A61386:141
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.
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.
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 wandring 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 slipt off her Chariot wheels, and our sight of God is lost.
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12. And yet some watchful Christians (as we observed before) have got a good riddance of them, to accuse others is a ⟨p. 59⟩poor excuse to you. As their humility teaches them to complain of the worst, so your charity should cause you to think the best: no doubt they that are sick of them, do by degrees get Physic against them, and grow better.