"Writing about himself in the third person as a young man he speaks of the "fleeting Clouds" of doubts which never ceased "now & then to darken/obscure/the clearest serenity of his quiet: which made him often say that Injections of this Nature were such a Disease to his Faith as the Tooth-ach is to the Body; for tho it be not mortall, ˜tis very troublesome" (BP 37: 182r)."