ereme' rea o vnr not how (mall thecaufe iswhich infiamcth angcr,for if the mmdc which receiucth it be Çubie to be inflamed, it isfuf- ficient to fet on fire and confume whole K°'ngdomes and Common-wealths , efpecially if power be correfpondentto the violence ofthe affcetion. Infinite examples might be brought to make this mani- Exárnpies, fell : as ofSimeonand Leuie, who in their anger put a whole Gen.34. Citie to the Cword , though their quarrcll were but to one . Iud man . OfAbimelech, who in his fury dcflroied all the City g 9. ofSichem; ofSaul defiroving Nob ; ofHaman whobeing He(i® ;, incen fed onely againG v`1'fordecay, laide aplot for the de- frtirc`%ion of the whole nation of theIewes , But I fhall not need to Elandvpon it, feeing not onely the bookeof God, but alto ancient hiiories , ycaeuen our owne Chronicles and dailycxperience,doe make this but too cuident. You fee then the manifold culls which waite vpon this raging &(cale of the minde,vniufl anger; for it is not onely a deadly impoflume breaking out inour (clues, but alfoan infeciousand contagious plague, which detlroieth whole peoples andcommon-wcalths. With howgreat care there- fore fhould we vie all good mcancs and wholelome reme- dies,to preuent or curefuch adangerousdifeafe ? CHAT. VII. The remedier ofvninff anger. He remedies againII anger are of two forts : firtl,thofe s.Sei.t. I whichcure anger in our fel ties ; fecondly, thole which cure it inothers; and they both areof two kindes : fira,Cuch as preuent anger and preferue vs from falling into it: fecondly, fuch as free vs from it after it bath taken place. Foranger is a difeale of themi lade : as therefore wife Phyfi- tions thinke it the better and fafer courfe to preferuehealth andpreuent Gckneife, then to remooue the auk after it á bath
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