The properties of vniuft anger. 37 examples which before I rehcarfed.But ifwe will beChrifls Drfciplcs,Wee mutt follow his do-`trine and example. His doclrine,Math.5.4 z .Lone), our cnerclies,dûegood to thole that Matth.5.41, hateyou, d-c. Thatyou may be theTonnes o1 yortrfather which is in heaven. Where heplainly intimateth, that they are not the Tonnes ofGod , who doe not loue the perfons of their verie enemies : vve mutt follow alfo his example, who pray- . èd for his enemies cuê while be was vpon the croflc titbieA to their outragions injuries: Luk.z 3. s.4.\Which bleffed pre- LukZ; fident holyStephen imitated. J .7.66. A&.7.66. But many are not onely inccnfed againfl the perlons of their enemies who are men like vnto themfelues, but alto with brute beatts, which are not capable theceot, as -v.ce may fee in the exampleofBalaam,Num. 24. to. Yea euen Num24.io. with things which want both fenfe and life : and fo was Xerxes angry witithe ricers, and fent letters full ofmena- Plutarch. de cing threatnings to the hits. And manie fuch are fubiea to cubib.iracufF continual) view , who if any thing in their hands difpleafe them , will not Rieke to dafh it againfi the ground, though after, they are faine to take it vp againe : or to fpoile and breake it in pecces,though afterwards they mull be glad to bellow great labour in repairing that which by greater fol- ly they haue defaced.But thefe men may fitlybee compared veto childret,who having gotten a fall beate the earth; fo they hawing recciucd fome hurt through their ovine folly or ncgligencc,arc angrywiththofc things which arc ruled by them as bare infiruments. Sept. {. The lafl propertie of vniutt anger refpeicth the time §. y when as it being long retained becommeth hatred. And this happcncth not onely when men arc provoked unto an- ger vpon waightie calf-es , but alto when it is grounded oit the moll flight occafions; for when vaine trifles haue ftirred thë vp to wrath they perfeuere in it, left theymight fcem to haue begun without caufe,and fo againfi all reafó thevniu- Rice of their anger makes thë pertíl in it with greater ob- ílinacie.For therefore they retaine it ,yea increafe it,that the greatneife of their anger may make men beleeue that it could not chufe,but.arife from fomewaightic occation and F
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