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you may gain much knowledge of the head, but little goodness to your heart. If you only apply to yourself that whereon you have mused, and no more; you may, by finding yourself to be a transgressor, lay guilt upon your conscience, and terror upon your heart, without fruit or comfort; but if to these two, you lay a charge upon yourself to follow God's counsel concerning what you should believe and do, when you have offended him; if you also form an upright design, through God's grace, to be such an one as you ought to be, and to live such a life hereafter as you ought to live; then unto science you add conscience, and to knowledge, you join practice, and will find the comfortable and happy effects thereof. Observe David's meditations, and you will find they came to this issue. His thoughts of God and of his ways, made him turn his feet unto God's testimonies, Psa. cxix. 59. The meditation of God's benefits made him resolve to take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord, and to pay his vows, Psa. cxvi. 12 - 14. When he considered what God had done for him, and thence inferred what he should be to God again, he saith to his soul. My soul, and all that is in me, praise his holy name, Psa. ciii. 1 - 3. When in his meditation he found that it was his fault to have his soul disquieted in him through distrust, he charges it to wait on God, Psa. xlii. 5 - 11, and raises up himself unto a holy confidence. I will meditate on thy precepts, saith he. What, is that all? No, but he proceeds to this last act of meditation, and saith, I will have respect unto thy ways, Psa. cxix. 15, 16, 106.

Rules for meditation.

(2.) God's holy nature, attributes, word, works, also what is duty, and what is sin; what you should be, and do; what you are, and what you have done, what are the miseries of the wicked, and what are the happiness and privileges of the righteous, are fit subjects of meditation.

(3.) That which must settle your judgment, and be the rule to direct you what to hold for true and good, must be the canon of God's word rightly under-