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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.
How doth the *active Fancy in our sleep sometimes light upon some sorry thoughts we had in the day, and take them by the end, and spin them out into a very sinful Dream? and this, Casuists say, we are responsible for though it seem involuntary: because we administered matter for it, and remotely promoted it: so we shall be found guilty before God, even of our unwilling wandering in Gods service, because we laid up for them before. If we brew for them, Satan will be sure to broach them.
How doth the *active Fancy in our sleep sometimes light upon some sorry thoughts we had in the day, and take them by the end, and spin them out into a very sinfull Dream? and this, Casuists say, we are responsible for though it seem involuntary: because we administred matter for it, and remotely promoted it: so we shall be found guilty before God, even of our unwilling wandring in Gods service, because we laid up for them before. If we brew for them, Satan will be sure to broach them.
- *Hence cogitatio à cogendo, quia voluntas cogit memoriam ut proferat materiam, cogit etiam intellectum ad formandum, Bern. Ep. de ult. Solit.Hence cogitatio à cogendo, quia voluntas cogit memoriam ut proferat materiam, cogit etiam intellectum ad formandum, Bern. Ep. de vlt. Solit.
5. These idle thoughts, at other times, provoke God to give us up to our own inventions. As that dreadful word, Hos. 4.17. Ephraim is joined to Idols, let him alone. Seeing he will be married to them, and forsake me, let him take them. If a man be resolved upon Idols or any other sin, God will not hinder him. So when he finds the heart joined, taken up, and pleased with vain thoughts; Good motions knock and wait, but are not accepted or heeded; come and knock again with double earnestness, How long shall vain thoughts lodge within thee? but are not regarded, sin and the heart are making merry within; come and try once