Diretl. 20. Pireflions for young Students, 9· 62. Thismu£1 be your bread and drink; your <lai)y and fitb!lantial food: without this you may foon be filled wirh air, that cannot nourifh you, and prov~ in the end as founding brafs and tinkling Cymbals: Thefe will breed ftrength, and peace, and joy;and help you in your Commu– nion with God, and hopes of Heaven, and fo promote the End nf all your Studies! There is ~ore life and fweetnefs in thefe, than in the things that are lllOre remote' .frbm God and Heaven. 9· 63. Dired. 20. Laftly, Do all a1 dying men : promife Hot your filves lo~g life, left it temptyou to w:zfte yqur timt on thingJ leajf ntc_tffary, a)1.d to loiter it away; or left you lofe ~~ quic_k.,Uiltg,'bemfit which the fight of death a~d eternity wo;tld yi<ld you, in aU yOJJr ftudie~. 1 . ' 9· 64. ;The 0c;a1er you apprehend your (elves to death ~nd Heave•, 1he greater thclp<yqu have to bo mprtiJied an~ H<~venly : This will wake you ferious ,.· and keep up· right intentions, and keep <;>ut wro,ng ones, aq~ po)'lerfully help .you again£1 temptations, that when y.ou have (ludied to fave others you may not ~e ca£1-awayes; ,n0r be cheated by the Devil with thejheU, and iea<~l!!, and fiowm, while you go without the faving fruit. ._. , 9· 65.1 have fpoken the more on this fubjed of Gliv•ming the 1hougbtl, becaufe ~it is ,fo grrit and excellent a part.of the work of m;t~; .and God doth fo much regard the heart; ano theSpirit ofChri£1 and S~tan fo much !lrive for it ; and grace is fo much employed about it : and ou.r H 1 ppi– nefs or !flifery, Joy or forrow, is greatly promoted by our Thoughts. And tJ(Ore I wo4.l!ihave faid, but that in the t.hird Cbaprer, and in· my Treatife of the DiviJtt Life there is much fai8 ahcady. 1\nd for a Metbpda)td JJirtf1ions for particular Meditations, I have given it at large in the fourth Part of the Sai1111 Rtj1, from whence it ma.y eafily be taken, and applyed to other fubjeds, as it.is there to Hialltn: l't is eafi< to WJite and read Dirtlli"u: but Ifear left Oothfulnefs through. 'he di~lty of Pra{Jie,e, will frullrat~ tD.y Diref1ipm to the mofi. But if any profit by them> my labour is . not lo£1. · CHAP.
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