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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
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.
6. Accustom your self to a serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in Heaven will engender in us purer spirits, and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning would secure us for all the day. Though other necessary thoughts about our callings will, and ⟨p. 13⟩must come in, yet when we have dispatched them, let us attend our morning Theme as our chief companion. As a man that is going with another about some considerable business, suppose to Westminster, though he meets with several friends in the way, and salutes some, and with others with whom he hath some affairs he spends a little time, yet he quickly returns to his companion, and both together go their intended stage. Do thus in the present case. Our minds are active, and will be doing something though to little purpose, and if they be not fixed upon some noble object, they will like mad men and fools be mightily pleased in playing with straws.1 The thoughts of God were the first Visitors David had in the morning; God and his heart met together as soon as he was awake, and kept company all the day after. In this meditation look both to the matter and manner.
6. Accustom your self to a serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in Heaven will engender in us purer spirits, and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning would secure us for all the day. Though other necessary thoughts about our callings will, and ⟨p. 13⟩must come in, yet when we have dispatch'd them, let us attend our morning Theme as our chief companion. As a man that is going with another about some considerable business, suppose to Westminster, though he meets with several friends in the way, and salutes some, and with others with whom he hath some affairs he spends a little time, yet he quickly returns to his companion, and both together go their intended stage. Do thus in the present case. Our minds are active, and will be doing something though to little purpose, and if they be not fixed upon some noble object, they will like mad men and fools be mightily pleased in playing with straws.1 The thoughts of God were the first Visiters David had in the morning; God and his heart met together as soon as he was awake, and kept company all the day after. In this meditation look both to the matter and manner.