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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.
SECT. IV.
1THE first Head will be to describe a Distraction. A Distraction is a secret wandering of the Heart from God, in some Duty in hand.
1THE first Head will be to describe a Distraction. A Distraction is a secret wandring of the Heart from God, in some Duty in hand.
- 1§ 4 The first general Head. viz. The description of Distractions.
1. It is a wandering, As the remissness of our Devotion shoots short, so Distraction shoots awry. 'Tis said, Prov. 27.8. As a bird that wandereth from his nest, so is a man from his place. *Its commonly known, the ready way to destroy the young in the shell, is discontinuance of heat; and to wander from our heavenly work, produces the dead off-spring of unprofitable Duties. It would be almost as easy to trace and follow the Bird in her vagaries, as the volatile and intricate imaginations of the heart ::It is a digression: you that are curious to observe the Minister in