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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.
Fourthly, §4That care be had to do, and receive good in company.
Fourthly, §4That care bee had to do, and receive good in company.
Fifthly, §5That our family be with diligence and regard instructed, watched over, and governed.
Fifthly, §5That our family bee with diligence and regard instructed, watched over, and governed.
Twelfthly, §12That we use (as we shall have opportunity, at least as we shall have necessity) to acquaint our selves with some godly, and faithful persons, with whom we may confer of our Christian estate, 1and open our doubts, to the quickening up of ⟨p. 113⟩Gods Graces in us.
Twelfthly, §12That wee use (as wee shall have opportunity, at least as wee shall have necessity) to acquaint our selves with some godly, and faithful persons, with whom wee may confer of our Christian estate, 1and open our doubts, to the quickening up of ⟨p. 113⟩Gods Graces in us.
Thirteenthly, §13That we observe the departure of men out of this life, their mortality, 1the vanity and alteration of things below, the more to contemn the world, and to continue our longing after the life to come: And that we meditate, and muse often on our own death, and going out of this life, how we must lye in the grave, which will serve to beat down the pride of life in us.
Thirteenthly, §13That wee observe the departure of men out of this life, their mortality, 1the vanity and alteration of things below, the more to contemn the world, and to continue our longing after the life to come: And that wee meditate, and muse often on our own death, and going out of this life, how wee must lye in the grave, which will serve to beat down the pride of life in us.
Fifteenthly, §15That we enter into Covenant with God, that we will strive against all sin, especially against the special sins and corruptions of our hearts, ⟨p. 114⟩and lives, wherein we have most dishonoured the Lord, and raised up most guiltiness to our own consciences; 1that we carefully see our Covenant with God kept and continued.
Fifteenthly, §15That wee enter into Covenant with God, that wee will strive against all sin, especially against the special sins and corruptions of our hearts, ⟨p. 114⟩and lives, wherein wee have most dishonoured the Lord, and raised up most guiltiness to our own consciences; 1that wee carefully see our Covenant with God kept and continued.
Sixteenthly, §16That we mark how sin dieth, 1and is weakened in us, and that we turn not to our old sins again, but wisely avoid all occasions of sin.
Sixteenthly, §16That wee mark how sin dieth, 1and is weakned in us, and that wee turn not to our old sins again, but wisely avoid all occasions of sin.
Seventeenthly, §17That we fall not from our first love, but continue still our affections to the liking of Gods Word, 1and all the holy exercises of Religion, diligently hearing it, and faithfully practising it in our lives and conversations; that we prepare our selves before we come, meditate and confer of that we hear, either by our selves, or with others, and so mark our daily profiting in Religion.
Seventeenthly, §17That wee fall not from our first love, but continue still our affections to the liking of Gods Word, 1and all the holy exercises of Religion, diligently hearing it, and faithfully practising it in our lives and conversations; that wee prepare our selves before wee come, meditate and confer of that wee hear, either by our selves, or with others, and so mark our daily profiting in Religion.
