Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded Chapter 2 Modernized

In case of strong and violent temptations, the real frame of a man's heart is not to be judged by the multiplicity of thoughts about any object. For whether they are from Satan's suggestions, or from inward darkness, trouble, and horror, they will impose such a continual sense of themselves on the mind, as to engage all its thoughts about them. As when a man is in a storm at sea, the
current of his thoughts run quite another way than when he is in safety about his circumstances. But ordinarily, voluntary thoughts are the best measure and indication of the frame of our minds.