A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

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.

3. But when the Brain and Imagination is Crazed and Reason partly overthrown by the Disease called Melancholly, this maketh the cure yet more difficult, for commonly it is the foresaid Persons, whose natural temper is timerous and passionate and apt to discontent and grief, who fall ito Crazedness and Melancholly: And the conjunction of both, the Natural Temp•r and the Disease do increase the misery.

The sig•s of such diseasing Melancholy, I have often elsewhere described. As,

The sig•s of such diseasing Melancholly, I have often elsewhere described. As,

1. The trouble and disquiet of the mind doth then become a settled habit, they can see nothing but matter of fear and trouble: all that they hear or do doth feed it, danger is still before their eyes, all that they read and hear makes against them, they can delight in nothing, fearful dreams trouble them when they sleep, and distracted thoughts do keep them long waking, it offends them to see another laugh or be merry, they think that every Beggars case is happier then theirs, they will hardly believe that any one else is in their case, when some two or three in a week, or a day, come to me in the same case, so like that you would think it were the same persons case which they all express, they have no pleasure in Relations, Friends, Estate or any thing, they think that God hath forsaken them, and that the day of Grace is past, and that there is no more hope: they say they cannot pray, but howl and groan and God will not hear them; they will not believe that they have any sincerity and grace; they say they cannot repent, they cannot believe, but that their hearts are utterly hardened: usually they are afraid lest they have committed the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost; In a word fears and troubles and almost despair are the constant temper of their minds.