1361. Moreover, these spirits have long troubled me, for weeks, indeed for a month and more, and they brought about an urge, as it were, and thus the danger, that they would thrust my tongue between my teeth and so cut it off. For a long time I complained about this, and said that it is incredible that any man should be troubled with such an urge, as it were, or such an impulse. I know, indeed, whence it is. The cause of it is in all those who hate verities; they love only the literal sense, for they then trust in their own merit, and want to merit heaven on account of some persecutions, besides many other causes. 1748, Mar. 14.