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.pheJalnd,
Chap.4.
and
tooke vengeance,
but
it
was
within
compaffe
of
his
calling
,
for he was
a
Magiftrate
:
So
that
if
a
private
perron fhould reforme publique abufes and plead zeale
(unleffe
his
calling were extraordinary)
it
were carnali
fury, not holy zeale.
5.
It
mutt
Rand
with
love
of
thofe at
whom
we
are
angry,and
with the duty
ofprayers
:
So
r.Mofes
hee did love the
people notwithffanding his anger, and
did
pray that he
might rather be
Phut
outfrom Gods
favour , then they
fhould not be receivedto favour
;
and
Chrift with
his
anger,
mourned
in fpirit
for them with whom
he was
angry.
The
ufe
of
this to
us is,
that
we doe
nitre
up
our felves
to this holy
anger
:
Whofe
blood
lifer!)
at
the
fins
of
men
e
at feeing
the Lord
difhonoured
e
Wee
are
cold
as
ice this
way.
We
muff
bee angry at
our
fins,
we mutt hate
the
wayes
ofevill,
that God hateth, if we
love
the Lord
we mutt hate eviil.
z. It
is
to beobferved,
That
we
muß
take heed
of
finfull anger;
be not
angrie finfully,or
fin
not
in
being
angric.Now
then our anger
is
finfull,
when
as
pride,
and felfe-love
doth
caufe
it in us
:
As when men
are
altogether angric,becaufe they
are difgraced ,
wronged
,
receive
not
fuch meafure
as
they looke for
:
or
are
moved
becaufe
their minds
are
not
ferved
:
thus was good
David
angriest
Samar
6.thus was
good
Jonas
angric,
Jonah
4.9.
Secondly, when
our anger keepeth no due
bounds,
is
exceffive,
fuch was
the
anger of the
fons
of
Jacob
,
it
had
a
juft caufe
,
but they
knew no
meafure
in
revenge
:
Secondly, their difpleafure brake out
againftthe innocent
as
well
as
the guilty.
When it hindereth good duties,
breaketh off
love,
occafroneth
other
fins.
The
wrath
of
man accompliJheth not
the righteoufnefe
of
God.
And anger never goeth alone
,
if
it fray
with
us
;
When
Sarah
was
angry at
Abraham,fee
how
fhe
brake
to
offend againft
the
ninth
Com-
mandement,
by accufing
Ibraham
wrongfully,
and againft
the third
Cotnmandement,to
take
Gods
name
in
vaine
unadvifedly.
Now
this ferveth both to teach
us
to
difcerne
how
deepe
weare
in
finfull
anger,
and alto
to
be
a
ground
of
exhortation.
We
mutt there-
fore be
watchful'
againft this inordinate paflion ,
and muff
not
excufe
it,
as
if
it were our nature
to
be
haftie;If
I
be
borne with
a
little,!
have
done, I
love
notto beare hatred. It
is
well we love
not hatred, but
it
is
ill
we are
addiaed to
finfull anger.
And the
more wee
muff
arme
our
felves
againft this
fin
,
by how
much cuftome
in it
doth
make
it
lefl'efelt
and bewayled ,
by how
much our corrupt reafon will more
juftifie it in
us,
as
Jonas Paid; He
did
well
to
be
angry.
Little
fins
breed
us
more woe when they
are not felt and feared,
then great ones
when they
arc refitted.
f
ueII.
If
you
aske
how
we may preferveourfelves
e
Anfw.
By getting confcience
of
our owne defervings, forpride
Bbb
will
vff.
Doli.
We mulf
not
be
gnfully
Notes
of
fin-
full anger,
2.
Jam. 1.20.
Gen.c6.5.
Vfe.
Jonab
49
Manes
ro
prdvenc
fnfni!
anger.