DIVINE

MEDITATIONS

Upon

SEVERAL OCCASIONS:

With a

Dayly Directory.

By the Excellent Pen of

Sir William Waller, Kt.

&

LONDON.

Printed by B. Griffin for Benj. Alfop
at the Angel and Bible over against
the Stocks-Market, 1680.

141. M. 689.

THE

PREFACE

Christian Reader,

I

of

Will not draw the Justice this Dedication into Jufpicion by a needlefs Apology, fince 'tis evident none else will relish them, none else can improve them: Had I invited thofe degenerated Souls that

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bave

have jo far forgotten their celestial extract, as to plunge themselves in earthly pleasures, to enjoy thefe Divine Meditations, it had been the fame difcourteous Courtefie, as to turn a filthy Swine into a curious Garden or clear Fountain, whofe fordid inclinations would rather chufe to Wallow in the Mire, its own proper Element. To remove these earthly natures from their own grofs air, into the purer breathings of thefe Regions, is but to Transport Toads into Ireland, where the climate being