Two treatises the first of fear, from Isa. 8, v. 12, 13, and part…

3 If a guilty Conscience have nothing to aggravate, and magnify, nor any doubtful matter to interpret in a frightful sense, it can and often doth create fears and terrors out of nothing at all: the rules of Fear […] not like the rules in Arithmetic where many nothings make nothing, but fear can make something out of nothing, yea, many thing• and great things out of nothing at all.¹ Psal. 53, 5. there wer• they in great fea• where no fear was; here was a great fear raise• or created out of nothing at all• had their fear been examined, an• hunted home to its original, it would have bee• found a pure creature of fancy, a Chimaera have••• no fundamentum in re, no other foundation but […] troubled fancy, and a guilty Conscience; thus it […] with Pashur, he was a very wicked man, and a bit•• enemy to the Prophet Jeremiah, and if there be none […] fright and terrify from abroad, rather than he […] ⟨p. 35⟩want it, he shall be a terror to himself, Jer. 20. 3, 4. he was his own bug bear, afraid of his own shadow; and truly this is a great plague and misery; he that is a terror to himself, can no more flee from terrors than he can flee from himself. O the efficacy of Conscience! how doth it arrest the stoutest sinners, and make them tremble, when there is no visible external cause of fear! Nemo▪ sejudice, nocens absolvitur.

3 If a guilty Conscience have nothing to aggravate, and magnifie, nor any doubtful matter to interpret in a frightful sense, it can and often doth create fears and terrors out of nothing at all: the rules of Fear 〈…〉 not like the rules in Arithmetick where many nothings make nothing, but fear can make something out of nothing, yea, many thing and great things out of nothing at all.