Section 4
pp. 8–117 passages
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 ⟨p. 9⟩his digressions; how much more necessary is it to observe your own?
1. It is a wandring, As the remisness of our Devotion shoots short, so Distraction shoots awry. 'Tis said,