Man, moral and physical, or, The influence of health and disease on religious experience / by the Rev. Joseph H. Jones.

  • Jones, J. H. (Joseph Huntington), 1797-1868.
Date:
1861
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    CHAPTER IV. Counsels to TnE Troubled and Desponding—Book not written for medical men—Why the Bubjeol of this volume not more frequently treated in later times—Pro- minency given it in the older English writers—Remark of Dr. Cheyne on the ignorance of many religious men of the influence of physical causes on their spiritual enjoyment. rages 197—199. Desponding Christians should ascertain the cause of TnEiR Religious Disquietude—Baxter's opinion— Should not chide themselves for faults which are charge- able to bodily disease—Counsel on this subject attended with more or less danger—Many of our sorrows of soul retrihutory, and we are only made to possess the iniquities of our youth—The subject guarded against perversion— Remark of Dr. A. Alexander—Case mentioned by Mr. Douglass, of Cavers—Some predisposed to think that their gloom proceeds from a culpable cause—Inquiries into our personal state should be pursued diligently— Despondency may be produced by false views of religion, or it may cause them—Xot always easy to determine which is cause and which effect—A good rule for guiding the judgment—Religious vapours. Pages !!'!>—205. The desponding should avail themselves of judi- cious Medical Advice—Case of Dr. Rush—Baxter's counsel—What a well instructed physician can do— Every physician not competent to treat the cases of the desponding—Physicians often betray a culpable igno- rance of the reciprocating relationship between body and mind—Book of the heart—Sentiments of an eminent lecturer in a medical school—Advice of Mr. Rogers— Change in the character of diseases in later years—