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

To Meditation join Examination. Rule. 4 When you have been meditating on any spiritual subject, put a query to thy soul, and though it be short let it be serious. O my soul, is it thus with thee or no? when thou hast been meditating about the fear of God, that it is the beginning of Wisdom^*, Put a query, O my soul, Is this fear planted in thy heart? Thou art almost come to the end of thy days, Art thou yet come to the beginning of Wisdom? When thou hast been meditating on Christ, his Virtues, his Privileges; put ⟨p. 267⟩a query, O my soul, Dost thou love him who is so Lovely^*, and art thou ingrafted into him? Art thou a living branch of this living vine? When thou hast been meditating upon the Graces of the Spirit; put a query, O my soul, art thou adorned, as the Bride of Christ with this chain of Pearl? Hast thou thy Certificate for heaven ready? Will not thy Graces be to seek when thou shouldst have them to show? Thus should a Christian, in his retirements, parley often with his heart.

To Meditation join Examination. Rule. 4 When you have been meditating on any spirituall subject, put a query to thy soul, and though it be short let it be serious. O my soul, is it thus with thee or no? when thou hast been meditating about the fear of God, that it is the beginning of Wisdome^*, Put a query, O my soul, Is this fear planted in thy heart? Thou art almost come to the end of thy daies, Art thou yet come to the beginning of Wisdom? When thou hast been meditating on Christ, his Virtues, his Privileges; put