Chap.5. his h,and faying no more. Anger is a tender vertue(faith one) and fuch as,by reafonof ourunskilfullnefle, may be eafily corrupted and Made dangerous. The, wrathofman ( ritually ) worketh not Dm./. the righceoufneffe ofGod : nay it lets in the devil, that old man- EPheí.454. (layer, and is the murdererof the heart(as here)makingway to the murder of the tongue and hand. It is the match to receive the fire ofcontention,and the bellows to blow it up,Prov. t 5. t 8.Now where ftrife is,there id conAfiox, andevery evilwarke, not murder Iam,;; S, excepted. And hofever Jha11 fay unto his brother, Racha] Anger(as fire) Vcxcot eitij jffmoihercd,will languiíh, but leecur, willflame into further mil- tevi,nc. chief . Ceafe from anger, faithDavid, for elfe thouwilt fret thy Pial ; 7,8. Pelfto do evil. And if thou haft doneevil (or plaid the fool, aso- .;(1.40.¡2,3? .thers read it) faith Agur,in loftingup thyfelf( and puffing againft expounded. thy brother, againft whom in chine anger thou haft deviled fome Never. enitchief) if thou haft thought evil againfk him, yet lay thy hand upon thy mouth: fay not fo much as Racha, utter not any fomuch as an inarticulatevoice, fnuffe nor,fnort not,ipet not, as he,Deat. 25 9. (tampnot with clappingat the hands, as Balac, faynot fo .,,b much as fie, to thine offendingbrother, faith TheophylatP; thou xa7í 7vs-6-, him not, faith Chry /Rome, call him not filly or (hallow, one that Cr,r, l . ,tr wants brains, faith Iren,eua, qui exploit cerebrum, as the word fig -, syrac bee r®. nifierh,if it lignifie any thing. Surely (faith e/fgur, letting forth Yav Fro the reafonof his former precept by a double fimilitude) the churn- H,fych. ing of mike brinitethforth butter, and the wringing of thenote bringeth forth blond : ( the forcing of wrath (the giving it its forth and full fcope, and notfupprefíing it when it firft begins to boile in a mans breft) bringeth forthftrife. Let therefore the firft heatofpalTion fettle,and that darknefte paffe, that hath clouded the si;inde. 7Jt fragili. glacies,occidatira mars. Walke into the gar- den with Ahajhuero;h, into the field with?Jonathan, when hisfa- I Sam.ro.:4. ther hadprovoked him to wrath : (againft the Apoftles precept.) Eph.6.4. Divert to tome other company, place, bufineffe, about form thing thou canft be molt earneft at. Give not place to wrath,nonot a lit- maid lu, dia- tla.:fet Godbefore thy tumultuating pafllons,and fo filence them ; bole nequi fme, dieworfe will follow. ad bane civita. Boot Ibhofoever jhall ry, Thom Fool, &c.] How much more, ten' perturban. Rogue,Baftard,Devil, andother fuch foul and opprobrious tearms, dsm aEpife li notfit to be mentioned among Saints, yet common with many dies riven g Y Y putGeniroenfrt fuch as would be counted fo. What makeft thou here, thou arch- Gill. Fdrello: devil ttECOit691g to St M A T T H E YY. 141
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