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…

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 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 alwaies hard to sin.

4. The more grace, the more affections to things above, Col. 3.2. Set your affections on things above, and where there is much affection, there is little distraction. A heavenly mind is all in all, Isa. 26.8, 9. ⟨p. 197⟩When the desire of the soul is to the remembrance of God• when with thy soul thou hast desired him in the night, then with thy spirit within thee, thou wilt seek him early