Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

1 For the first, viz. the Nature of it, what it is? I answer, a set and deliberate Meditation,¹ is a serious applying of the mind to some spiritual or heavenly subject, discoursing thereof with thy self, to the end thine heart may be warmed, thine affections quickened, and thy resolutions heightened to a greater love of God, hatred of sin, &c.

1 For the first, viz. the Nature of it, what it is? I answer, a set and deliberate Meditation,¹ is a serious applying of the mind to some spiritual or heavenly subject, discoursing thereof with thy self, to the end thine heart may bee warmed, thine affections quickened, and thy resolutions heightned to a greater love of God, hatred of sin, &c.

1. 1Meditari nil aliud est quam mul•oties rem aliquam considerare. Th. Aquia.

Come we now to the Rules and Directions for the right manner of performing the same. To this end I shall treat 1 Of the Time, when this duty is to be performed, 2 Of the Place where. Of the Manner of setting about it, and performing it.

1 Touching the Time when this duty is to be performed, and how often, it is hard to give any set or certain Rule. For difference must be made between such as are rich, and wealthy, who have much spare •ime; and poor men who live by their daily labour, and have •ittle time to spare from the same, for the performance