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

For instance; First, When you have been meditating of Sin, which for its bitterness is compared to Grapes of Gall, for its damnableness to poison of asps; and you begin to burn in an holy indignation against sin, now put your meditations in practise, Give sin a Bill of Divorce, Job 11.14. If iniquity be ⟨p. 272⟩in thy hand put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy Tabernacles.

2. When you have been meditating of the Graces of the spirit, let the verdure and lustre of these graces be seen in you: live these graces; meditate, that you may observe and do; 'Twas St. Pauls counsel to Timothy; 1 Tim. 4.7. exercise thy self to Godliness. Meditation and practise are like a pair of Compasses, the one part of the compass fixeth upon the centre, and the other part goes round the circumference; a Christian by meditation fixeth upon God as the Centre, and by practice goes round the circumference of the Commandments; A man who hath let his thoughts run out upon riches, will not only have them in the notion, but will endeavour to get riches; Let your meditations ⟨p. 273⟩be practical; when you have been meditating upon a promise, live upon a promise; when you have been meditating of a good conscience, never leave till you can say as Paul, Herein I exercise my self to have a good conscience, Acts 24.16. ^*Beloved, here lies the very essence of Religion.

2. When you have been meditating of the Graces of the spirit, let the verdure and lustre of these graces be seen in you: live these graces; meditate, that you may observe and do; 'Twas St. Pauls counsel to Timothy;