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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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If you cannot do this of your self, tell your friend when the temptation cometh, and it is his duty who hath the care of you to divert you with some other talk or works, or force you into diverting Company.
Yet be not too much troubled at the temptation; for trouble of mind doth keep the evil matter in your memory, and so increase it, as pain of a sore draws the blood and spirits to the place. And this is the design of Satan, to give you troubling thoughts, and then to cause more by being troubled at those, and so for one thought and trouble to cause another, and that another, and so on, as waves in the Sea do follow each other, to be tempted is common to the best: I told you to what Idolatry Christ was tempted: When you feel such thoughts, thank God that Satan cannot force you to love them, or consent.
9. Again still remember what a comfortable Evidence you carry about with you, that your sin is not damning, while you feel that you love it not, but hate it and are weary of it: Scarce any sort of sinners have so little pleasure in their sin as the melancholy, nor so little desire to keep them, and only beloved sins undo men.
9. Again still remember what a comfortable Evidence you carry about with you, that your sin is not damning, while you feel that you love it not, but hate it and are weary of it: Scarce any sort of sinners have so little pleasure in their sin as the melancholly, nor so little desire to keep them, and only beloved sins undo men.