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

But some will object that they cannot help their fears and tremblings when any danger appears; because fear is the disease, at least the sad effect and Symptom of a disease with which God hath wounded them; a deep and fixed melancholy hath so far prevailed, that the least trouble overcomes them: If any sad afflictive providence befall, or but threaten them; their fears presently rise, and their hearts sink, sleep departs, thoughts tumultuate, the blood boils, and the whole frame of nature is put into disorder. If therefore the Lord should permit such great and dreadful trials to befall them, they can think of nothing less than dying by the hand of their own fears, before the hand of any enemy touch them; or which is a thousand times worse, be driven by their fears into the net of temptation, even to deny the Lord that bought them.

But some will object that they cannot help their fears and tremblings when any danger appears; because fear is the disease, at least the sad effect and Symptome of a disease with which God hath wounded them; a deep and fixed melancholy hath so far prevailed, that the least trouble overcomes them: If any sad afflictive providence befal, or but threaten them; their fears presently rise, and their hearts sink, sleep departs, thoughts tumultuate, the bloud boyls, and the whole frame of nature is put into disorder. If therefore the Lord should permit such great and dreadful trials to befal them, they can think of nothing less than dying by the hand of their own fears, before the hand of any enemy touch them; or which is a thousand times worse, be driven by their fears into the net of temptation, even to deny the Lord that bought them.