A Body of Practical Divinity

II. Meditation. Get upon the Mount of Meditation, and so converse with God. Meditation is the Soul's retiring of its self, that by a serious and solemn thinking upon God the Heart may be raised up to Divine Affections.

Meditation is a Work fit for the Morning of a Sabbath. Meditate on Four things.

(1.) On the Works of Creation. That is expressed here in the Commandment, The Lord made Heaven and Earth, the Sea, &c. The Creation is a Looking-glass, in which we see the Wisdom and Power of God gloriously represented. God produced this fair Structure of the World without any pre-existent Matter, and with a Word. Psal. 33.6. By the Word of the Lord were the Heavens made. The Disciples wondered that Christ could with a Word calm the Sea, Matth. 8.26. but it was far more with a Word to make the Sea. Let us on a Sabbath meditate on the Infiniteness of our Creator, look up to the Firmament, there we may see God's Glory blazing in the Sun, twinkling in the Stars; look into the Sea, there we may see God's Wonders in the Deep, Psal. 107.24. Look into the Earth, there we may behold the Nature of Minerals, the Power of the Load-stone, the Virtue of Herbs, and Beauty of Flowers: By meditating on these Works of Creation so curiously embroidered, we come to admire God, and praise him, Psal. 104.24. O Lord, how manifold are thy Works! in Wisdom hast thou made them all. By meditating on the Works of Creation we come to confide in God. He who can Create, can Provide; he that could make us when we were nothing, he can raise us when we are low.