Rules for Meditation.
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Rules for Meditation.
1 First, let the word be the object, and beware of mingling it with mens devices, Psalm. 1. 2. 26. 119. 99. Secondly, hear, read, and confer much with reverence and diligence, else our Meditations may be erroneous, Psal: 119. 99. The Prophet was wiser then his teachers: therefore he had instructions and conference before his meditation. Joshua 1and Timothy were commanded to read before, and then to meditate.
1 FIrst, let the word be the obiect, and beware of mingling it with mens deuices,