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A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically…
A supplement to The Morning-exercise at Cripple-Gate, or, Several more cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1676
Sermon 8: How we may Read the Scriptures with most Spiritual Profit. Serm. VIII.
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.
Meditate upon what you read, Psal. 119.15. I will meditate in thy Precepts. Direct. 8 The Hebrew 1word to Meditate, signifies to be intense in the mind; in Meditation there must be a fixing of the thoughts upon the object, Luke 2.19. The Virgin Mary pondered those things, &c. Meditation is the Concoction of Scripture; Reading brings a Truth into our head, Meditation brings it into our heart; Reading and Meditation must, like Castor and Pollux, appear together. Meditation without reading is erroneous; reading without Meditation is barren: the Bee sucks the flower, then works it in the Hive, and so turns it to Honey: by Reading we suck the flower of the Word, by Meditation we work it in the Hive of our mind, and so it turns to profit. Meditation is the bellows of the affections, Psal. 39.3. While I was musing the fire burned: The Reason we come away so cold from Reading the Word, is, because we do not warm our selves at the fire of Meditation.
Meditate upon what you read, Psal. 119.15. I will meditate in thy Precepts. Direct. 8 The Hebrew 1word to Meditate, signifies to be intense in the mind; in Meditation there must be a fixing of the thoughts upon the object, Luke 2.19. The Virgin Mary pondered those things, &c. Meditation is the Concoction of Scripture; Reading brings a Truth into our head, Meditation brings it into our heart; Reading and Meditation must, like Castor and Pollux, appear together. Meditation without reading is erroneous; reading without Meditation is barren: the Bee sucks the flower, then works it in the Hive, and so turns it to Hony: by Reading we suck the flower of the Word, by Meditation we work it in the Hive of our mind, and so it turns to profit. Meditation is the bellows of the affections, Psal. 39.3. While I was musing the fire burned: The Reason we come away so cold from Reading the Word, is, because we do not warm our selves at the fire of Meditation.