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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.
SECT. V.
1V. LAY a Law upon your senses. Beg of God to sanctify them; as they are all Pensioners to Satan by nature and complo•ment, so bring them all into Covenant with God, that ye may be sanctified in soul, and body, and spirit. Give them to him, use them for him. Is is said, Prov. 17.24. The fools eyes are in the ends of the Earth. Any new face that comes in, any antic garb, any noise about, every head that moves, every leaf that stirs, commands the eyes and heart of a fool, but that while, Prov. 4.25. Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thine eye-lids look straight before thee. Compose thy eyes in that devout and heavenly posture, that whatever falls out, thou mayest hoc agere, keep to thy business without wavering. For the heart is used to walk after the eye, Job 31.7. To the undoing of the soul.
1V. LAY a Law upon your senses. Beg of God to sanctifie them; as they are all Pensioners to Satan by nature and complo•ment, so bring them all into Covenant with God, that ye may be sanctified in soul, and body, and spirit. Give them to him, use them for him. Is is said, Prov. 17.24. The fools eyes are in the ends of the Earth. Any new face that comes in, any antick garb, any noise about, every head that moves, every leaf that stirs, commands the eyes and heart of a fool, but that while, Prov. 4.25. Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thine eye-lids look straight before thee. Compose thy eyes in that devout and heavenly posture, that whatever falls out, thou mayest hoc agere, keep to thy business without wavering. For the heart is used to walk after the eye,