The application of redemption

3. The use of this affects and fits the heart to the duties that are to be discharged. It's a preparative to many daily performances in our Christian course, it quickens the holy dispensations of the soul, chargeth it with confessions and petitions seasonable and savoury that they may be delivered with feeling and affections when the heart is boiling of a good matter, Psal. 45. 1. So Psal. 102. 1. I will pour out my meditation that is his prayer; meditation was the mint or Anvil upon which our prayers should be made. And therefore Divines refer it to the third Commandment as that which is an Harbinger to all holy duties we do to God, stirring up the faculties of the whole man, to that reverend attendance which becomes the majesty of the Almighty, Eccles. 5. 1. and the advice of the wise man is to look to our feet, as in the public so in private also.

3. The use of this affects and fits the heart to the duties that are to be discharged. It's a preparative to many daily perfourmances in our Christian course, it quickens the holy dispensations of the soul, chargeth it with confessions and petitions feasonable and savory that they may be delivered with feeling and affections when the heart is boyling of a good matter, Psal. 45. 1. So Psal. 102. 1. I will pour out my meditation that is his prayer; meditation was the mint or Anvil uponwhich our prayers should be made. And therefore Divines refer it to the third Commandment as that which is an Harbenger to al holy duties we do to God, stirring up the faculties of the whol man, to that reverend attendance which becomes the majesty of the Almighty, Eccles. 5. 1. and the advice of the wise man is to look to our feet, as in the publick so in private also.