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The Whole Treatise of the Cases of Conscience
The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three books: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundry places, and the other two annexed. Taught and delivered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his own briefs, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelor of Divinity. Whereunto is adjoined a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolved; another of the principal texts of Scripture which are either explained, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.The whole treatise of the cases of conscience distinguished into three bookes: the first whereof is revised and corrected in sundrie places, and the other two annexed. Taught and deliuered by M. W. Perkins in his holy-day lectures, carefully examined by his owne briefes, and now published together for the common good, by T. Pickering Bachelour of Diuinitie. Whereunto is adioyned a twofold table: one of the heads and number of the questions propounded and resolued; another of the principall texts of Scripture vvhich are either explaned, or vindicated from corrupt interpretation.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1606Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1606
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Sect. 3.
The Effects of this Temptation are many, 1and very strange. For outwardly it works a change and alteration in the body, as it were a burning ague, and it causeth the entrails to rise, the liver to roll in the body, and it sets a great heat in the bones, and 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 him, his bones were burnt with 2heat: yea that by means of this distress he was now full of wrinkles, and his leanness did rise 3upon him. It is a principle which Physicians do hold, that The mind follows the temperature of the body, and is 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 ⟨p. 110⟩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, 1