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Wherein
meelZzeffe
confifr.
18i
needs
muff
:
why
fo
violent
?
why fo
fierce,
why
fo
cruell in
anger
?
as
many
they
know
not howto be
angry,
but they mull
be mad. But
now one
that
bath a
meek
tpiir,
he may
be
angry
fometimes,
I
but
his
meekneffe will meafure out
his
anger,
fo
much
anger and
no
more, after
the
proportion to
that
that
I
ant.
angry
for.
And
then the
fifth
is,
The ground
from whence anger arifes,,
The
g::otd
it
is
front
pride
in your
hearts,or from
tome ocher
lift,
or from
weakneiìe, but
now
meekni1e
of
ípirit
that
doth
fo much
moderate
anger,
that
wheníoever
I.
am angry;
it
íe,:111`
nor be from my
pride,
nor lulls, nor weaknef
e:
Thús.meck-
nehe moderates
anger.
And
then the
effects
of anger, O the
wofull evill
effeerts
that
come
from
the
anger
of
men
and women,
what-
aets
of
fin
is
there committed
in
one
hour, when
you
give
wall
to
paons
there's
more
fin
committed
fomeçimes by
a
man or woman in
one
day
when
they
are
in
a
froward
pettifh
humor,
then
by
others that
are
in
a
meeke quiet humour
for
a
year, yea
it
may
be
all
their
lives
:
thou mayefl..do
that
in one
day,
tha:
it
may
be
may caufe
thee
to
repent
all
thy life
after-,6 fin
is
muftiplyed
almoft
inf
nicely
when we come
to
a
paflion
;
pailïon
and
anger
doth
heate the
lulls that are
in
the hearts
of
men
and
women,,
and
therefore they
are
very
wive
in
their
fin
in
the time of
a
pailion,
as
Mofeswhen when
he came down
iii
his
holy
zeale he
broke both the
tables
on
which
the
Law
was
written,fo
we may
fay, that people
in
their
finfüIl
pation, they
breake both
the
tables of
the Law,by
their
woftil
diftempers,
and (inful
acitions
what reviling
leeches,
what revengefull thoughts,whar
Words
and
defperare refolutions are there
in
the
time of
anger,
but
now where
there
is
meeknefs in
the
heart,
it
pulls
angerbacke,
and will
not
filer
it to proceed
in
any finfull
of
eels,
nay,
faith
meekneffe,
what bath
the Lord given me this affection
in
my
feule for,
isit not
for
his
glory,
what
is
it
for
the producing, of
fuch bafe and finfull effedts
as
thefe are
?
the
Lord
forbid
:
the
evil of anger!O remember in the
days
of
your humiliation,
to
be
humbled for the wonderful wicked
elf&
of
your finfull
danger, and
you
that
ham ma'
ter
to
humble
your
fouls
beföre
God:.