The application of redemption

As by way of preparation it fits for spiritual services §3before we do them, so it confirms and settles the good of them unto our souls when they are done then shall your profiting appear, if you meditate upon these things 1 Tim. 3. 15. Sermons will not profit though we hear and that attentively. Sacraments will not profit, conference, reading will not profit, though we studiously for the present turn & bestow our selves thereupon, unless we meditate afterward. As exercise before meat to stir up the stomach to receive meat, So digestion after meat, if we hope to have any strength, meditation is both, it stirs up the affection to the duty, and then digests the good and sap of the service and turns it into good blood. Tuum illud est quod Meditatio facit […].

As by way of preparation it fits for spiritual services §3before we do them, so it confirms and settles the good of them unto our souls when they are done then shal your profiting appear, if you meditate upon these things 1 Tim. 3. 15. Sermons wil not profit though we hear and that attentively. Sacraments wil not profit, conference, reading wil not profit, though we studiously for the present turn & bestow our selves therupon, unless we meditate afterward. As exercise before meat to stir up the stomach to receive meat, So digestion after meat, if we hope to have any strength, meditation is both, it stirs up the affection to the duty, and then digests the good and sap of the service and turns it into good blood. Tuum illud est quod Meditatio facit 〈…〉.

Secondly. Men complain they have no time, occasions ¹so many, business crowds in so with such multitudes