A61386:42
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.
1The words of the Text present us with a Design, that Believers as often aim at, and yet miss, as any in the World; and which is so excellent a rare attainment, that the Holy Ghost even makes two words on purpose to express it by, no where else found in the ⟨p. 5⟩New-Testament; (a)To Attend on the Lord without Distraction. Hierome confesseth that the Latin can hardly express the Emphasis of the Greek in this clause, and that thereupon it was wholly omitted in the Latin books. In the words we must consider, 1. The Matter What, [Attend upon the Lord.] 2. The Manner how, [Without Distraction.]
1THe words of the Text present us with a Design, that Believers as often aim at, and yet miss, as any in the World; and which is so excellent a rare attainment, that the Holy Ghost even makes two words on purpose to express it by, no where else found in the ⟨p. 5⟩New-Testament; (a)To Attend on the Lord without Distraction. Hierome confesseth that the Latine can hardly express the Emphasis of the Greek in this clause, and that thereupon it was wholly omitted in the Latine books. In the words we must consider, 1. The Matter What, [Attend upon the Lord.] 2. The Manner how, [Without Distraction.]
- 1The Explication of the Text.
- (a)Quod inteniè facit servire Domino sine ullâ distraction. Hieron. lib. 1. contr. Jo. vin. By comparing whereof with the present vulgar you may easily see the Vulgar was none of Hieromes. For thus the Vulgar, Quod facultatem praebeat sine impedimento Dominum obsecrandi, miswritten for observandi, as Beza thinks• But Erasmus says the oldest Translation was, Domino observiendi, after turned into observandi and by some obsecrandi.