Rules and helps to rhrifhan° meel¿neffe to fomething elfe, you have difpleated them in one thing, do- not be grating upon them in that one thing, but fee if you can tutne themtobethiuking or looking after come other thing, and by- that you thaltget them fooner -out of their fullen mood: then by oppofmg it : to it is with our felves many times there is a- fùllen dogged froward moode upon our hearts, now the way perhaps will not be to oppofe direeUly that fullennetfe of. our hearts, but the way will be to have force objea before us to turne the ifreame of the heart to Tenthly,_ Another rule to help againtl againfl anger it's this,. do not multiply words; take heed in froward pail-ion: that, words be not multiplyed In the X Pro! 13.. v: & in the 5 of Match: 2, a. v: divers :Scriptures I might thew that the multi- plying of words is -very dangerous in time of pa(íion,:and efpe- cially to wive liberty to wild fpeech : words are winde, I but: they are that winde that blówes up this fire to a mighty here, In the 7 Pro: s t. ver: it's raid of the whore that floe z' loud,'tis a moll unbefeeming thing for women (though they be provok'r by anger) to be loud in fpeech, to be loud in their words, and to multiply their words: The whori±h woman is described by.. that the is loud, and therefore thole that would behave them - felves as Matrons in fobriety and modefty, take heed of loud fpeeches = --- and then of.adding word to word, the belt way is rather to be filent, rather to turne away, as we read of David: when he had to deale wiih his froward Brethren, in the s Sam: 17. He turned away from t Jem and rv..uld an jiver no mire : -- T confetfe to Anne away in a fullen manner that's not good nei- ther, but to give a fegentle fpeeches and then to turn away, to turne away without anyanfwer that may provoke as much; but firft toagive force gentle an wer and then to turn away, and refólve not to multiply words at fuch a time as this is : That's, anotherru °. Eleventhly,- If you would not be pafironate, :but. of meek. aid quiet fpirits,' ~take heed of patting your, felves "into téá much bufinefle that God calls you nix-unto; and: the reafon: this, becaufe there is nobufneffe but .will -have iorm:what or other ro fall croií'e,,therefore befuse to be about nothingbut whzt z'ì3'
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