Solitude [ Feelings & Emotions ]
… cultures of Catholicism. Many zealous Protestants also delighted in regular retreats into the closet or other private spaces to meditate and pray in a space separate from secular concerns. Yet the act of isolating oneself from company, even for spiritual retreat, was … God in Secret, abridged by Benjamin Fawcett (2nd edition, 1774), p. 32. The devil inhabited even the most sanctified of spaces, and without the support of others it was recognised that the solitary individual risked temptation. Solitude …
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