Of the etsils that accompas.r v,iu anger. not be able by flight to prcuent a further mifchiefe : fo be indeuoring to make a pray of our bodies and foules, cloth firfi leeke toblind reafon, which is the eye of the foule, with the fury of pafíion , that fo not hauing judgement to difcerne his heights, nor wifdome to auoide them hce may the more eafilie lead vs into the p;t of perdition. Or hemay be likened to a cunning fflier-man, who trou- bleth thewater that the Hi maynot defcry his net : fo Sa- tan blindeth our reafon with this turbulent affctiiion, that wo fhould not difccrnc the fnnes which like nets he hath laid to inrangle vs, before we bec fallen into them . For .anger calling a mill ofperturbation before the fight of reafon , maketh men vnable to fudge of good or cuill, right or wrong ; and whereas reafon in it ovine nature judg- ed) that which is right anger maketh that feeure right which it judged). If therefore we auoide chofe things moi carefully which .hurt the eyes; or ifrhey behurt, vfe fuel)medicines asarc fit to cure them , becaufe the eye is the light and guideofthe whole body:withhowmuchmore attentiue careought weto auoide anger that blindeth reafon , Peeing it is the fight and guideofthefoule ?whichonlyeye ofhumane direction be- ingput out, likePolyphernawe wander in theMarts offm &wickedneffe. Ifmenabhorredrunk.ennefle(and that woo_ thily)becaufe it maketh themdiffer frombrute beaf}s onely in fhape of the body ; why fhould they not for the fame caufe hate this viceofanger,which like a burning ague doch fodificmper and diflurbe themind,that while thefit lafieth, it vctereth nothing but suing? g.Sett.8. Secondly, as angerhurteth the foule byblinding reafon, 2.It inflametb fo alb it doch macerate and vex it by inflaming it with fu- thefutile with rie ; for what greater torment can be imagined , then to the beat of haue the rainde di flraated vpon the racksof rage ?As they- 0 fsry, fore we would account him a madde man, whowith his owne hands lhould Pct his houfe on fire and confunie jr :ío alikemad is he to bee thought a whowill Pet his foule on fire with the raging flames of anger, wherein icis not one- ly tormented in this lifer but alto ( without repentance) in
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