Re: for Annabel the caution's allied, no doubt me it's fun, whereas for you it's abusing hungry

Re: for Annabel the caution's allied, no doubt me it's fun, whereas for you it's abusing hungry

are best
known-declared, that they found these impressions on persons'
imaginations quite different things from what fame had before
represented to them, and that they were what none need to wonder at-or
to that purpose.

There have indeed been some few instances of impressions on persons
imaginations, which have been somewhat mysterious to me, and I have been
at a loss about them. For, though it has been exceeding evident to me,
by many things that appeared both then and afterwards, that they indeed
had a greater sense of the spiritual excellency of divine things
accompanying them, yet I have not been able well to satisfy myself
whether their imaginary ideas have been more than could naturally arise
from their spiritual sense of things. However, I have used the utmost
caution in such cases; great care has been taken both in public and in
private to teach persons the difference between what is spiritual and
what is merely imaginary. I have often warned persons not to lay the
stress of their hope on any ideas of any outward glory, or any external
thing whatsoever, and have met with no opposition in such instructions.
But it is not strange if some weaker persons, in giving an account of
their experiences, have not so prudently distinguished between the
spiritual and imaginary part; of which some who have not been well
affected to religion might take advantage.

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