For melancholy, I have by long experience found it to have so great and common a hand in the fears and troubles of mind that I meet not with one of many, that live in great troubles and fears for any long time together, but melancholy is the main seat of them: though they feel nothing in their body but all in their mind. I would have such persons make use of some able godly physician, and he will help them to discern how much of their trouble comes from melancholy. Where this is the cause, usually the party is fearful of almost everything; a word or a sudden thought will disquiet them.
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