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A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Seventhly, Vain distracting Thoughts rob us of the Comfort of an Ordinance. A gracious Soul oft meets with God in the Sanctuary, and can say as Cant. 3.4. I found him whom my Soul loveth. He is like Jonathan, who having tasted the Honey on the Rod, his Eyes were enlightened. But Vain Thoughts hinder the Comfort of an Ordinance, as a black Cloud hides the warm comfortable Beams of the Sun from us. Will God speak Peace to us when our Minds are wandering, and our Thoughts are travelling to the Ends of the Earth, Prov. 17.24? If ever you would hear the Word with Attention, do as Abraham, he drove away the Fowls from the Sacrifice, Gen. 15.11. So when we find these Excursions and sinful Wanderings in hearing, labour to drive away the Fowls; get rid of these vain Thoughts; they are Vagrants, and we must not give them Entertainment.
Seventhly, Vain distracting Thoughts rob us of the Comfort of an Ordinance. A gracious Soul oft meets with God in the Sanctuary, and can say as Cant. 3.4. I found him whom my Soul loveth. He is like Ionathan, who having tasted the Hony on the Rod, his Eyes were enlightned. But Vain Thoughts hinder the Comfort of an Ordinance, as a black Cloud hides the warm comfortable Beams of the Sun from us. Will God speak Peace to us when our Minds are wandring, and our Thoughts are travelling to the Ends of the Earth, Prov. 17.24? If ever you would hear the Word with Attention, do as Abraham, he drove away the Fowls from the Sacrifice, Gen. 15.11. So when we find these Excursions and sinful Wanderings in hearing, labour to drive away the Fowls; get rid of these vain Thoughts; they are Vagrants, and we must not give them Entertainment.