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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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2. If you convince them that they have some evidences of sincerity, and that their fears are causeless and injurious to themselves and unto God, and they have nothing to say against it, yet either it takes of none of their trouble, or else it returneth the next day: for the cause remaineth in their bodily Disease, quiet them an hundred times, and their sears and hundred times return.
3. Their misery is, that what they think, they cannot choose but think: You may almost as well persuade a man not to shake in an Ague, or not to feel when he is pained, as persuade them to cast away their self-troubling thoughts, or not to think all the enormous confounding thoughts as they do, they cannot get them out of their heads night or day: tell them that they must forbear long musing, which disturb them, and they cannot: tell them that they must cast out false imaginations out of their minds, when Satan casts them in, and must turn their thoughts to something else, and they cannot do it: Their thoughts, and troubles, and fears are gone out of their power, and the more, by how much the more, melancholy and crazed they are.
3. Their misery is, that what they think, they cannot choose but think: You may almost as well perswade a man not to shake in an Ague, or not to feel when he is pained, as perswade them to cast away their self-troubling thoughts, or not to think all the enormous confounding thoughts as they do, they cannot get them out of their heads night or day: tell them that they must forbear long musing, which disturb them, and they cannot: tell them that they must cast out false imaginations out of their minds, when Satan casts them in, and must turn their thoughts to something else, and they cannot do it: Their thoughts, and troubles, and fears are gone out of their power, and the more, by how much the more, melancholly and crased they are.