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208.
Rules
and
helps
to
Chrifiia.n
meek:4ejf
é,
vor,
take
the
feavor
at the
beginning
There
havebeen,molt
.fearfull diftempers
of
paffion rifen from
very
fmall beginnings,
which have broken out
to moft
fearful
out-rages.As
I
remem
ber
in
the
hiflory of
Veniee,
I
have
read
of
two
Sons
of
the
Duke
of
Florence,
that havingbeen
a
hunting,
there
was
con-
-tlon
about
which
oftheir
dogs
killed the Hare,
faith one, my
dog caught
it
first, and the
other,
no, but.
it
was
mine,
and
io
they
continued till one
drew
the fword upon;
the
ocher and
fo
flew
his
brother,
and
the brothers
man
that
was
thine,
teeing
his
matter flaine, he
drawes upon
the other brother
and
kills
and.fo
the
Duke
bofes
two
of
his ions
at the
fame time
upon
that
occafion.
How often is.it
in
your famîlyes,
that a.little
fparke, what
a
fire
Both
it
kindle;
at
the_firft
there
may
be
but
a
word
fpoken
amifs,
that might
eafily
have
been pall over, no,
but
that
word
begets another,
and
that word begets
another,
and
that
begets
yet
another, and'fo:it
groves
to
a.molt
hideous
flame, take
heed
of the
beginning of
palon
:
when
ever
any
anger
begins
to
arife
in
the
family, or
inyour
fouls,
O 'tis
time
for
you
then
to
look
to
your
felves, fometimes
you
thall
have friends
that
at
first first
their
fallings out begins
but
in
the very counte-
nance,
one.man thinks, furely
fu.ch
a
one
looks
not
upon me
with
fuch
a
pleafant countenance
as
he
was
wont,
to
do,and
from
thence
he begins
to
have furmifes and fufpicions,
and
then
.comes
to
make
misinterpretations,
and
from
thence
there
comes
aftrangeneflé;and
from
being ftrange,they begin
to
hear-
ken
to
tales
thatare
carryed
one againil
another,and to
beleeve
them,
and
to
aggravate
their,
and
then they begin to
fpea'.ke
fome,hard
words
one
againft
another, and
they
begin to
doe
fume ill
offices one againft 'another,
and
then
break out
into
vi-
olent
and
eminent contention
and aetings one againft
another,
'whereas
had
there been but
care taken at the
beginning,all
this
might
have been
p
evented,
Pro:
14,
14.
The
begtanmg of
flri
fe
is as
when
one
letteth
wrçt
witter,therefore leave of
contention
before
it
ée medled
with.
Takeheed
of
the
beginnings
of
fin,
if
fo
be that
you
would
keep
your fpirits
in
any
meek
and quiet
frame.
Then