Edward Reynolds on meditation

[Reformed Covenanter]

... Now one excellent means of fixing the heart on God, is meditation, whereby a man calls together All that is within him to bless his name, Psalm 103.1. Meditation is the wing of the soul which carrieth the affections thereof to things above; by this, as Moses, it goeth up to the top of Pisgah to take a view of the promised land. It is as Clemens Alexandrinus saith of prayer, a conversing with God; as Chrysostom saith of faith, so may we of Meditation, It makes God, and Christ, and precepts, and promises ours, by giving us a fuller possession of them. Hereby we hold fast the things which we have learned, we awaken our faith, inflame our love, strengthen our hope, revive our desires, increase our joys in God; we furnish our hearts, and fill our mouths with materials of prayer, we loosen our affections from the world, we praeacquaint our selves with those glories which we yet but hope for, and get some knowledge of that love of Christ which passeth knowledge.

Meditation is the palate of the soul whereby we taste the goodness of God; the eye of the soul whereby we view the beauties of holiness; … whereby our spiritual senses are exercised, Acts 24.16. Heb. 5.14. it is the key to the wine-cellar, to the banqueting house, to the garden of spices, which letteth us in unto him whom our soul loveth; it is the arm whereby we embrace the promises at a distance, and bring Christ and our souls together. ...

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