A25248:52
Redeeming the time a sermon preached at Preston in Lancashire, January 4th, 1657 at…
Redeeming the time a sermon preached at Preston in Lancashire, January 4th, 1657 at the funeral of the honourable lady, the Lady Margaret Houghton / by Isaac Ambrose.
London: printed for Rowland Reynolds, 1674
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.
2. I should meditate. I shall not determine whether Morning or Evening may be more suitable for set, deliberate, and solemn meditation? only this I affirm, that either a solemn, or an occasional meditation is a Morning-duty. In some sort meditation and prayer should ever go together;1 and David thus, couples them, Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation, hearken to the voice of my cry.—My voice shalt thou hear in the Morning, O Lord, in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee. Now these Morning-meditations (if occasional or ejaculatory) may be on such Objects as these.
2. I should meditate. I shall not determine whether Morning or Evening may be more suitable for set, deliberate, and solemn meditation? onely this I affirm, that either a solemn, or an occasional meditation is a Morning-duty. In some sort meditation and prayer should ever go together;1 and David thus, couples them, Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation, hearken to the voice of my cry.—My voice shalt thou hear in the Morning, O Lord, in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee. Now these Morning-meditations (if occasional or ejaculatory) may be on such Objects as these.
1. Upon my first waking I may think on that Morning of my Resurrection, when the Lord will awake me from the dust; it is but a while till the trump shall sound, Awake, 1and sing ye that dwell in the dust, for thy dew is as the dew of herbs; and then shall the earth cast out her dead.
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