A25467:1492
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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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.
And if Satan would drive you unseasonably upon longer secret prayer then you can bear, remember that even sickness will excuse the sick from that sort of duty which they are unable for, and so will your disease: And the unutterable groans of the spirit are accepted.
If you have privacy out of hearing, I would give you this advice, that instead of long meditation or long secret Prayer, you will sing a Psalm of praise to God, such as the 23, or the 133, &c. This will excite your Spirit to that sort of holy affection, which is much more acceptable to God, and suitable to the hopes of a believer, than your repining troubles are.
IV. But yet I have not done with the duty of those that take care of distressed melancholy persons, especially Husbands to their Wives (for it is much more frequently the disease of Women than of men) when the disease disableth them to help themselves, the most of their helps under God must be from others: And this is of two Sorts, 1. In prudent carriage to them. 2. In Medicine and Diet: A little of both.
IV. But yet I have not done with the duty of those that take care of distressed melancholly persons, especially Husbands to their Wives (for it is much more frequently the disease of Women than of men) when the disease disableth them to help themselves, the most of their helps under God must be from others: And this is of two Sorts, 1. In prudent carriage to them. 2. In Medicine and Diet: A little of both.