Wherein mee%zeffe confsffr. 8t needs mutt : why fo violent ? why fo fierce, why fo cruell in anger ? as many they know not howto be angry, but they muff be mad. But now one that bath a meek ïpirir, 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 ram. angry for. And then the fifth is, The ground from whence anger a: ifes,, The groind it is from pride in your hearts,or from Tome other lift, or from weaknei3e, but now meekneife of í ,irit than döth fo much moderate anger, that wvhenfoever 1. am awry; it dial!. not be from my pride, nor lusts, nor weakueffe: ihus.meek- nefie moderates anger. And then the effeas of anger, O the, wofull evil!. etfe &s that come from the anger ofmen and women, what aas of fin is there committed in one hour, When you givewa, to pa`fions there's more fin committed fometimes 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 mayeít.do that in one day, that it may be. may caufe thee to repent all thy life after-,6 finis multiplyed almoft infinitely when we come to a paffion ; paífion and anger doth beate the lufts that are in the hearts of men and women,: and therefore they are very active in their fin in the time of a palfion, as Mofes when when he came down in his holy zealehe broke both the tables on which the Law was written,fö we may fay, that people in their finfull paffion, they, breake both the tables of the Law,by their wofül difiempers, and finfu! actions ; what reviling fpeeches, what revengefull thoughts,what words and defperate refolutions are there in the time of anger, but now where there is meeknefs in theheart, it pulls. anger backe, and will not fuller it to proceed in any finfull effeas, nay, faith meeknefl'e, what bath the Lord given me this affe6uion inmy feule for, isit not for his glory, what is it for the producing of fuch bate and finfull effedts as thefe are ? the Lord forbid it : the evil of anger :0 remember in the days of your humiliation, to be humbled for the wonderful Wicked areas of your finfull danger,. and you that ham mater to humble your fouls before God:'
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