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An antidote against distractions, or, An endeavour to serve the church, in the daily…An antidote against distractions, or, An indeavour to serve the church, in the daily…
An antidote against distractions, or, An endeavour to serve the church, in the daily case of wanderings in the worship of God by Richard Steele M.A. and minister of the Gospel.An antidote against distractions, or, An indeavour to serve the church, in the daily case of wandrings in the worship of God by Richard Steele M.A. and minister of the Gospel.
London: printed for Elizabeth Calvert, 1667
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. The Holiness of God is another Reason, who is so sacred, that an unholy Thought is abomination to him; most especially in his holy Service. Who can by an eye of Faith behold the Lord sitting ⟨p. 37⟩on a throne high and lifted up, and his train filling the Temple, And the Seraphims crying one to another, and saying, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts, Isa. 6.1, 2. *and suffer his heart to be ravished away with transitory toys in such a Sacred presence? Are the Seraphims amazed at his holiness, and we untransported? Their thoughts are continually terminated upon him, And should ours be always flinching from him? The Holy Lord of Hosts will not brook it. If you will not sanctify him, he will sanctify himself. If you that worship him, will not bear witness by your serious attendance to his Holiness, He must bear witness to it by his Judgements on You: which indeed are not always visible, but ever certain; not a man in the Congregation, but the Holy God is Sanctified by him, or upon him. Little do we know, what invisible dreadful effects there are of this, daily in our Congregations. And if our dear Redeemer did not stand as a screen between us and his wrath, the best of us would quickly feel the effects of his Displeasure.
2. The Holiness of God is another Reason, who is so sacred, that an unholy Thought is abomination to him; most especially in his holy Service. Who can by an eye of Faith behold the Lord sitting ⟨p. 37⟩on a throne high and lifted up, and his train filling the Temple, And the Seraphinis crying one to another, and saying, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts, Isa. 6.1, 2. *and suffer his heart to be ravisht away with transitory toyes in such a Sacred presence? Are the Seraphims amazed at his holiness, and we untransported? Their thoughts are continually terminated upon him, And should ours be allwayes flinching from him? The Holy Lord of Hosts will not brook it. If you will not sanctifie him, he will sanctifie himself. If you that worship him, will not bear witness by your serious attendance to his Holiness, He must bear witness to it by his Judgements on You: which indeed are not allwayes visible, but ever certain; not a man in the Congregation, but the Holy God is Sanctified by him, or upon him. Little do we know, what invisible dreadfull effects there are of this, daily in our Congregations. And if our dear Redeemer did not stand as a skreen between us and his wrath, the best of us would quickly feel the effects of his Displeasure.