Secondly, §2How necessary this heavenly exercise is, may easily be conceived, for that the hearts even of good Christians are too much pestered with unsavoury thoughts, desires and delights of folly, vanity, and much other naughtiness, that they think it utterly impossible to bring them to any better point; and no ⟨p. 6⟩wonder if they neglect this duty of Meditation, the understanding of the best settled Christian is dim, his memory feeble, his affections so overlaid with sin, that without much striving he cannot mount aloft, nor run swiftly in the way of Gods Commandments. So ponderous is the flesh that presseth down, that unless we labour the thing with our hearts, the word will not stick fast, nor work kindly, nor our affections rise to any good purposes: would we thrive in grace, and raise our desires and delight in heavenly things? we must breathe our selves well in Meditation.
Secondly, §2How necessary this heavenly exercise is, may easily be conceived, for that the hearts even of good Christians are too much pestered with unsavoury thoughts, desires and delights of folly, vanity, and much other naughtiness, that they think it utterly impossible to bring them to any better point; and no ⟨p. 6⟩wonder if they neglect this duty of Meditation, the understanding of the best setled Christian is dim, his memory feeble, his affections so overlaid with sin, that without much striving hee cannot mount aloft, nor run swiftly in the way of Gods Commandments. So ponderous is the flesh that presseth down, that unless wee labour the thing with our hearts, the word will not stick fast, nor work kindly, nor our affections rise to any good purposes: would wee thrive in grace, and raise our desires and delight in heavenly things? wee must breathe our selves well in Meditation.
