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V
&
R.
2.
Ephefdnr,
Chap.
+.
(hips
are
fometime overwhelmed with waves
,
sometime (lathed
a-
gainft rocks and caft on quick- fands.So it
is
with anger
and
other
af-
feCtions,
they
are finfull
three wayes.
r.
I
fthcy
fIirreot
at all
or bc
flack:
for hereby men are cold
in
Gods
caufe and fluggifh in
their journey towards
heaven,
a,
When
they
rife up againft
God
and
goodneffe,and provoke
us
to
fa
our
felves againft
piety,
to
oppofe
and perfecute
it;
for then
they ptterly hinder
us in
our journey
and
carry
us
back to hell-ward.
3.
When
they are
too violent,for
then
they oft
carry
us
headlong
unto
evil', or
mifcarry
us in
the
doing
of
good
that
it
turneth unto
evils.
This
then
is
the work
of
theekneth: for
anger
chat
as
it giveth it
leave
to
arifc
and kindle when
and
where
it
should,
fo
it
doth guide
and
mode
-
tate
it
that
it
keeps its
bounds
and
become not
finfull
anger
in
fetting
us
againft
good,
or making
us
to
exceed meafure even for good it
felfe.
Secondly,more particularly
meekneffe
towards God
fltewes
it
Idle
in
thefe
three things.
r.
It
cloth
receive and
willingly fubjeet
it felfe
wholly
to the Word
of
God, whether
it fpeak
good or
evill
to
a
man,
whether
it
reprove
of commend,
threaten or comfort.
Receive
with tam,.
ut.
meeknefe the word
engraffed
in
you
,
as
did good
Hezekjab, who when
by
the Prophet
E(ay
he
was told
of
the fpoyle that
should
be made
of
his
treafures, wherein
he
had
too
much boafted
,
and
the captivity
of
his
pofterity, did not
in
wrath boyleagainrt it,but
(cooping and
yeeld-
ing
to
it faid
, The word
of
God which thou
haft fpoken
isgood,
a
Kingsz.
59.
a. It
ftuopes unto
and
quietly takes upon
it
felfe
the yoake
of
Ch
rift,
and (bakes
not offthe molt
fink
precepts
of
the
Gotpeil,
nor
declines
the molt
fevere courfcs
of
mortification, though they
croffe
the
flesh,
reflraine
our liberty
and keep
us
(hurt
ofour profit,
cafe
and
such like
things which
pleafe
the flesh, but undergoeth
all
without
murmuring or reasoning. And
fo
Chrift
affirmes
it to
bee
a
part
of
meeknes
to
take
his yoak
de
to
find
it
eafy;which they
that
want this tame
Mxtth.n.t9.
and
meek fpirit cannot endure,
but (torme at
and
ftrugele with
all
their
might
to
cafe
off,Let
as break
thew
bonds
&
eaff away
their
cord,
from
us.
Pfal..,
Z.
Thirdly,meekneffe doth not
in
a
diftempered manner fret at Gdds
correhfions and
works
though
they
cro(re
him, but
patiently
doth
bear
them, at the good
theefe
on
the Croffe:
Dolt
thou
not
feare
God
(faith
he)
to
his
fellow?
We
are
here
jufily
,
and
fifer
things
worthy
of
what
we
have
done;
whereinthe Prophet
Moab
much
forgot
all meek-
Luke
3541.
neffe,
whomwhen
the
Lord
crofl'ed in nos
deftroying Nineveh
actor-
43'
ding
to
his
preaching,
and in fmiting
of
his
gourd
,
in
whofc fhadow
he fo much delighted ,was all
in
a
chafe,and
in
this
refh
anger did
jufti-
Ion,h
fy
himfelfe and fearfully conteft with
the Lord. As
heath
which
are
tamed and
fubduedby man
are ruled
by the words
and
voyce
of
their
mailer
to
turne this
or that
way
,
to
doe this
or that
,
take on them
quietly faddleor yoake
to
doe their
work,beareblowes
and ftroakes
at
their hands
with (rare
and fobmiffion,
whichthofe
that
are wild
and
fierce will
not endure,but at
fuch
things
are enraged and turne
a-
gainft