A25467:1337
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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7 And most of them are violently haunted with blasphemous injections, at which they tremble, and yet cannot keep them out of their mind, either they are tempted and haunted to doubt of the Scripture or Christianity, or the life to come, or to think some ill of God; And ofttimes they are strangely urged, as by something in them, to speak some Blasphemous word of God, or to renounce him, and they tremble at the suggestion, and yet it still followeth them, and some poor souls yield to it, and say some bad word against God, and then as soon as it is spoken, somewhat within them saith, now thy damnation is sealed, thou hast sinned against the Holy Ghost, there is no hope.
8 When it is far gone they are tempted to lay some law upon themselves, never to speak more, or not to eat, and some of them have famished themselves to death.
9 And when its far gone they oft think that they have apparitions and this and that likeness appeareth to them, especially lights in the night about their beds: and sometimes they are confident that they hear voices and feel something touch or hurt them.