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

Rule. 6 The last Rule is, Let meditation be reduced to practise; live over your Meditation, Josh. 1.8. Thou shalt Meditate in this book, that thou mayest observe to do according ⟨p. 270⟩to all that is written therein. Meditation and practise like two sisters must go hand in hand. Cassian saith that the contemplative life cannot be perfected without the practic. ¹We read that the angels had wings, & hands under their wings, Ezek. 1.8. It may be an Hieroglyphical Emblem of this truth; Christians must not only fly upon the wing of Meditation, but they must be active in obedience, they must have hands under their wings. The end of Meditation is action. We must not only Meditate in Gods law but walk in his law. Deuter. 28.9. Without this we are like those Gnostics of whom Epiphanius complains, they had much knowledge, but were in their lives licentious. Christians must be like the Sun, which doth not only send forth heat, but goes its circuit round ⟨p. 271⟩the world; 'tis not enough that the affections be heated by meditation, but we must go our circuit too, that is, move regularly in the sphere of obedience. After warming at the fire of Meditation, we must be fitter for work. Meditation is the life of Religion, and practice is the life of meditation. 'Tis said in the Honour of Nazianzen, fecit quae docuit, he lived over his own Sermons. So a good Christian must live over his own meditations.