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V
s
x.31.
Ephefians,
Chap.
4.
In whole two things
muff
be
marked,
z.
The
thingsto be avoided.
2.
The
meafure,bitterneffe, afbitterneffe.
T.
Then
wee
fee ;
That
all
true
chriflians
mug
avoid
bitterneffe. Be-
Doaá.
fore we
can
dchort from
it, we muff know
what
it
is.
nirtcrnefre
is
For anfwer;
It
is a
fmothered
difpleafure
of
which one will not be
r°
be
avoided
knowne,
that
maketh
a
man
a
burthen to himfelfe
and
others,
till it
WhatIt
be
digcffted
:
for this wrath
is
fuller
ofdi(content
then revenge, and
it
is a
fret
that
ranckles
inwardly;
we will not be
known of
the
caufe,
often; It
is
fome matter
that
we
cannot mend our
(elves
in,often fome
frith thing
we are afhamed
to
be
knowne
of
it,
it
is
fo unjuft
a
caufe
of
moving us, and this maketh
the other, the
tedioufneffe
of
it,
for
a
fire
when it bath no vent mull
needs
be violent.
We
therefore that
are
Chrifls,
mull be
afhamed
to
thinke
how it
trp,
hath beene fometime with
us,
when
our foules have
been
full
of
bit:
Bade
.efts
of
terneffe, and wee have
gone with fecret difpleafure champing
on
the
it
tr, us.
bridle , eating our owne
livers,
looking
on our deareft friends fo
fowre
and
malecontent,
being
implacable: For this birterneffe, the
more
a
man would with gentleneffe overcome
it,
the
more
it
will
burne fometime,
like
as
lime
doth with water;
When
all our behavi-
ours have
tailed
of
the
gall
of
bitterneffe.
For
as in
the
Jaundife,all the
skinne
is
coloured when the gall overfloweth
:
fo
all
our
looker
re-
ceive
a
tia
lure when
this bitterneffe
doth deeply
poffeffe
us.
All mutt
avoid
this,
efpecially husbands
to
wives.
Husbands love your
wives,
Co!.
.3
and
be
not
bitter
to
them;
there
is
bitterneffe
in
a
more large fenfe.
The
next
word [wrath
or fierceneffe]
noteth
an impetuous anger
whar
wrsrh
or
that
is
headily carried, not
hidden,
as
the
firft,
but
manifcft, foone up,
soruoffo
¡s,
foone allayed,
for it
is
too
violent
to hold. This
men
of
hot
blood
are
fubjedì:
to,
and
they
thinke
it
the
leffer, becaufe
it is
but
a
brunt, they
have foone
done,
and are
forry for
it
after
:
But
take heede
how that
hellilh
fire
kindleth, for it endangereth the whole
Rate
of
a man
:
It
is
a
phrenfie for
the
time; where were we
if
God
fhould
not
keepe
us!
The
third
is[anger]fct
upon defire
of
revenge
;
but
of
thefe
before;
Doíf.
and
Clamour:
mark
then,
How
theregoeth
difirder
in
words
with difor-
D
;rordaed
words will
go:
dered
affetìons;
and
how
we muff avoid
the
one
as
well
as
the other.
w,rh difordcred
For
as fire
kindled here
or there will
fatten upon the
next things
unto
affe@
ions.
it,
if
they
are
combuftible: So this
fire
of
hell
burning
in
the heart
will
fallen on the tongue
&
hand,if
it
be not more timely quenched; More
particularly loud clamours
and unfeemly elevating
the
voice ,
is
a
companion
ofanger.
When
Lamech
was
angry we
fee
how
he did
Gen.4.z
3,14.
take
on and
breath
out loud
menaces
prefently to
kill and
flay:
So the
Jews, when
by
Pilats fa& waffling his
hands,their galled
Cnfciences
were
furred, they
cryed,
Cruci¡
Jy
crucify
him,
him:
So Pauls
enemies:
Mat.nr.z;.'
AGts
115,4.
So the
Ephefiano
angry
at
Demetrius his
fuggeftion
cryed,
Great
is
Dia-
naofthe
Ephefians: So AEts
-7.3.
Stephens
enemies
cried
aloud
and
ran
on
him. And this
is
it we mull
Tike
heed of.
We
muff
not when
we
are
angry
ufe any
inordinate fpeeches
:
but
efpecially
we
muff take heed
o