4o2 Chap. T. The general Èxpofitïónof thisCommandment. Com.6. Ira fpiritus fantii, a holy anger. Such ananger was that ofour Saviouragainft them john 2.a4, thatprophaned the Temple. And that of Ea/A, when he faw the Worfhip ofBaal fit en Job. cap. a. up, inftead of the true worthyof God. 2 And this anger venerable Beda commends to us : Zelo domas patris Salvator impíos ejecit é'Templs, zelemus 6- not dorumDei, a quantum poffumur nèquid in.ea pravum geratur, infiJtamus : our Saviour in zeal to his Fathers houfe turned the wickedout of the Temple, let us beas zealous for that houfe, and be earneft andcareful as:much as in us lieth,that no wicked thing be done there, &c. Mitth.5. 22. The other is ira per vitium, a faulty anger, or ira cares, a flefhly anger and 23. that is, when a man is angry without caufe , condemned by our Saviour; who threatens him that is angry with his brother itxñ, without a caufe ; or when it is extra modum,beyond all rules ofmoderation ; whena man gives place to wrath, and and lets it run out of all compafs, contrary to theApofiles Rule, who bidsus; refit Rom. sa. 59. anger, andnot give place to it. Saint Gregory gives us a rule for this kind of anger s Ira cam delinquentiuni culpas infequitur, non deber menti quaff Domina preire;fed poft an h oral. rationis t,rrum gnarl ancua famulari : when anger profecutes the faults ofDclin- quents,It fhould not go before the mind like a Mifirefs, but follow:Reafon as an hand-maid ; arid when the affe6tion is not thus ruled by Reafoti, then it is no more Nemefis, but radix amaritudints, a root ofbitternefs, or veaenumferpentis,`the poifon Hey,. sa. r5. of the Serpent that inteaethour nature. Now this Gnful wrath, which is the fpawn ofthofe fins which Saint James recko- neth up, is either the firff motion rifingin us, or elfe it is fuppuratio vitii, an im- poffhume, or inward ranckling of it : and this, if it be againft aSuperiour, it is cal- led a grudges if againft an equal, rancour ; if towards an Inferiour, it is termed dif- dain 5 and this grudge if it continue longer, will grow into an impoflume ofenvy, and fo will rancour into hatred, and difdain into contempt. After which they ufually break out, and have two iffues: r. In the Tongue, 2. In the Countenance. If it breaks out nett in the Tongue, it is called fpuma vitii. the foam or froth of the vice, which being againft Superiours is called fufarrus, whifpering or detraaion : of fuch Saint IsSera. Bernard faith, Diabolismportent in lingua, they carry the Devil in their tongue. And when it is againft Equals, it is called iet3eiet, contentious railing and brawling ; and laftly, againti Inferiours, it is fcoffing and reproaching: or elfe 2. it breaks out in the countenance,which is called, Dents vitii,rhe jaundice of fin, we (hall know it ifit Efay a. u. be againft Superiours, per obliquas ocular, by the crooked and learingeye ; if to an equal, by the whole face.; and to an Inferiour by high and lofty looks, as the Pro- phet calls them. 3, Befides there it breaks out in allum err ex; tutionem, into execution , into the hands and feet, and then it is called Lepra peccati, theleproufie of fin, and produeeth Jer. a& i8ó fighting and bloud- fhedding : which Leproufie flays not within our felves, but in- feas othersalto, Come let us . fmite himwith the tongue. Thefe are all a-kin ro Mur- der. And this is a brief enumeration of thofe things,which (hall hereafter be fet forth at large. And as in this Commandment there is a prohibition of Murder and its Kindred, fo is there alfo an injunaion in general to do all things that may conduce to the prefervation of our Neighbours life : of which we (hall alto (peak hereafter. The Hebrews have afaying , that every man ought to be lignum vile proximo, a tree of life to his Neighbour. What it is to be lignum vite, a tree of life to our Neighbour , the Wife-man tells us in fundry places: frights juffi, the fruit of the Prov. r r. 30. righteous k a tree oflife, to deal juftly with him, and offer him no wrong 5, and in another place, Defideriumexpletum, a defier fulfilled is a tree oflife, that is', by be- r3. ta. neficence and doing good ; and again, lingua placabili:, a gentle tongue, which '5. 4. Neighbour tohave tor Thefe are a found, vite, trees of heartwhich is indeed he life ofthe 54.30 ,flea; as he tells inanother place ; for without this, this life is, as the Heathen faid, á,6t0-MO-, life wilbout life. It is a foolifh opinion of fome that think, that the body and fenfes art theheft things they poffefs, and thereupon infer that Murder bath onely a relation to the body : but the truth is, there is amurder ofthe Soul as well as of the body. So that Murder is referred to two lives; s. The life prefent. And 2. the life to come. The
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