1720. I can even emphatically assert that their pains, terrors, and the like, are almost as real to them as those felt in bodies. They have admitted this numerous times, and if the Lord did not take away their fantasies, that is the bodily things remaining in their mind, they would be tortured with much greater torment than in their body. For evil spirits, and the devil's gang, not only entertain such imaginings themselves, but also imprint the same in the minds of those they torment. Unless the Lord should take these away and calm them down, they would have a hell more painful by far than if their bodies were kept in the torment of the most intense pains.