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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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7. Its a useful way if you can to engage them in comforting others, that are deeper in Distresses than they: For this will tell them, that their Case is not singular, and they will speak to themselves, while they speak to others. One of the chief means which cured my fears of my Souls Condition about Forty eight years ago, was oft comforting others that had the same doubts, whose Lives persuaded me of their sincerity.
7. Its a useful way if you can to engage them in comforting others, that are deeper in Distresses than they: For this will tell them, that their Case is not singular, and they will speak to themselves, while they speak to others. One of the chief means which cured my fears of my Souls Condition about Forty eight years ago, was oft comforting others that had the same doubts, whose Lives perswaded me of their sincerity.
And it would be a pretty diversion to send to them some person that is in some Error, which they are most against, to dispute it with them, ⟨p. 296⟩that while they whet their wits to convince them, and confute them, it may turn their thoughts from their own Distress. F•••stus tells us, that a Melancholy Patient of his, that was a Papist, was cured when the Reformation came into the Country, by eager and oft disputing against it. A better Cause may better do it.
And it would be a pretty diversion to send to them some person that is in some Error, which they are most against, to dispute it with them, ⟨p. 296⟩that while they whet their wits to convince them, and confute them, it may turn their thoughts from their own Distress. F•••stus tells us, that a Melancholly Patient of his, that was a Papist, was cured when the Reformation came into the Country, by eager and oft disputing against it. A better Cause may better do it.