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A treatise of divine meditation
A treatise of divine meditation, by that faithful servant of Jesus Christ Mr. John Ball, late minister of the Gospel at Whitmore in Staffordshire. Published by Simeon Ashe, preacher of the Gospel at Austins, London.
London: printed for H. Mortlock, 1660
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. §1First, He must get an heart desirous to reap profit by every thing that doth befall him. Love of wealth draws the covetous to study how he might turn all things to his advantage, and love of grace will produce the same effects in her kind.
Answ. §1First, Hee must get an heart desirous to reap profit by every thing that doth befall him. Love of wealth draws the covetous to study how he might turn all things to his advantage, and love of grace will produce the same effects in her kind.
Secondly, §2He must learn to read the power, goodness, bounty, and wisdom of the Lord written in fair characters in the large volume of the creatures, and in every leaf, and line thereof. The fire, hail, snow, rain, dew, frost, yea, herbs, plants, fish, and fowl, praise the Lord, that ⟨p. 85⟩is, give occasion to man to magnify the name of God, 1who is great and excellent.
Secondly, §2Hee must learn to read the power, goodness, bounty, and wisdome of the Lord written in fair characters in the large volume of the creatures, and in every leaf, and line thereof. The fire, hail, snow, rain, dew, frost, yea, herbs, plants, fish, and fowl, praise the Lord, that ⟨p. 85⟩is, give occasion to man to magnifie the name of God, 1who is great and excellent.