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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.
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?
- *Psal. 48.9 We have thought of thy loving kindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple. These are the thoughts of such as see by the eye of faith.
3. The more grace, the tenderer will be your conscience; and so sooner smart, and more oppose these enormities; the tender eye cannot bear, what the brawny hand can. A distraction in a duty more troubles a tender conscience, than the total omission of it doth another. A little sin, is• no little sin, where there is a great deal of grace. O keep your conscience tender, with all the ca•e and skill you can. A little wedge makes way for a greater, and a little thief can let a greater in. Blessed is the man that feareth alway, and he that hath a soft heart, is always hard to sin.
3. The more grace, the tenderer will be your conscience; and so sooner smart, and more oppose these enormities; the tender eye cannot bear, what the brawny hand can. A distraction in a duty more troubles a tender conscience, than the total omission of it doth another. A little sin, is• no little sin, where there is a great deal of grace. O keep your conscience tender, with all the cae and skill you can. A little wedge makes way for a greater, and a little thief can let a greater in. Blessed is the man that feareth alway, and he that hath a soft heart, is alwaies hard to sin.