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Attending upon God without Distraction

by Nathaniel Vincent

Publication

Print status
Out of stock

The Physical Book

Binding
Paperback
Total pages
224 pages
ISBN-13
9798886860238

Reference

Notes
A Puritan treatise on overcoming the distractions that hinder wholehearted service to God, arranged in four parts moving from the duty to attend upon God, through His lordship, freedom from distraction, and finally cases of conscience and practical remedies.
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Contents

  • Biographical Introduction
  • The Epistle Dedicatory
  • To the Reader
  • Part 1: Everyone Ought to Attend upon God
    • 1. What Attending upon God Is
    • 2. What Attending upon God Implies
    • 3. Various Kinds of Attending upon God
    • 4. Why We Ought to Attend upon God
    • 5. Reproofs for Those Who Reject Attending upon God
    • 6. Exhortations for Those Who Reject Attending upon God
    • 7. Directions and Consolations for Attending upon God
  • Part 2: Attending upon God Means We Should Look upon Him as Lord and Serve Him
    • 8. How God Is the Lord
    • 9. How God's Lordship Should Impact Our Attending upon Him
    • 10. Reproofs and Advice for Those Who Don't Attend upon God as Lord
  • Part 3: Attending upon God Should Be without Distraction
    • 11. How the Heart Is Distracted
    • 12. How to Attend upon God without Distraction
    • 13. The Evils of Distractions and Benefits of Avoiding Them
  • Part 4: Cases of Conscience and Applications of Attending upon God without Distractions
    • 14. Cases of Conscience about Distractions
    • 15. Cautions and Expostulations about Distractions
    • 16. Directions to Remedies against Distractions
    • 17. Advice for Avoiding Distractions in Religious Duties
    • 18. Terrors of Distractions and Encouragements to Believers