Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... A melancholy constitution is Satan’s anvil, upon which he forms many black, dark, and dismal temptations, which do exceedingly tend to the keeping down of divine consolation from rising high in the soul. This black, dark, dusky humour disturbs both soul and body; it tempts Satan to tempt the soul, and it unables the soul to resist the temptation; yea, it prepares the soul to hearken to the temptation, and to close and fall in with the temptation, as the experiences of all melancholy Christians can testify. ...
For more, see Thomas Brooks on the evil of melancholy.
For more, see Thomas Brooks on the evil of melancholy.