And according as these things minister him matter of
temptation, so useth he himself in the manner of his temptation.
Now likewise as in such folk as are full of young warm lusty blood
and other humours exciting the flesh to filthy voluptuous living,
the devil useth to make those things his instruments in tempting
them and provoking them to it; and as, where he findeth some folk
full of hot blood and choler, he maketh those humours his
instruments to set their hearts on fire in wrath and fierce
furious anger; so where he findeth some folk who, through some
dull melancholy humours, are naturally disposed to fear, he
casteth sometimes such a fearful imagination into their mind that
without help of God they can never cast it out of their heart.
Some, at the sudden falling of some horrible thought into their
mind, have not only had a great abomination at it (which
abomination they well and virtuously had), but the devil, using
their melancholy humour and thereby their natural inclination to
fear for his instruments, hath caused them to conceive therewith
such a deep dread besides that they think themselves with that
abominable thought to be fallen into such an outrageous sin that
they are ready to fall into despair of grace, believing that God
hath given them over for ever.
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