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SOLITUDE IMPROVED.

BY

DIVINE MEDITATION;

OR,

A TREATISE

PROVING THE DUTY, AND DEMONSTRATING
THE NECESSITY, EXCELLENCY, USEFULNESS,
NATURES, KINDS, AND REQUISITES

OF DIVINE MEDITATION.

BY NATHANAEL RANEW,

SOMETIME MINIster of felsteD IN ESSEX A. D. 1670

LONDON:

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY,
Instituted 1799.

SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY, 56, PATERNOSTER ROW,
AND 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD;

AND BY THE BOOKsellers.

MDCCCXXXIX.

In this edition the obsolete words are exchanged for others of the same meaning. A few sentences containing overstrained illustrations are omitted.

TO THE

• RIGHT HONOURABLE AND MOST PIOUS LADY,

MARY COUNTESS OF WARWICK.

MADAM,

THIS ensuing discourse, first making its humble address in private, and having so favourable a reception, craves leave in the publication to make this second application.

The first occasion of this undertaking was from observation made of your exemplary and eminent practice of, and experienced sweetness felt in the breathings of your soul up this hill of holy meditation; it being so frequently, and with such complacency discoursed by you.

After a review made of the whole, I have both altered and added several things, which I most earnestly pray may (together with those

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