The Enthusiasm of Methodists And Papists Considered
The Enthusiasm of Methodists And Papists Considered
George Lavington
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M 178 The Enthusiasm of relates the case of " young Periain, whose father had sent him to Bedlam for such symptoms of madness, as fasting for near a fortnight ; praying so as to be heard four story high ; selling his cloaths, and giving them to the poor. Mr. Seward and other Methodists waited on the Committee of the Governors of Bedlam ; they plead for him, and own that young people, under their first awakenings, were usually tempted by the devil to run into some extremes. ' The Com- mittee jud...ge Whitefield, Sew r ard, and all their followers, to be as mad as the young man, and really beside themselves. And to prove Mr. Periam to be certainly mad, they allege, that when he first came to Bedlam, he stripped himself to his shirt, and prayed. " But it seems, " he did this to inure himself to hardness at once; for being brought from a warm to a cold place, without windows, and a damp cellar under him, he thought it best to season himself at first. " Are not here sufficient symptoms of madness ?
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