Qetiovs,and Cafes ofConfcience Chap.9 Fif: lily, the good opinion and love of our (elves, which (whenall is.faid)are the chief caufes of anger, ought allo robe motives to abate or prevent it : For would any man that thinks well of himfelf, and loves his owngood, make hitmt- felfvile and bruitilh ? But this is done by letting the reines loofeCO our chol- ler : whereas the way to deferve the goodopinion of our felves and others, is tomaintain our felves calme and generous, never removed from the Imperial Power over our felves by any violence of Paffion. Prov. 16. 32. He that is Jo ;v to ongrr is better- then themighty, and he that rules hisfpirit, them he that takes aCity : Ahwander M. defervesnot the nameofagreat Conquerour,who was a Raver° his anger. Ob.' Bat I have many provocations from thofe' with whom I mutt necelarily live, fervants efprcial1y,th.y arefo bad;&c ? Anfw. Anger is a remedy worfe then thedifeafe, and no houfhold-diforder is worth the diforderingof our foules with pafion. Better were it for us to. be ill ferved, or not ferved at all, then to make our fervants our Mailers, giving them power ofdifpoffelliing us ofthe Command of our felves, whenfoever it pleafeth them to, provoke us to anger. Yet a wife man may exprefle in- di,nation without . anger, making others tremble , himfelf (landing un- a:ov4d. Quoit. How :may we from feeins anger inothers, learns to cure it in our felves ? Angie. pi: ft, [tame tohate it, and take heed of it,by obfervinghow imperu- ous and fervile it is togeiher : How ugly, unbecoming, unreafonable and hurt- ful it is to others, and mote to a mans fell. Secondly, mark carefully thewholefome' warning which an angry adverfary will give us : For he Will be fure to tell us all the evil that heTeeth in us, which our felves fee not. A benefit not to be expeted from our heft friends. Thirdly, Study the Science of dilcerning mens fpirits, con(deringwith aju- dicious eye the feveral effe isof every mans anger. For nopafiion Both fomuch difcover mans nature as this. -If a man be a contemner ofGod, as loon ashe is angry, he will wreak his teen uponGod with blafphemies : If he hath Piety and ingenuiry, hewill make them plead for him, yet but lamely, as difcom- Fored by anger : Ifhe be a Coward, hewill inCult over the weak : and if he find refilance, you (hall fee him threaten, and tremble together, like bare dogs, then barking moll when they run away. If he be haughty, he will expreffe his anger by a fcornful fmile, and will boatl of his blood and valour, as Lamech did. And from hencelet us reflet upon our felves : He that mindes well how t wrath betrayesa man, and (ayes open his infirmities, and that a man that bath no rule over his own fpirit, is like a City that is broken down, and without walls, Prov. 2 ç. 28. will fence himfelf against that treacherous paffron, by Chriflian meekneffeand moderation, and will learn to be wife by his neighbours harmes : and will obferve ChrillsPrecept, L.Mat. is. 29,. Learnof me, for I ammeek, and lowly, &c. Quell. what is hatred ? er4nfw. It is an indignation for an injury receivedor imagined, or for an ill opinion conceived of a perron or aóion. It differs from anger in this : An- ger is fudden,and hath a ¡bort court,but hatred is more durable and failing; An- ger Peeks more a mans vindication then the hatme of others, but hatred fta- dies the hurt ofhis adverfary. Quell. Whence Both hatredproceed ? Anfw. Its a compound of pride and fadnette : and it proceeds out of Igno- rance of ones felt, and the price and nature of things : Hence 1 ;ohn a. ii. He that hates his brother is in darkneffe, and knows not whitherhegoes, becaufe that
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