(5.) Do not sometimes emergent and urgent passions spring out of the soul in secret, that are not comely in society? (6.) To argue from the text: may not the soul’s secret addresses about inward sorrows and joys be a sweet testimony of the sincerity and integrity of the heart, when “the heart knoweth his own bitterness, and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy?” (Prov. 14:10.) Perhaps a man has an Ishmael, an Absalom, a Rehoboam to weep for, and therefore gets into an inward chamber: (2 Sam.
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