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…

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^*. He that hath his usual conversation in Heaven, will not easily have his heart from thence in prayer. It's a clear case, where the treasure is, there will the heart be also. A mind above, will no so easily have thoughts below. Where is that man that can say, Psal. 119.20. My soul breaketh for the longing it hath to thy Judgements at all times. He whose heart breaks for the presence of God, will break his heart, when he slips from him: And he that cries, O when shall I come and appear before God? will not privately wish, when shall I have done, and take leave of him?

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^*. He that hath his usual conversation in Heaven, will not easily have his heart from thence in prayer. It's a clear case, where the treasure is, there will the heart be also. A mind above, will no so easily have thoughts below. Where is that man that can say,