat, which he must have seven or eight hours at least to digest; so a man may take into his understanding more truths in an hour, than he is able well to digest in many; what good those men are like to get by Sermon's or Providences, who are unaccustomed to this work of meditation, I cannot imagine; it is observed by some, that this is the reason why so much preaching is lost amongst us; why Professors that run from Sermon to Sermon, and are never weary of hearing or reading, have notwithstanding such languish starved souls, because they will not meditate. And therefore God commanded, Joshua, not only to read the Law, but to consider of it,