Section 5

Rule 5. Conclude meditation with prayer. Pray over your meditations. Prayer sanctifies everything. Without prayer they are but unhallowed meditations. Prayer fastens meditation upon the Soul. Prayer is tying a knot at the end of meditation that it does not slip. Pray that God will keep those holy meditations in your mind forever, that the savor of them may abide upon your hearts, 1 Chronicles 29:18. O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel our Fathers, keep this forever in the imagination of the thoughts of thy people. So let us pray, that when we have been musing of heavenly things, and our hearts have **waxed hot within us*,** we may not cool into a sinful tepidness and lukewarmness, but that our affections may be as the lamp of the Sanctuary always burning.