A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

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.

8. If other means will not do, neglect not Physic; and though they will be averse to it, as believing that the Disease is only in the mind they must be persuaded or forced to it. I have known the Lady deep in Melancholy, who a long time would neither speak nor take Physic, nor endure her Husband to go out of the room; and with the restraint and grief he dyed, and she was cured by Physic put down her throat with a Pipe by force.

8. If other means will not do, neglect not Physick; and though they will be averse to it, as believing that the Disease is only in the mind they must be perswaded or forced to it. I have known the Lady deep in Melancholly, who a long time would neither speak nor take Physick, nor endure her Husband to go out of the room; and with the restraint and grief he dyed, and she was cured by Physick put down her hroat with a Pipe by force.