212 Rules "el helps tú Chriftiura meeknefJ'e, paihon; yea Inlay doe it better, and therefore I will do:- it then: If pail-ion do but flay a while,then it will be clari fed, It's 'true, anger is the whecftone of venue if it be done in a righ n»nner,but it i as it is in Phyfick,if the Gro(Se. be given is will do no good, but if it be clari. ed, then it may be of a great dealt of ufe, and fo it is with p -illìon: In the nin-h place, when thou feelel}thy pa lion begin to a- rife, tabour -to turne thy piton another way, uponfome other objet }, as thus; I fiele anger begin toarife ajainil my brother, or wife, or husband, or servant, now let me labour inliead of anger to exercife mourning, fuch a one hath difpleafed me, m wife or child or fervanr,before thou givell way to thine aner, get alone and bemoan-their fins thou fayeft they have done-ex- 0. reeding ill ; have they, then they have finned agiinl} God as- well as againft thee, and if fo, then take this rule before thou. iheweft any pallion, get alone, and mourne for their fin agiinf} God then come out and fee how thy pafpion will work after thy mourning for their fin, you would fnd this rule -of very great ufe, (if husbands and wives that have not liv'd quietly, or mafters in their familyes ) if you would but oblerve it , that when any thing is done amifs, if it be not fin-againft God, then there's no great matter to flirre your anger, but if it bath fin in it, then be Lure to mourne for ir. Firf} before God you let out- Your patlion, and fo turn anger into love Phyftians when they would flench blood that runs too much in one veine, they Peek to turne it into- another', and fo ihould we doe- with our affections, and that Chrif}ian- bath a great deale of skil, wifdome, and ftrength that is able to-turne his affe&ions: Now Ile exercife anger, and now Ile exercife love, and now Ile exerc e forrow, and now Ile exercife joy, and now Ile ex- ercife hope, fo that he is able to turne his atfeetions this way, and that way, if a-man be not able to turne his aff'eelions this way and thatway furely there is fotne dif }emper,but thi's is the excellency of a Chriftiän, hé bath command, over his a4e6li- om, he can turne them this way or that way : It's a good thing ha dealing with/children, when they are dogged or fullen, not to fall upon thein in a rage, but if you can turne their thoughts ._ to
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