The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

Meditation keeps the heart in a good decorum. It plucks up the weeds of sin, ¹it prunes the luxuriant branches, it waters the flowers of grace, it sweeps all the walks in the heart, that Christ may walk there with delight. For want of holy meditation the heart lies like the sluggards field, Prov. 24.31. all overgrown with thorns and briars, unclean earthly thoughts. It is rather the devils hogsty, then Christs garden. Tis like a house fallen to ruin, fit only for unclean spirits to inhabit.

Meditation keeps the heart in a good decorum. It plucks up the weeds of sin, ¹it prunes the luxuriant branches, it waters the flowers of grace, it sweeps all the walks in the heart, that Christ may walk there with delight. For want of holy meditation the heart lies like the sluggards field, Prov. 24.31. all overgrown with thorns and briars, unclean earthly thoughts. It is rather the divels hogsty, then Christs garden. Tis like a house fallen to ruine, fit onely for unclean spirits to inhabit.

1. 1Plantae nobiliores sine cultu, siluescunt Albertus, Magnus.

Motive. 4 The fruitlessness of all other ⟨p. 255⟩meditations; one man lays out his thoughts about laying up; his meditations are how to raise himself in the world, and when he hath arrived at an estate often God blows upon it^*. His care is for his child, and perhaps God takes it away, or if it lives it proves a cross. Another meditates how to satisfy his ambition, Honour me before the people,