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

And many of them turn Heretics and take up errors in Religion, believing verily that God believed them, and set such things upon their minds: And some of them that were long troubled, get quietness and joy by such changes of their opinions, thinking that now they are in Gods way, which they were out of all this while, and therefore it was that they had no comfort: Of these I have known divers persons comforted, that have fallen into the clean contrary opinions, some have turned Papists and superstitious, and some have run too far from Papists, and some have had comfort by turning Anabaptists, some Antinomians, some contrarily called Arminians, some Perfectionists, some Quakers, and some have turned from Christianity it self to Infidelity, and denied the life to come, and have lived in licentious uncleanness. But these melancholy Heretics and Apostates, usually by this cast of their sadness, and are not the sort that I have now to deal with.

And many of them turn Hereticks and take up errours in Religion, believing verily that God believed them, and set such things upon their minds: And some of them that were long troubled, get quietness and joy by such changes of their opinions, thinking that now they are in Gods way, which they were out of all this while, and therefore it was that they had no comfort: Of these I have known divers persons comforted, that have fallen into the clean contrary opinions, some have turned Papists and superstitious, and some have run too far from Papists, and some have had comfort by turning Anabaptists, some Antinomians, some contrarily called Arminians, some Perfectionists, some Quakers, and some have turned from Christianity it self to Infidelity, and denied the life to come, and have lived in licentious uncleanness. But these melancholly Hereticks and Apostates, usually by this cast of their sadness, and are not the sort that I have now to deal with.

6 But the sadder better sort, feeling this talk and stir within them, are oft apt to be confident that they are possessed by the devil, or at least bewitched, of which I will say more anon.

6 But the sadder better sort, feeling this talk and stir within them, are oft apt to be confident that they are possessed by the devil, or at least bewitcht, of which I will say more anon.