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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.
1. Many of our Distractions may justly be fathered on the Devil. He is a spiritual substance, and is most properly conversant in spiritual sins; He is completely skilled in all thoughts whatsoever, and therefore what he imparts here, is of his own. Zech. 3.1. The High-Priest Joshua could not be at his Prayers for the Israel of God, but as Christ the Angel of the Covenant was on one hand, Satan was standing on the other, and he was got at the *readier hand the right hand, the hand of action, that he might hinder him more ⟨p. 13⟩dextrously in his Devotion. When we are most serious before the Angel, The Devil is whispering at our Elbow, and who can be dull and watchless, when God is on one hand, and Satan on the other?
1. Many of our Distractions may justly be fathered on the Devil. He is a spiritual substance, and is most properly conversant in spiritual sins; He is compleatly skild in all thoughts whatsoever, and therefore what he imparts here, is of his own. Zech. 3.1. The High-Priest Joshua could not be at his Prayers for the Israel of God, but as Christ the Angel of the Covenant was on one hand, Satan was standing on the other, and he was got at the *readier hand the right hand, the hand of action, that he might hinder him more ⟨p. 13⟩dextrously in his Devotion. When we are most serious before the Angel, The Devil is whispering at our Elbow, and who can be dull and watchless, when God is on one hand, and Satan on the other?
- *Eccles. 10.2. A wise mans heart is at his right hand. i. e. His heart is ready and prepared to every good work. Annot. in loc.