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The first part of The cases of conscience Wherein specially, three main questions concerning…The first part of The cases of conscience Wherein specially, three maine questions concerning…
The first part of The cases of conscience Wherein specially, three main questions concerning man, simply considered in himself, are propounded and resolved, according to the word of God. Taught and delivered, by M. William Perkins in his Holy-day lectures, by himself revised before his death, and now published for the benefit of the Church.The first part of The cases of conscience Wherein specially, three maine questions concerning man, simply considered in himselfe, are propounded and resolued, according to the word of God. Taught and deliuered, by M. William Perkins in his Holy-day lectures, by himselfe revised before his death, and now published for the benefit of the Church.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1604Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1604
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The Effects of this Temptation are many▪ and very strange. For outwardly it works upon the body, as it were a burning ague, & it causeth the entrails to rise, the liver to roll in the body: & it sets a great heat in the bones, & consumes the flesh, more then any sickness can do. And that it is so, as I say, beside experience, it is clear in the word of God. David in this distress affirmeth, that his eyes were eaten as it were with worms, and sunk into his head Psal. 6. 7. that his moisture became as the drought in summer. Psal. 32. 4. and Job says, that his skin was black upon 1him, his bones were burnt with heat: yea that by means of this distress he was now full of wrinkles, 2and his leanness did rise upon him. It is a principle which Physicians do hold, that The mind follows the temperature of the body, and is ⟨p. 98⟩affected according to the good or evil constitution thereof: which though it be true, yet withal it is as manifest on the other side, that the body doth often follow the state and condition of the mind. For a distressed heart, must of necessity, make a fainting and a languishing body.
The Effects of this Temptation are many▪ and very strange. For outwardly it works vpon the bodie, as it were a burning ague, & it causeth the entralls to rise, the liuer to rowle in the bodie: & it sets a great heat in the bones, & consumes the flesh, more then any sicknes can doe. And that it is so, as I say, beside experience, it is cleare in the word of God. Dauid in this distresse affirmeth, that his eyes were eaten as it were with wormes, and sunke into his head Psal. 6. 7. that his moisture became as the drought in sommer. Psal. 32. 4. and Iob saies, that his skinne was blacke vpon