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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.
That condition should be chosen by all, 1that's best for their souls. Your outward condition must serve your inward condition; and this life must be subservient to another life. If single-life do every way better qualify you, to serve the Lord, and save your souls, this is the best life for you; and if Marriage be better for your souls, no state is better.
That condition should be chosen by all, 1that's best for their souls. Your outward condition must serve your inward condition; and this life must be subservient to another life. If single-life do every way better qualifie you, to serve the Lord, and save your souls, this is the best life for you; and if Marriage be better for your souls, no state is better.
- 1An Observation.
For if the soul prosper, All prospers; and if tha• miscarry, All's lost. If to be a Prince were dangerous for the soul, 'twere better to be a Beggar: If a poor state do enrich the soul, it is the best estate.
This needs not to be proved unto Christians, that will be granted by Heathens? some of whom have so powerfully discoursed ⟨p. 4⟩of the immortality and excellency of the soul, that their Auditors have posted to death by self-destruction, for the happy state thereof. If Pagans would choose to dye, as a condition best for the soul, well may we choose that condition of life, which best serves the soul; lest those Acts which were unable to justify them, prove able to condemn us with a witness.