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quiet of mind, O, then you fear all arises from presumption, your case is naught, and it was better with you when you had trouble of mind. Is it not thus? Are you not ashamed that you have been thus senseless, and absurd in your own reasonings; and yet, this understanding, reason, and sense of yours must be hearkened unto, before the truth of God's word, and before the judgment of all men, though never so judicious. Will any body that is wise trust such a judgment? If an excellent physician for others, is seldom found to be the best physician for himself in a dangerous sickness, but will make use of one, it may be, inferior in judgment in physic to himself; for his own direction is not so well to be trusted in his own case; then, methinks, it should be your wisdom to make use of the judgment of others, and not follow your own sense.

But you will say, Shall I think otherwise of myself than I feel?

I answer; Aye, in some cases, or else you will be counted a wilful fool. As in the case of an ague, you taste your drink to be of an odd savour; before you had your ague, you knew it was well relished, and those who bring it, tell you it is the same; standers-by taste it for you, and say it is the same, and that it is excellently well relished. I hope you are wiser in such a case as this, than to conclude according to your feeling and taste; every one sees that the fault was in your palate, not in the drink. Even so is it with you, when the understanding is distempered with a shaking fit of groundless and faithless fear: wherefore, in this state, deny your own sense, and trust not your own judgment; but hearken unto the judgment of other men. And the rather, because God does therefore comfort men, and give them experience of his consolations, that they may comfort others in like cases, 2 Cor. i. 4. Also, he has given commandment to his more understanding and confirmed children, that they should comfort you, 1 Thess. v. 14; giving them to understand how it is with you in the matter of your soul, better than you can know of yourselves. Nay, God