758 Book. IV Part.4. L1oking unto 1efus. Chap.2.Secb. refurred:ion fure and certaine; ftudy all the apparitions of Jefus Chrift; Oh what delightful ftudyes are thefe ? h:~dll thou been with them to whom Chrift appeared, would not thy heart have leaped with joy ? come, ftudy it clofe, for the benefit of thefe apparitions extend to thee; the fruit of Chrifts refurreCl:ion is thine, even thine, as well as theirs ; k..naw thu for th] felfe . .,.-.-.. --------·~-------- SECT.2. ef CO?Jjidering {e{m in that refpect. .;z. LEt_usconjider}e(m, carrying_ on thig _workofourfalvatwn for us mhts refum~ct:wn. It 1s not enough to know a faving necelfary truth, but it is required further that we · digeft truths, · and that we draw forrh thetr ftrength for the nourHhment an~ refre!hing ofour poore foul s. As a man may in halfe an houre chew and rak~ tnto his ftomack that meate, which he mull have feven or eight boures at leall to digell; fo a man may take into his undedtandmg more truths in an houre, than he is able well to digeft in many; what good thofe men are like to get by Sermons, or providences, who are unaccullomed to this work of meditation , I cannot imagine ; it is obferved by fome, ·that this is the reafon why fo much preaching is loll a• mongft us; why profelforsthatrun from Sermon to Sermon, and are never weary of hearing or reading, have notwithftanding fuch languiiliing ftarved fouls, becaufe they will not meditate. And therefore Cod commanded {ofhua, not only to reade the law, but to confider of it, and dwell upon it : thu book. of the lttw fhall not dept~rt out ofthy mouth, but thou [halt meditate therein d~J 11nd night; why, this is the duty that I am now preffing to; if thou knoweft thefe things, confider, ruminate, meditate, ponder on them againe , and againe. And becaufe this work requires enlargedoeffe of heart and fpirit, therefore take it into parts, and confider of each of them apart by it felfe. As,- I. Confiderofthetimewhen Chriftrofeagaine. As Chrif.l • h~ ..
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