 | Laura Spencer Portor - Books and reading - 1917 - 312 pages
...different, after all, from the mediaeval one, is clear from his own writings : — My sins [he says] did so offend the Lord that even in my childhood He...and wicked spirits, who still, as I then thought, laboured to draw me away with them, of which I could never be rid. I was afflicted with thoughts of... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott - Poetry - 1922 - 350 pages
...under the stress of his religious emotions. As a child, he tells us, he committed terrible sins. These "did so offend the Lord, that even in my childhood...dreams, and did terrify me with dreadful visions." External objects and events went by him unnoticed; while "he looked upon that which was passing through... | |
 | William Henry Burnham - Child mental health - 1924 - 792 pages
...conflict from discordant mental complexes of a religious character. Of himself, Bunyan says:21 "My sins did so offend the Lord that even in my childhood He...and wicked spirits, who still, as I then thought, laboured to draw me away with them, of which I could never be rid. I was afflicted with thoughts of... | |
 | Harold Edwin Balme Speight - Authors, English - 1928 - 266 pages
...which in keeping with the superstitions of the age he attributed to divine judgments. My sins [he says] did so offend the Lord that even in my childhood He...been in my bed greatly afflicted while asleep, with apprehension of devils and wicked spirits, who still, as I then thought, laboured to draw me away with... | |
 | George Bagshawe Harrison - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 250 pages
...spent this and the other day in sin, I have in my bed been greatly afflicted while asleep with the apprehensions of devils and wicked spirits, who still, as I then thought, laboured to draw me away with them, of which I could never be rid. Also I should, at these years, be... | |
 | George Bagshawe Harrison - 1928 - 200 pages
...spent this and the other day in sin, I have in my bed been greatly afflicted while asleep with the apprehensions of devils and wicked spirits, who still, as I then thought, laboured to draw me away with them, of which I could never be rid. Also I should, at these years, be... | |
 | William Henry Burnham - Child mental health - 1924 - 736 pages
...conflict from discordant mental complexes of a religious character. Of himself, Bunyan says:21 "My sins did so offend the Lord that even in my childhood He...and wicked spirits, who still, as I then thought, laboured to draw me away with them, of which I could never be rid. I was afflicted with thoughts of... | |
 | Joseph W. Ciarrocchi - Psychology - 1995 - 196 pages
...spent this and the other day in sin, I have in my bed been greatly afflicted, while asleep, with the apprehensions of devils and wicked spirits, who still, as I then thought, laboured to draw me away with them, of which I could never be rid. (p.19) He also describes depression... | |
 | John Bunyan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 342 pages
...that they became as a second Nature to me; the which, as I also have with soberness considered since, did so offend the Lord, that even in my childhood...scare and affright me with fearful dreams, and did terrific me with dreadful visions. For often, after I had spent this and the other day in sin, I have... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 552 pages
...that they became as a second nature to me; the which, as I also have with soberness considered since, did so offend the Lord, that even in my childhood...dreams, and did terrify me with dreadful visions; for often, after I had spent this and the other day in sin, I have in my bed been greatly afflicted,... | |
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I also have with soberness considered since, did so offend the Lord, that even in my childhood he did scare and affright me with fearful dreams, and did terrify me with dreadful visions. For often, after I had spent this and the other day in sin, I have... 
