3150. as to be in a completely similar degree with fear, in danger of death. Hence may also be evident how the Lord led him, so that he might not be a baser excrement than ever anyone in the world [could be]. This he also acknowledged, and confessed that there would have been such an indescribable excrementitious [principle], were he not the most timid of all in the world [universo orbe terrarum]. - 1748, September 14.