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4. I Call this Meditation [Set and Solemn] to difference it from that which is Occasional and Cursory. As there is Prayer, which is solemn, (when we set our selves wholly to the duty) and Prayer, which is sudden and short, commonly called, Ejaculations, (when a man in the midst of other business doth send up some brief request to God;) so also there is Meditation solemn, (when we apply our selves onely to that work;) and there is Meditation which is short and cursory, (when in the midst of our business we have some good thoughts of God in our mindes.) And as solemn Prayer is either, First, See, (when a Christian observing it as a standing duty, doth resolvedly practise it in a constant course;) or secondly, Occasional, (when some unusual occasion doth put us upon it at a season extraordinary;) so also Meditation admits of the like distinction. Now, though I would perswade you to that Meditation which is mixt with your common labors in your call∣ings; and to that which special occasions do direct you to; yet these are not the main thing which I here intend: But that you would make it a constant standing duty, as you do by Hearing, and Praying, and Reading the Scripture; and that you would so∣lemnly set your selves about it, and make it for that time your whole work, and intermix other matters no more with it, then you would do with prayer, or other duties. Thus you see, as it is differ∣enced by its act, what kinde of Meditation it is that we speak of, viz. It is the set and solemn acting of all the powers of the Soul.