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title: 'Ashbel Green on Sabbath Meditation'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-06-23
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-ashbel-green-on-sabbath-meditation
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# Ashbel Green on Sabbath Meditation

“*Meditation*. — This is a duty too little practised, or thought of, by Christians generally. The Psalmist says — ‘My meditation of thee shall be sweet, I will be glad in the Lord.’ Meditation, intermingled with devout ejaculations and aspirations of soul, is exemplified in many of the Psalms, and should form a part of a Christian’s exercises on every Lord’s day. The subjects of meditation are the works, the government, and the providence of God, his providence in relation to our own lot in life particularly, and more than all, the glorious plan of redemption, as a whole, and in its various parts and aspects.” — [**Ashbel Green**](/authors/ashbel-green), *Lectures on the Shorter Catechism* (1841), pp. 134-135