when a christian is beslimed with earth, he cannot fly to God upon this wing. Saint Bernard when he came to the church-door, used to say, Stay here all my worldly thoughts, that I may converse with God in the temple: so say to thyself, I am going now to meditate, O all ye vain thoughts stay behind, come not near. When thou art going up the mount of meditation, take heed the world doth not follow thee, and throw thee down from the top of this pinnacle. This is the first thing, the soul’s retiring