A61386:126
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.
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.
- 1Object. 1.
1Though this objection hath been prevented before, yet seeing it recurs again, I answer,
- 1Answ. 1.
1. Perfection herein is impossible in this life: not but that a prayer or other Ordinance may be attended with that intenseness, ⟨p. 51⟩as to exclude every wandering thought that would step in; but to be perfectly free in every Duty from them, is rather to be wished, than hoped for in this life. That Angelical perfection is Reserved for Heaven, This Evangelical perfection may be here attained, which is the prevalence of grace against them; and not only a will but a watch and an endeavour to be utterly rid of them.