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The Puritans are remembered for their vast expository on the Bible, their simplification of doctrine and worship, and their passionate preaching. This remarkable collection of classical sermons consists of six volumes of practical as well as doctrinal discourses, preached by some of the most renowned Puritan ministers of the seventeenth century. Published between 1659 and 1689, over seventy...

the word stays not in the memory, it cannot profit. Some can better remember a piece of news than a line of scripture; their memories are like those ponds, where the frogs live, but the fish die. DIRECT. VIII. Meditate upon what you read.—“I will meditate in thy precepts.” (Psalm 119:15.) The Hebrew word, הָנָה, “to meditate,” signifies, “to be intense in the mind.”* In meditation there must be a fixing of the thoughts upon the object: the Virgin Mary “pondered” those things, &c. (Luke 2:19.)
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