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 Let the subject matter of thy Meditation be wholly spiritual and divine. Thus any part of the Scripture is a fit subject for thy Meditation, as also God, or any of his Attributes, as […] Omnipotency, Eternity, Immutability, Omnipresence, Omniscience, […], Wisdom, ⟨p. 40⟩Mercy, Justice, Love, Faithfulness, and other excellencies of God: As also the blessed and happy estate wherein our first Parents were created by God, and that miserable estate whereinto they implunged themselves, and all their posterity, by their disobedience against God in eating the forbidden fruit; and the state of Redemption by Jesus Christ, and the transcendent love of Christ in undergoing a bitter cursed death for us.

1 Let the subject matter of thy Meditation bee wholly spiritual and divine. Thus any part of the Scripture is a fit subject for thy Meditation, as also God, or any of his Attributes, as 〈…〉 Omnipotency, Eternity, Immutability, Om•ipresence, Omnisciency, 〈…〉, Wisdome, ⟨p. 40⟩Mercy, Iustice, Love, Faithfulness, and other excellencies of God: As also the blessed and happy estate wherein our first Parents were created by God, and that miserable estate whereinto they implunged themselves, and all their posterity, by their disobedience against God in eating the forbidden fruit; and the state of Redemption by Jesus Christ, and the transcendent love of Christ in undergoing a bitter cursed death for us.

2 Let the particular subject thou pitchest upon for thy Meditation, be suitable to thy present state and condition; and to that end in setting upon this duty, it will be thy wisdom to observe the frame and temper of thy heart. If thou findest thine heart sad and heavy, then fix thy Meditation upon thy sins, that so thou mayest turn thy sorrow and sadness for outward things, into a sorrow for thy sins. But if thou findest thine heart lightsome and cheerful, then fix thy Meditations on the incomprehensible love of God, or on the freeness of his grace, or on the bounty of God, especially towards thy self.