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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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Their very natural temper is a strong disease, of troubling sorrow, fear and displeasedness. They that are not melancholy, are yet of so Childish, and sick, and impatient a temper, that one thing or other is still either discontenting, grieving or affrighting them. They are like an Aspen leaf, still shaking with the least motion of the air: The wisest and most patient man cannot please and justify such a one, a word, yea or a look offendeth them, every sad story or news or noise affrighteth them, and as children must have all that they cry for before they will be quiet, so is it with too many such. The case is very sad to those about them, but much more to themselves. To dwell with the sick in the house of mourning, is less uncomfortable. B•t yet while reason is not overthrown the case is not remediless nor wholly excusable.
Their very natural temper is a strong disease, of troubling sorrow, fear and displeasedness. They that are not melancholly, are yet of so Childish, and sick, and impatient a temper, that one thing or other is still either discontenting, grieving or affrighting them. They are like an Aspen leaf, still shaking with the least motion of the air: The wisest and most patient man cannot please and justifie such a one, a word, yea or a look offendeth them, every sad story or news or noise affrighteth them, and as children must have all that they cry for before they will be quiet, so is it with too many such. The case is very sad to those about them, but much more to themselves. To dwell with the sick in the house of mourning, is less uncomfortable. B•t yet while reason is not overthrown the case is not remediless nor wholly excusable.
3. But when the Brain and Imagination is Crazed and Reason partly overthrown by the Disease called Melancholy, this maketh the cure yet more difficult, for commonly it is the foresaid Persons, whose natural temper is timorous and passionate and apt to discontent and grief, who fall into Crazedness and Melancholy: And the conjunction of both, the Natural Temper and the Disease do increase the misery.