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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
We deny not but Satan hath a great hand in the Case of such Melancholy persons; for,
1. His Temptations caused the Sin which God corrects them for.
2. His Execution usually is a Cause of the Distemper of the Body.
3. And as a Tempter, he is the Cause of the sinful and •••ublesom Thoughts, and Doubts, and Fears, and Passions which the […] holy causeth. The Devil cannot do what he will with us, but wh•• […] •ive him advantage to do. He cannot break open our doors, but […] enter if we leave them open. He can easily tempt a heavy flegmatick Body to sloth, a weak and choleric person to anger, a strong and sanguine man to Lust, and one of a strong Appetite to Gluttony, or to Drunkenness, and vain sportful Youth to idle Plays, and gaming, and Voluptuousness, when to others such Temptations would have small strength: And so if he can cast you into Melancholy, he can easily tempt you to overmuch Sorrow and Fear, and to distracting Doubts and Thoughts, and to murmur against God, and to despair, and still think that you are undone, undone; and even to blasphemous thoughts of God; or if it take not this way, than to Fanatic Conceits of Revelation and a prophesying Spirit.