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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.
1. The more sanctifying grace you have, the more mortified will your heart be unto the world, and the flesh, the great disturbers of divine service. The fairest Landscape showed to a dead man, moves him not at all. A heart dead to the world, is not removed from God with every trifle of the world, 2 Cor. 4.18. While we look not at all things that are seen, but at things that are not seen. Things visible are not worth looking at, especially when things invisible are in place. What's a temporal house, or land, or children to me, that see, and am contracting for an eternal and glorious house and state? Alas! what taste it there in these rotten things?
1. The more sanctifying grace you have, the more mortified will your heart be unto the world, and the flesh, the great disturbers of divine service. The fairest Landskip shewed to a dead man, moves him not at all. A heart dead to the world, is not removed from God with every trifle of the world, 2 Cor. 4.18. While we look not at all things that are seen, but at things that are not seen. Things visible are not worth looking at, especially when things invisible are in place. What's a temporal house, or land, or children to me, that see, and am contracting for an eternal and glorious house and state? Alas! what tast it there in these rotten things?
2. The more grace, the clearer will be ⟨p. 196⟩your eye of faith, to behold the Majesty of God *with whom you have to do, and the reality of the things about which you treat; for faith is the evidence of things not seen, and makes the soul as real as the body, and Heaven as real as the world, and the day of Judgement as real as the present day: And how undistractedly would a man pray, that saw the world on a flame, or himself dropping into another world?