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 THE

CAUSES AND CURE

OF

SPIRITUAL DARKNESS.

DEAR BROTHER,

I DO pity you with all my heart, and that not barely from a principle of common benevolence, or even Christian charity, but from real experience of perhaps the like, or worse, condition myself.

Your's I suppose to be a nervous disorder, attended with spiritual darkness and distress ; if so, by attending to my story, and the reflections arising from it, you may possibly find some consolation.

About eighteen years ago, I fell into a deep and dreadful oppression of spirits, the very remembrance of which is ready to make me shudder, even to this day. There was some great disorder of body, but my mind was still more disordered, and felt the weight of all. Every thing of a distressing and terrifying nature, as to my spiritual concerns especially, seemed to be present with me. I thought myself the most