A61386:51
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.
2. It is secret, in the Heart. And this contracts the guilt and nature of Hypocrisy upon a Distraction; for we have a short and clear description of hypocrisy, which agrees too well with distractions. Matth, 15.7, 8. This People draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me. To have a bended knee, a craving eye, are choice Expressions of Duty: but without the Impressions and attendance of the heart, *are double iniquity and flat hypocrisy. How empty would our Congregations be sometimes, if no more bodies were present, than there are souls: And what abundance of sorry service hath our God, that no body sees?
2. It is secret, in the Heart. And this contracts the guilt and nature of Hypocrisie upon a Distraction; for we have a short and clear description of hypocrisie, which agrees too well with distractions. Matth, 15.7, 8. This People draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me. To have a bended knee, a craving eye, are choice Expressions of Duty: but without the Impressions and attendance of the heart, *are double iniquity and flat hypocrisie. How empty would our Congregations be sometimes, if no more bodies were present, than there are souls: And what abundance of sorry service hath our God, that no body sees?
- *In the Sacrifices of the Law, the Inwards still were offered to God, the skin was for the Priest.
Yet how unknown soever these triflings of the mind are to others, or to our selves, yet are they most palpable to the Lord, who sets our most secret sins in the clearest light of his Countenance;