Miscellanies upon various subjects ... / [John Aubrey].

  • John Aubrey
Date:
1784
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    to be godly, are known to have this faculty. This evidently appears, in that they are troubled for having it, judging it a fin, and that it came from the: Devil, and not from God; earneftly defiring and withing to be rid of it, if poflible; and to that effe@, have made application to their minifter, to pray to God for them that they might be exonered from that burden. They have fupplicated the prefbytery, who judicially appointed publick prayers to be made in feveral churches, and a fermon preached to that purpofe, in their own parifh church, by their minifter; and they have compeired before the pulpit, after fermon, making confeffion openly of that fin, with deep fenfe on their knees; renounced any fuch gift or faculty which they had to God’s difhonour, and earneftly defired the minifter to pray for them; and this their recantation recorded; and after this, they were never troubled with -fuch a fight any more.
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