rerfet . PROVERBS. i7 what is the fittef ("carom to begin it, euen in their childhood. Now in this he admonifheth euery man to take heede that he narre it not, or hinder the good of ci thereof by his owne dif}emper. And therefore it is faid, Being ingreat wrath, when thouart in anangrie moode,and burnefj with furie,and hot dif- pleafure, remit thepunifkwent, letpa tie for that time thepunifh- ment ofthepartie off nding. Butifthou let himefcape,yet.tpplie chartifementazaine. Neuertheleli , though for that time, and perhaps for that fault thou let him goe free, yet kaue himnot fotohimfelfe, nor fuffer him to goe on í}i11 vnpunifhcd, but when thou art morecal me, and as occafion fhalbe offered, take him in hand, and chafIifehim. ¶ Corre9ion is neither to be giuen in patfion, nor omitted Doe. remiifely. It is unfit to fecke redretTe of-other mens faults, by committing as greatourfelues: or altogether todifpence with, and patTe oucr their offences to the hurt oftheir foules, be. caufe it feemeth our felues are ouer -carried with corruptions. Both thefe archurtfüll extremities, but I will infili efpecially vpon the former, becaufc theperil! ofneglec`ingpunilhuaent appeared by the former fenten:e, and other places of this booke.To the poynt therefore in hand, S. ¡amps fpeakethper- tinently, though not particularly, whenhe faith, The Iam,1.2o; man,doth not execute the ri:zhteoufnes ofGo.d,whiich euery one that infliftcth any puniflimentvpon another,oughttodot. When Nùm,so.t the troublefome I /raelites had driven Mo/es that meeke 1er- uant ofGod into a paflion, byvexingofhis fpirit, euenhe,for the time was not incafe, Co much as to repreh°nd them in that PC I°64 manneras became him, but fpakc vnaduifèdlywith his lippes, both in rating ofthem, andnegleaing tofanc4ifiethe Lord. And yeeld that Dauid might warrantably haue proceeded a» 1.Sann,2Ç. gain(} TTiball for his vnthankfull, churlifh, infolent, and con- temptible behauiour, yet what worke would hehaue made in his rage, when for one mans fault he wattefolued to inurther a whole familie ? Firfi, a man in his di(iemper can hardly keepe meafure in Re tf,,,m, punifhing,as theexain:Ac laf} produceddothwitnethe,but (hall by the fore i}name of his anger, be carriedto thepraclife of L 3 violence,
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