The application of redemption

The second End of Meditation is, It settles it effectually §2upon the heart. It's not the pashing of the water at a sudden push, but the standing and soaking to the root, that loosens the weeds and thorns, that they may be plucked up easily. […] not the laying of Oil upon the benumbed part, but the chafing of it in, that suppleth the Joints, and easeth the pain. It is so in the […]; Application lays the Oil of the Word that is searching and savoury, Meditation chaseth it in, that it may soften and humble the hard and […] heart: Application is like the Conduit or Channel that brings the stream of the Truth upon the soul; […] Meditation stops it as it were, and makes it soak into the […], that so our corruptions may be plucked up kindly by the Roots.

The second End of Meditation is, It settles it effectually §2upon the heart. It's not the pashing of the water at a sudden push, but the standing and soaking to the root, that loosens the weeds and thorns, that they may be plucked up easily. 〈…〉 not the laying of Oyl upon the benummed part, but the chafing of it in, that suppleth the Joynts, and easeth the pain. It is so in the 〈…〉; Application laies the Oyl of the Word that is searching and savory, Meditation chaseth it in, that it may soften and humble the hard and 〈…〉 heart: Application is like the Conduit or Channel that brings the stream of the Truth upon the soul; 〈…〉 Meditation stops it as it were, and makes it soak into the 〈…〉, that so our corruptions may be plucked up kindly by the Roots.

This settling upon the heart appears in a three-fold work.