Pleasure or pain intrudes
Once more: let us fix our attention as studiously as we are able on any subject, yet let either pleasure or pain arise, especially if it is intense, and it will demand our immediate attention and attach our thought to itself. It will interrupt the steadiest contemplation and divert the mind from its favorite subject.
1771 text
7. *Once more. Let us fix our attention as studiously as we are able on any subject, yet let either pleasure or pain arise, especially if it be intense, and it will demand our immediate attention, and attach our thought to itself. It will interrupt the steadiest contemplation, and divert the mind from its favourite subject.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 41 in the 1771 Works. 2 Corinthians 10:4-5.
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