The remedies is expellerbridle Niger. 71 that they will containe their fury for one day, whatfoeuer occafion fball be offered, and after that another, and a third, and Co by little and little they (hall amine vntoan habit of patience, and cuaotnewill alter nature. CHAP. IX. The remedies to expel orbridle Anger. ANd fo much for thole meanes and remedies, whereby sea we may prcuent and repel( anger,before we fall into it. Now in the next place I will fet downe, howweare tobe- haue our [clues after that anger bath made an entrance,and taken place in vs. And this theApoflle tcacheth vs in the re- firaint : Let not theSlonegee downe onyoxrwrath . That is, ifthrough infirmity yce fall into vniuft anger, yet continue not in it, but rather abandon this corrupt affcaion with all polible[peed. So thatour anger mua not fleepe withvs, and after we awake , awake alto; we mua not vfe it likeour garments, lay it alide ouernight , with a purpofe to take it a- gaine the next day : but rather wee are to put itofflike the old man, with full refolution neuer againe to entertaineor allume it, or like force polluted ragges which arenot worth the wearing . And this mua wee doe not once or twife, but if eueryday with the Sunnc anger arife in our hearts, weareeueryday to dillodge and expel it , before theSunne going downe . And as the night doth cook the heate which in the day time the Sunne hath made ; fo mua it alto quench the flames of anger kindled in our hearts. rbedanger of And not without great reafon hee requireth that before anger,anissd night commeth we abandon anger , for othetwife we fhal giucplace to the ditiels tentations, as he intimateth in the words following : for hauing exhorted vs not to let theSun goe downe, on our wrath, he prefentlyaddcth, neithergiue place to the Ditsell. Noting thereby that theywho doe not K 3 only.
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