3 2 The eatsfes ofvniufi A er. caufe they thinkc that the beautyofothersperfe&ion; cau- feth the deformity of their vices to feeme morevgly, and that their degenerated natures are become like vntoSatans, Examples. who hateth vertue becaufe it is vertue. An example hereof we haue in Caine,whofe anger was kindled againft his bro- ther, becaufe he was accepted h Gods fight , as beeing more holy then himfelfe,Gen,4, S. As alto in Saul who was Gen4, S incenfed agaiufl Jonathan, for his vertuous demeanor to- wards Dauid,I.Sam.2o.3o. InAfa whowas offended with the Prophet, the Ambaffadourof the Lord, for deliuering faithfully that ambaffage which the Lord had put in his 2,Chro,16, t o mouth, 2.Chron. i6.1o. In Nebuchadnez.z,er, whowas en- raged againft the three Children becaufe they refuted to Dan. ,t commit Idolatry, Dan. 3. 13. And in the Iewes who were 3 3 filled with wrath, becaufe our Sauiour Chr-ift made a true expofition of the Scriptures , and rightly applied it vnto uk.4,28, them, Luk.4.28. And too many examples we haue in thefe claies, of fuch as cannot with any patience indure to heare their duties taught them, and their vices publikly reproued out ofGods word,oryet anyprivate admonition, but they are ready (like thofe that are in a raging fit of a burning a- gue) to defpight the Phifition that endeauoureth to cure them. So that in our times he is like to incurre more anger, yea, anddanger allo that reproueth finne,then he that coin- mitteth fin ; he that reprehendeth Atheiihieand-prophane- neffe, thenhe that liueth in them. Yea, fo defperate is the difeafe of this decliningage, furfeited with finne, that the Phifition may foonerincurhurt anddammage by the fury of his patient, then the patient helpe and health by the skill of the morl exquifite Phifition. Sea.2. Secondly,the caufe ofouranger is vniuft,when it is only when 1*, ecdufe imaginary hawing noother ground but our ovine fufpition. "`"P"' And thus :vas Vial. angry,withhis brother Da.xid. becaufe he fufpe&ed him to be proud, whereas in truth his ovine xSarn.17. 28 pride v% as the caufe of his fufpition , t. Sates, i . and this is the molt common caufe of Anger In the Jr
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