The application of redemption

It provokes a man (by a kind of over-bearing power)§3 to the practice of that with which he is so affected: A settled and serious Meditation of any thing, is as the setting open of the Flood-gates, which carries […] soul with a kind of force and violence, to the performance of what he so bestows his mind upon; as a mighty stream let out turns the mill. Phil. 4. 9. Think of these things, and do them: thinking men are doing men. Psal. 39. 3. While I was thus musing, the fire brake ⟨p. 217⟩out, and I spake: the busy stirring of Meditation is like the raising of a tempest in the heart, that carries out all the actions of the man by an uncontrollable command. I considered my ways, and turned my feet unto thy Statutes: right Consideration, brings in a right Reformation with it.

It provokes a man (by a kind of over-bearing power)§3 to the practice of that with which he is so affected: A settled and serious Meditation of any thing, is as the setting open of the Flood-gates, which carries 〈…〉 soul with a kind of force and violence, to the performance of what he so bestows his mind upon; as a mighty stream let out turns the mill. Phil. 4. 9. Think of these things, and do them: thinking men are doing men. Psal. 39. 3. While I was thus musing, the fire brake ⟨p. 217⟩out, and I spake: the busie stirring of Meditation is like the raising of a tempest in the heart, that carries out all the actions of the man by an uncontroulable command. I considered my waies, and turned my feet unto thy Statutes: right Consideration, brings in a right Reformation with it.