The popular conception of meditation has been so badly misshapen by mysticism, New Age influence and Eastern religious ideas that some otherwise sound Christians recoil from any mention of it as a spiritual exercise. Yet nothing is more vital or more beneficial for understanding the truth, and David W. Saxton sets out to recover the practice the Puritans actually meant by the word.

Working from the Puritan writers themselves, Saxton treats what biblical meditation is, why Scripture commands it, what hinders it, and how to go about it in practice - including the plain mechanics of time, place and subject matter. The result is both a historical study and a manual. For readers who have been told to meditate on Scripture and never shown how.