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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 know any lawful thing that will please them in speech, in company, in apparel, in rooms, in attendance, give it them: If you know at what they are displeased remove it, I speak not of the Distracted that must be mastered by forces, but of the sad and melancholy, could you devise how to put them in a pleased condition, you might cure them.
If you know any lawful thing that will please them in speech, in company, in apparel, in rooms, in attendance, give it them: If you know at what they are displeased remove it, I speak not of the Distracted that must be mastered by forces, but of the sad and melancholly, could you devise how to put them in a pleased condition, you might cure them.
2. As much as you can divert them from the thoughts which are their trouble, keep them on some other talks and business, break in upon ⟨p. 295⟩them and interrupt their musings, rouse them out of it, but with loving importunity; suffer them not to be long alone, get fit company to them, or them to it, especially suffer them not to be idle, but drive or draw them to some pleasing works, which may stir the body and employ the thoughts: If they are addicted to reading, let it not be too long, nor any books that are unfit for them, and rather let another read to them than themselves: Doctor Sibbes Books, and some useful pleasing History or Chronicles, or news of great matters abroad in the world, may do somewhat to divert them.
2. As much as you can divert them from the thoughts which are their trouble, keep them on some other talkes and business, break in upon ⟨p. 295⟩them and interrupt their musings, rouse them out of it, but with loving importunity; suffer them not to be long alone, get fit company to them, or them to it, especially suffer them not to be idle, but drive or draw them to some pleasing works, which may stir the body and employ the thoughts: If they are addicted to reading, let it not be too long, nor any books that are unfit for them, and rather let another read to them than themselves: Doctor Sibbes Books, and some useful pleasing History or Chronicles, or news of great matters abroad in the world, may do somewhat to divert them.