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Doty.
IrislawEull
in
Come
mediae
to
be
angry.
Exod.; zag.
s.
Pet.14.
dtef.
How
ro rid-
ce.
ne
of
lawful
and holy
an.
ger,
Ephefzanf
Chap.4.
V$x.26.
«Be
ye
holily
angry,
but
be
not finnefully
angry,and
if
fuch anger enter,
r.
yet
continue
not
in
it
let
not the
devil
further
and
further
elofe
with
you.
Firft then we
fee,
that
it
is
not
unlawfull
to
be
angry,
yea
that
in
fame
manner a
Chri
f?ian
may
and
mull
be
angry
:
our
saviour doth not
in
generall
threaten
all
anger,
Ladat. 5. 19.
but that
anger which
is
rafh
and
caufelefle; and here Paul
doth not
fay
in
no
cafe be angry, but
be
angry
fo.0
you
fin
not
in youranger.
And
anger
is
afcribed to God him.
felfe,
which
if
it were bad
in
the
kinde,
as
envie and fuch like, it
could
not be. And the Philofopher teacheth that
thefe
affet4ions abfolutely
confidered
are
neither
praife-
worthy
nor difcommendable; but
to be
angry
in
one manner
is
commended, to be angry
in
another
is
difprai-
fed. The
Scripture therefore
as it
condemned]
Lome
for anger,
fo
it
commendeth otherfome,
and fheweth
us
a
holy anger both publique
and private.
Motes
was juftly
angry,
Exod. t
t.
8. He went
out
from
Pharaoh very angry.
And
when he came
were
the
Hofl he
faw
the Calfe
and
the
daunting :
fo tiktofes
wrath
waxed hot. Numb. 16.
15.
He
was
very
angry for the murmurings
of
the people.
Eliah
is
commended
for
his zeale
to
God;
which
is
an
affeftion compounded
of
love to
God,
and
anger againfttha't
which difhonoureth God:
Phineas, Elihu
in
Lob:
Chrift
himfelfe,
Marke;.
5. He
looked
upon
them
angrily,
be.
So
in
private perfons,
as Lot in
Sodome,
His
foule war
vexed
with the
unclean
converfarion
of
the
wicked.And
the Apoftle,s
Cor.7.
rr.
Where
there
is a
godly furrow, there
is
a holy
indignation againtt finne
and
revenge.
Ttlis
being
fothatwe
mull be fpiritually angry, it may be
asked,
howwe
may difcerne
a fpirituall
anger
It
rifeth from
a
love
of
God
and
our neighbour, with
hatred
of
finne; thus
cMofes
his
anger did kindle
in
the
place above named.
2.
It
is
well
ordered, that is,
a.
It
doth not
rafhly arife in
us:
yet
we muff take heede
of
confounding
rafhly and
fuddenly; for
that
is
rafh which
hath no
juft
caufe;
now
loafer his
anger was fodaioe,but
not
raft],
becaufe
the
occafion wasfo grievous;
and this
doth
conforme our anger to Gods anger,
who is
flow
of
anger.
2.
It
mutt be duely proportioned to
the
fault; thus
God
is an-
gric
at
all finne,
yet idolatrie, tempting
God,
blafphe-
mie,oppreffron,ihedding innocent blood, &c.
his
fierce
wrath
is
powred out upon
fuch
hones.
Againe in regard
of
Perfons, wrath mull
goe
as
love
goeth,
it
beginneth
at
home,then
it goeth to
thofe who
are nee-
reft us, then further off
:
fo God
ftirreth more
quick-
ly
in
temporali correEtions
againft his owne houfhold
then thofe
that
are
without.
4.
Our wrath
and the accomplifhment
of
it muffbe within the
compaffe
of
our
calling
:
fo
(Moles
powdered the
calk
and