Illo Wherein meeknefe confzf>ts. when you come to heare the word; O rig a dangerous thing to give way to palliion at any rime,but efpecially upon a Lords day, if you be put into a pa(3ìon then a ten to one but you Toole the S.abbath:for then your thoughts.are róling about the wrong that is done to you, and about thoughts of revenge, and th:n you will manifest your difplcafure, but now meekriefle doth moderate anger, to-give one power over ones anger fo- as it thall not be unfeafonáble. And then thirdly, Meckneff doth moderate anger hire-. f, e& of the laflingneife of it, that it (hall not ball longer them it ought to doe; many mens and womens anger is like -he fire of hell, being once kindled it's never quencht, it's unquencha- ble as the fire of hell is ; their dog dayes do continue all the yeare long. You fhaii have tome men and women if any thing have fallen out in their familyes, and they be got in,o a lit of paflîon,you(hall have them continue-day af-er day in that fit of pafhon, fo that fometimes even man and wife will not fpeake- one to another in two or three dayes, this finft 11, this far from meekneife If thou hadllthis grace ofmeekneffe, it would fay to anger, 7 -ire farre fhall you go ahel no further,as you -can raif it-up when you fee caufe, fo -you can keep it down too: but ma- ny times -you know the wind railes, up the waves of the Sea, and when the winds are down, yet the waves of the Sea they are all in a broyl, and do mightily rife flill,and are very boi(ie- rous though the winds are down fo 'ti: with many, though the caufe of their-anger be rak.n away, yet their anger having' been raifed'they are not able to ove :come themLIves,It's jull with men and women here,.as with your ckildren, if once they be difpleafed, put them into á-- cry, and though you give then! the thing that they would have, yet they cannot overcome themfelves preferitly,- fo it is with many, they are not lolling in other things, but in their anger there they lail, in; any good motion for God, there they are fckell and unconflanr, but tbeii; pallion that holds. Now meekneff it doth moderate anger in regard of the continuance of it. Fourthly, Meekneßë doth moderate anger in refpe& of the meafure of:it, why if .I be angry, I will be angry no more then` needs.
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