The mount of holy meditation: or a treatise shewing the nature and kinds of meditation the subject matter and ends of it; the necessity of meditation; together with the excellency and usefulnesse thereof. By William Gearing minister of the gospel at Lymington in the county of Southampton.
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- The mount of holy meditation: or a treatise shewing the nature and kinds of meditation the subject matter and ends of it; the necessity of meditation; together with the excellency and usefulnesse thereof. By William Gearing minister of the gospel at Lymington in the county of Southampton.
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- Gearing, William.
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- London :: printed for Francis Tyton at the three Daggers in Fleetstreet,
- 1662.
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- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
- title page
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To the Vertuous Gentlewoman M
rs Elizabeth Ashe ofAlsted, in the County ofKent; and to her Eldest and hopefull SonWilliam Ashe Esquire. - INDEX RERƲM.
- The Authors cited in this Treatise.
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THE MOUNT OF Holy Meditation.
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Chap. I. The porch or entrance into this Work. - Chap. 2.
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Chap. 3. Of the difference between medi∣tation and contemplation. -
Chap. 4. How study and meditation diff. -
Chap. 5. Of the gate of meditation. -
Chap. 6. Of the kinds of meditation; anfirst of rapt meditation. - Chap. 7.
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Chap. 8. Of the subject of Meditation.-
Sect. 1. Of meditaion on the works of God. -
Sect. 2. Of meditating on the Word of Go -
Sect. 3. Of meditating on Man; his Cre∣ation, his body, his soul, his priviledges. -
Sect 4. Of the fall ofAdam. -
Sect. 5. Of the nature of sin; the number of our sins; with the aggravations of them. -
Sect 6. Of the Sufferings and Death of Christ. -
Sect. 7. Of the Resurrection of Christ. -
Sect. 8. Of meditation on Death. -
Sect. 9. Of the fewness of them that shall be saved. -
Sect. 10. Of meditation on Hell. -
Sect. 11. Of meditation on the glory of Heaven.
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Chap. 9. Of timing our Meditations in the best manner. -
Chap. 10. An Exhortation to Medi∣tation; shewing also the necessity thereof. -
Chap. 11. Objections against setting about the practice of Meditation, answered. -
Chap. 12. Setting down the Rules about Meditation. -
Chap. 13. Of the excellency and useful∣nesse of Meditation. -
Chap. 14. The Motives to Medita∣tion.
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