Special seasons of leisure and quietude for meditation are of great advantage, and ought to be chosen, as "Isaac went out to meditate in the field at eventide;" but what I principally urge is, that you should so learn the heavenly use of earthly things, as to find heaven and God in every thing; that your business, your work, and your pleasure, should be channels in which the streams of this acquaintance may perpetually flow. As "your life is hid with Christ in God," meditation should be your element; that as fish live in the water, and birds in the air, their natural and appropriate elements, so you should live spiritually.

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