A61386:74
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. Some are sudden. As the Church, Cant. 6.12. Or ever I was aware, my Soul made me like the Chariots of Aminadab; and happy is that Soul, that is so sweetly and suddenly carried after Jesus Christ. So sometimes *our treacherous Soul, ere we know or are aware of it, makes us like those hasty Chariots; which misery comes about through want of watchfulness, which like a Porter should keep the door, and turn all stragglers away: A thought is a sudden motion, and by it we may quickly step into Heaven or Hell; Now these Thoughts do steal in so suddenly, that we fall to muse how they came in, by what door they entered, and so are entangled in more Distractions by tracing the former, and commit new Errors by discovering the old.
1. Some are sudden. As the Church, Cant. 6.12. Or ever I was aware, my Soul made me like the Chariots of Aminadab; and happy is that Soul, that is so sweetly and suddenly carried after Iesus Christ. So sometimes *our treacherous Soul, ere we know or are aware of it, makes us like those hasty Chariots; which misery comes about through want of watchfulness, which like a Porter should keep the door, and turn all straglers away: A thought is a sudden motion, and by it we may quickly step into Heaven or Hell; Now these Thoughts do steal in so suddenly, that we fall to muse how they came in, by what door they entred, and so are intangled in more Distractions by tracing the former, and commit new Errors by discovering the old.
- *These are cogitationes onerosae quibus resistere vult & tamen non potest, sed velit nolit, irruit in oculos mentis massarum pestilentia & perstrepunt ranae in penetralibus cordis ejus. Bern. lib. de Consc. c. 5.