Meditations on Christian Dogma #264888

1. Read the meditation over-night.<br><br>2. Review it at intervals till next morning.<br><br>3. Affections of love and joy up to the meditation.<br><br>Introduction.<br><br>1. Place yourself in the presence of God.<br><br>2. Act of humility: acknowledge your unworthiness.<br><br>3.Confess your incapacity: ask for aid.<br><br>The Meditation.<br><br>I. Adoration.<br><br>1. Contemplate the subject in God the Father, or in Jesus Christ: with reference to His (1) Dispositions, (2) Words, (3) Actions.<br><br>2. Offer Him, with respect to the subject, (1) Adoration, (2) Admiration, (3) Praise, (4) Love, (5) Joy, (6) Gratitude.<br><br>II. Reflex action on yourself.<br><br>Transfer to yourself what you have contemplated in God, considering: -<br><br>1. What example, or warning, or knowledge is to be gathered with a view to your own case?<br><br>2. What are your past negligences, present deficiencies, future needs?<br><br>3. What grace do you require from God?