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E'pheflatu,
Chap.4.
V
E
a.26.
Galat.ó.r.
Luke
23.34.
Socrates.
Senecade
ira.
Prov.af.tg.
Doli'.
We
mull nor
let
anger lodge
with us.
1Sam:13=3
will make frayes
of
nothing
,
butpovertie of fpirit will wichfland
an-
ger,
in
remembringwhat
wee are
and
may bee , will
cook
choler.
Tit.
3.3.
Spew
all
meekeneffe
towards all,
for
we
our
'lives
were femetime
foolifh, difobedient, deceived,
[crying divers
lulls,
&c.
if
any
bee
fallen
through
weakneffe,ye
which are
reflore
Tuch
a
one
with
the
¡Jirit
ofineekeneffe,
cenftdering thou
thy felfe maiill
be
tempted.
2.
Confider the thing that moveth us,
as in
regard
of
the
partie,
fo
in
regard
ofGod,
both
inflit.
ing
it
on
us, and
ordering
it
for
us
:
As
it
commeth
from
the partie,
itis a
fit
ofphrenfre
in
him
;
for
every one
is
out of himfelfe fo far
as
hee
wrongeth
his
neighbour
:
Now
this
weighed will
incline
to
meekeneffe,
Fatherforgive
them,
they
knownot
what
they doe.
á.
As
God doth bring
it
upon
us,
it
is
moll init.
3.
As he doth
or-
der
it for our
good,
it
is
moftamiable.
For the
wicked are
like Bees,
they do fting,but yet
yecld honey allo
:
In one regard
they
are reque-
fled, though
in
another not to be brooked.
3.
To
fupprefl'e
anger,
it
is
good when we
feele
it comming
onus,
to
binde the whole man
to thegood abearing; for
as
it
is
with flames,
if
they
have no vent,
they
foone goe forth
:
fo
this
flame ,
if
it
have
no where
iffue,
will foone be extinguifhed
;
hitherwe
muff recall that
praéîice
of
David, Pfal.39.t. Though
hee could
not hold
it out fo
happily
as
he
began
it
holily. And the
counfcll given
to
L4ugufus,
to
tell the greek
letters; and
the
faying
of
the Heathen Philofopher,
i
would
beate
thee, but
that
I
am
angrie.
4.
We
muff take
heed ofoccafions
:
the
Heathens have
been
wife
in this
behalte,
as
ca
far, he
of
whom
Plutarch
telleth, that
broke the
glafí'es :
Abraham
with
Lot.
Wee
mull not come
in
the
company of
angry men,
flint ffriking
on
flint,
will bring
forth
fire
;
Whereas a
foft
ffeken perfon breaketh the
bone
,
as
it
may bee
Solomon
fpake
horn
re-
membring
his
Father enraged,
and Abigail.
Laffly, we
mutt take occafion by anger, to
be
angry
at
our
inordi-
nate
affet
ìion,to
be
make
and
gentle,and
this
is
to
kill
the
devil! with
his
owne weapon.
The third thing,
Though
we
cannot alwayes refill there pallions
from
entring,
yet
we
mull
not
let them
lodge
with
ces.
Wee
mull not
let anger
a head
in
us,and
grow
upon
us :
This Chriflians through Gods
grace may
and
doe attaine to.
Wee
mull not, though
we
be
touchie
fometime, be either bitterly
or
heavily difpofed
:
this
bitter
and
fad
anger that
will dwell till it have revenge,
is
deteffable with God.And
looke
at
the
Saints,
they
have beetle angrie, but
not
continued
it.
Da-
vid,
r
Sam. 25.
3r,
32.blefï'ed
God,
and brake
off
difpleafure at
the
fpeech
of
Abigail : So gen.
31.35.
Iacob
was
angrieand
chid with
La-
ban,
but
he
was friends
prefendy after: whereasthe
wicked, they
like
Li
bfolom,
will yeare after yeare
,
carry anger
in
their bofomes,
and
never forgive
till they
have revenge.
Anger burneth
like
fire
in iron,
or
fuch folid
matter
, in
the wicked
:
but it
is
like
fire
in
fnow,
or
thornes,
in
the godly,
Toone
kindled,
Toone
extinct.
This