You have taken into your account, _ravings, and madnesses too_. As instances of the former, you refer to the case of _John Haydon_, page 44. and of _Thomas Maxfield_, page 50. I wish you would calmly consider, his reasoning on that head, who is not prejudiced in my favour. “What influence sudden and sharp awakenings may have upon the body, I pretend not to explain. But I make no question _Satan_, so far as he gets power may exert himself on such occasions, partly to hinder the good work in the persons who are thus touched with the sharp arrows of conviction, and partly to disparage the work of God, as if it tended to lead people to distraction.” For instances of madness you refer to pages 88, 90, 91, 92, 93. The words in page 88. are these: “I could not but be under some concern, with regard to one or two persons, who were tormented in an unaccountable manner, and _seemed_ to be indeed _lunatic_ as well as _sore vexed_――Soon after I was sent for to one of these, who was so strangely _torn of the devil_, that I almost wondered her relations did not say, much religion _hath made thee mad_. We prayed God to _bruise Satan_ under her feet. Immediately _we had the petition we asked of him_. She cried out vehemently ‘He is gone, he is gone,’ and was filled with the Spirit of _love, and of a sound mind_. I have seen her many times since, strong in the Lord. When I asked abruptly, ‘What do you desire now?’ She answered, ‘Heaven.’ I asked, ‘What is in your heart?’ She replied, ‘God.’ I asked, ‘But how is your heart when any thing provokes you?’ She said, ‘By the grace of God, I am not provoked at any thing. All the things of this world pass by me as shadows.’ Are these the words of one that is beside herself? Let any man of reason judge!” Your next instance, page 90. stands thus: “About noon I came to _Usk_, where I preached to a small company of poor people, on, _The Son of man is come, to save that which is lost_. One grey-headed man wept and trembled exceedingly: and another who was there (I have since heard) as well as two or three who were at the _Devauden, are gone quite distracted_; that is (my express words that immediately follow, specifying what it was which _some accounted distraction_) ‘They mourn and refuse to be comforted, until they have _redemption through his blood_.’” If _you_ think the case mentioned, pages 92, 93. to be another instance of madness, I contend not. It was because I did not understand that uncommon case, that I prefaced it with this reflection, “The fact I nakedly relate, and leave every man to his own judgment upon it.” Only be pleased to observe, that this _madness_, if such it was, is no more chargeable upon _me_ than upon _you_. For the subject of it had no relation to, or commerce with _me_, nor had I ever seen her before that hour.