What we see and hear
And then only, when we lie down in the dust, shall we be delivered from those wandering thoughts which are occasioned by what we see and hear among those by whom we are now surrounded. To avoid these we must go out of the world (1 Corinthians 5:10). For as long as we remain in it, as long as there are men and women round about us, and we have eyes to see and ears to hear, the things which we daily see and hear will certainly affect our mind, and will more or less break in upon and interrupt our preceding thoughts.
1771 text
5. And then only, when we lie down in the dust, shall we be delivered from those wandering thoughts which are occasioned by what we see and hear, among those by whom we are now surrounded. To avoid these we must go out of the world. For as long as we remain therein, as long as there are men and women round about us, and we have eyes to see and ears to hear, the things which we daily see and hear, will certainly affect our mind, and will more or less, break in upon and interrupt our preceding thoughts.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 41 in the 1771 Works. 2 Corinthians 10:4-5.
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