A61386:121
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.
SECT. I.
1BUT because there is no Duty so clear, that our sinful hearts will embrace, if any show of contradiction can be produced; I shall wipe away all Possible Objections against this Duty, which is the Fifth general Head to be handled.
1BUT because there is no Duty so clear, that our sinfull hearts will embrace, if any shew of contradiction can be produced; I shall wipe away all Possible Objections against this Duty, which is the Fifth general Head to be handled.
- 1§. 1. Its impossibility.
1It is impossible thus to Attend on God without distractions. Such is the Variety of objects, such the imbecility of our Nature, such the weakness of our Graces, such the suddenness and swiftness of a thought, that none but Angels can do this. You press impossibles, it can never be.
1It is impossible thus to Attend on God without distractions. Such is the Variety of objects, such the imbecillity of our Nature, such the weakness of our Graces, such the suddenness and swiftness of a thought, that none but Angels can do this. You press impossibles, it can never be.