meditatest
English
Verb
meditatest
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of meditate
- 1598, Lewes of Granada, Francis Meres, transl., The Sinners Guyde. A Worke Contayning the Whole Regiment of a Christian Life Deuided into Two Bookes: VVherein Sinners Are Reclaimed from the By-Path of Vice and Destruction, and Brought vnto the High-Way of Euerlasting Happinesse., London: […] Iames Roberts, for Paule Linley, & Iohn Flasket, […], page 292:
- Thou art that euill ſeruant, who meditateſt in thine hart ſuch like things, as he did; thou delayeſt thy repentance, and thinkeſt that there is time enough left for thee, thou eateſt, drinkeſt, and perſeuereſt in thy ſinnes.
- 1650, Richard Baxter, The Saints Everlasting Rest: or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. Wherein Is Shewed Its Excellency and Certainty, the Misery of Those That Lose It, the Way to Attain It, and Assurance of It; and How to Live in the Continual Delightful Forecasts of It, by the Help of Meditation. […], London: […] Rob. White, for Thomas Underhil and Francis Tyton, […], page 385:
- And thy heart, when ever thou meditateſt of that day, ſhould meditate terror, […]
- 1657, William Fenner; [John Goodwin and Edmund Calamy, editors], “A Sermon of the use and benefit of Divine Meditation”, in A Divine Message to the Elect Soul. Delivered in Eight Sermons upon Seven Severall Texts., fourth edition, London: […] John Stafford, […], pages 2–3:
- I thought upon my ways & turned my feet unto thy teſtimonies, Pſal. 119. 59 ſaith David; that is, I looked on my ways on both ſides, above and beneath; it’s taken from curious works, which are the ſame on both ſides, ſo that they which work them, muſt often turn them on every ſide; uſed Exod. 38. 33. as being works with two faces, as one well observes. ſo it was with David, I turned my ways up ſide down, and looked every way upon them: thou never meditateſt, unleſſe thou look on thy ways on both ſides with all circumſtances.
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