Physicke, to cure the most dangerous disease of desperation Collected for the direction and comfort of such Christians as trauayling and being heauie loaden in their consciences, with the burthen of their sinnes, stand in danger either in time of their sicknesse to fall away from their God, through deepe despaire, or else in time of their health, to yeelde to one desparate end, or other, to the ruine and vtter confusion of both bodyes and soules for euer. By W.W.
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Physicke, to cure the most dangerous disease of desperation Collected for the direction and comfort of such Christians as trauayling and being heauie loaden in their consciences, with the burthen of their sinnes, stand in danger either in time of their sicknesse to fall away from their God, through deepe despaire, or else in time of their health, to yeelde to one desparate end, or other, to the ruine and vtter confusion of both bodyes and soules for euer. By W.W.
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Willymat, William, d. 1615.
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At London :: Printed [by W. White] for Robert Boulton, and are to be sold at his shop in Chauneerie lane neere Holborne,
1605.
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Despair -- Early works to 1800.
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"Physicke, to cure the most dangerous disease of desperation Collected for the direction and comfort of such Christians as trauayling and being heauie loaden in their consciences, with the burthen of their sinnes, stand in danger either in time of their sicknesse to fall away from their God, through deepe despaire, or else in time of their health, to yeelde to one desparate end, or other, to the ruine and vtter confusion of both bodyes and soules for euer. By W.W." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15495.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.
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CHAPTER. VII.
THe fift cause of Desperation aryseth from the manifold crosses & afflictions of this present life: for from hence it is that some men being dayly ferrited, follo∣wed on, and euen almost pressed downe with temporall afflictions & troubles, as penu••••e, pouertie, hunger, nakednes, sick∣nes of body, troubles of minde, vnquiet suggestions of the flesh, temptatiōs of the Diuell, persecutions, imprisonments, losse of friendes, losse of goodes, losse of good name & fame, a wicked, crooked, and fro∣ward mate in matrimonie, disobedient & vntoward children, vnkind & vnthankful friends, vndeserued malice, enuie, and ha∣tred of frowarde neighbours, and many
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other such like crosses, as dayly in one sort or other befal men: When they once feele them selues touched & tryed here∣with, anone they take occasion hereby to cry out, and lamentably to howle, and cursse the day wherein they where borne, to call that an vnhappy hower wherein their mothers brought them foorth, to wish they had died in their birth, and that they had perished so soone as they came out of their mothers wombe; that some hill might fall vpon them & ouerwhelme them, that so they might shortly be rid out of their paines: Yea they will not be perswaded that these thinges are sent of God (for the most part) to such as he lo∣ueth, but rather to such as he hateth; and that neuer a louing Father will handle his children so as they are handled. Now the Diuell most subtilly lying in wayte for his aduantage, taketh hold on this their weaknesse, and striueth by little and litle by such occasions as these to worke vtter desperation in them; and by these meanes oftentimes forceth some to some sodaine, wretched, and desperat endes.