A61386:136
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. III.
Object. 3. The Commonness of these Distractions;1 No man but is full of them, All serious Christians complain of them. What is so ordinary cannot be very evil, these vanities that every one hath, I cannot expect to be without, and therefore must be content.
Object. 3. THe Commonness of these Distractions;1 No man but is full of them, All serious Christians complain of them. What is so ordinary cannot be very evil, these vanities that every one hath, I cannot expect to be without, and therefore must be content.
- 1§. 3. Their Commonness.
1Answ. 1. This must be answered with Grief. Every man is full of them, and every Good man is sick with them. If every mans body were gone after his soul, this would sometimes be an empty Congregation. Every solemn look hath not a serious heart, and there are but few that make a business of Prayer; And this is a lamentable thing, that we can hold a discourse with man, or crave a kindness, or drive a bargain without a wandering thought: till our face be set towards God, and that we begin a duty of Worship, and then or ever we are aware, our Soul is slipped off her Chariot wheels, and our sight of God is lost.