N i vv c 0 V E N ANT. 417 enquire into them, if thou canfi: live under a good Minifier, that is lively, and powerfull, andenlightning) fet a higherprice upon him, ' than thou haft done; if thou haft an ·eftate fp3re nothingforthyfoulesgood: for if wife~ dome be better than Gold, and Silver, why 1houldnoryou partwith them fodt ~ and fo byconference be doing fomething. We fee, Pfal. r . what they are that are pronouncedblef– Jfld,thatmeditatein theLawofo odday &night, it is upon this ground, when amanmeditates, that is, when he delights in it, (he \vill not me– ditate in it elfe) grace will follow : for there is no man ,bleifed, unlelfe he hath grace,and the propofition1hould not be fure, except a man doe fettle himfelfe to meditate day and night. Now this brings abilitie to keepe the I.aw; and ' therefore,Iof.r.8 .youfhallfindit focxprelfed; faith theLordto Iofuah, Lnnot the Law depart ,- out ofthy mouth, 6mmeditatcinit day andni'-~ht, that thcu maijlotjeruettnddo it, that fo ~hoeJ maift make thy wayes toprojjer,then thou /halt luJU&good Jttcc1fe.Marke,i faman be fiil taken up in doing . fomething, i~ the th ings that 'belong'l _o the Kingdome of God, that he make that the e– lement that ' he lives in, as it were, that hee _ma'ke it his chiefe and principall frudy, that he bufie himfelfe about it from time to time, as much as pofii-bly he can get leafure, that he preferr·eit before ;rll things elfe; doe it both day . and night; by this he fha!l · b~ more able tokeepethcLaw,heiha:llbemore able to Iof.I ,8. Meditation · of the Law:t a , belpctak~epe it. ;X k3 obferue ________ _:::__ ____________
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