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A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved
A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved by sundry ministers in October, 1682.
London: printed by J.A. for John Dunton, 1683
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
II. When Sorrow swalloweth up the Sinner, it is overmuch, and to be restrained: As,
1. The Passions of Grief and Trouble of mind do oft overthrow the sober and sound use of Reason; so that a mans Judgment is corrupted and perverted by it, and is not in that case to be trusted: As a man in raging Anger, so one in fear or great trouble of mind, thinks not of things as they are, but as his Passion represents them, about God and Religion, and about his own Soul, and his Actions, or about his Friends or Enemies, his Judgment is perverted, and usually false; and like an inflamed Eye, thinks all things of the colour which is like it self. When it perverteth Reason, it is overmuch.
1. The Passions of Grief and Trouble of mind do oft overthrow the sober and sound use of Reason; so that a mans Judgment is corrupted and perverted by it, and is not in that case to be trusted: As a man in raging Anger, so one in fear or great trouble of mind, thinks not of things as they are, but as his Passion represents them, about God and Religion, and about his own Soul, and his Actions, or about his Friends or Enemies, his Judgment is perverted, and usually false; and like an enflamed Eye, thinks all things of the colour which is like it self. When it perverteth Reason, it is overmuch.
2. Overmuch Sorrow disableth a man to govern his Thoughts; and ungoverned Thoughts must needs be both sinful, and very troublesome; Grief carrieth them away as in a Torrent: you may almost as easily keep the Leaves of Trees in quietness and order in a blustering Wind, as the Thoughts of one in troubling Passions. If Reason would stop them from perplexing Subjects, or turn them to better and sweeter things, it cannot do it; it hath no power against the stream of troubling Passions.