The eanfeJ ofvxiug. Anger 31 experienceof thole manifoldcuils which followed creduli- ty and Mining after tale-bearers, he profefleth that he will defiroy himthat priuilyflanderethhis neighbour, Pfal. TOT. Hal.WI. 5.7. 5.7. And hence it is that lamescoinpareth the tongue to a fire, becaufe nothing more inflameth the hart to furiousan- Iam.3.6. ger, Iames 3.6. The loll internal' caufe of vniufi anger, is want ofmedi- SeEi.i o. tation concerning the common imperfections, whereunto The caul we are all by nature fubie t : for if we didbut confider that want ofmedí- tatlon cancer+ in many things we offend all, and that wee ourfelues haue ningbimane the fame faults, or greater then thofe whichwee efpie in o- infirmities. thers,wewouldnot hafiily be moued to chollervponeuery trifling occafion. But it is the cufiomeof men addio`led to anger, to imitate the Lamite, who (as the Poets faine) vfe their Gies abroad,and put them into a boxwhen they come home: fo thofe are but too quick-lighted abroad in fpying the faults ofothers, but fiarkeblind at home in difcerning their owne faults ; and though they hauea great beame in their owneeies, yet theycan cafly difcerne a fmall mote in the eieof another. And the reafon is,becaufe theyput their owne faults into that part of the wallet which theycafi be- hind theirbacks,and therefore neuerlooke vpon them, but the faultes of others into that part which hangeth before them,whereinto they are alwaies curioufly prying. CHAP. III. rite external'caufesof vniufÈ Anger. INN D fo much for the internall caufesof vniu1i anger : Seff.T. nowwe arc to fpcake of the external' ; by which I vn- s. Vcrtaaus a- dcrftand all outward occafions which are vniuflly taken, as eons and de- firfi, when we are angry with our neighbor for his vertuous meanoar. ac`lions.For Tome there arcwhole malignant eies doe abhor nothing more then thebright beamcs ofvertue, either be- E 3 caufe
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