t Je en was requeRed by him that bee would leaue bchindehim Nava, is Tome good inarulion, for the well gouerniug of his Em- AAo;b.g. pire : to whom hegaue this counfell, that he mould do no- thing inhis anger, before he had numbred on his fingers the lettets of the Greeke Alphabet. An example hereof We haue inSocrates, who findinghis anger inceníed againft Senec,dc ira, his feruant, deferred to take corree ion, Paying : I mould l G.t.cap, r s beat thee if I werenot angry. And alto inPlato, who being prouoked to anger by tome notable fault committed byhis feruant,tooke a cudgellinto his hands, andheld it ouer hint a good fpace,as if he would haue aroken : andbeing asked ofhis friendSpera(ippuw,what hemeant by fuch kind ofacti- on. O (faid he) Exigopcenas ab homine iracundo. I take pu- ire. nifhment of one who is angry meaning of himfelfe, by 3 P gY bridling his affeaion. If then the heathen could thus defer 1119, ca , a and curbe in their vnruly paffions : whohad onely the fmall glimpfe ofnatures light, andheathen Philofophy to dire t them ; let vs beafhamed to come behind them, íeeing we haue not onely that, but alto thebright funne-thineof the word of God co guide vs. And that we may the rather be moued toabftaine from fodaine and defperate refolutions when our anger is prouo- ked,let vs confider that we are in great danger to doe thofe things in a moment, whichwe (hall repent our whole life; for Ira breursfuror, Anger is a fhortmadneffe. That in fuch (hortneffe of timewe cannot rightly examine the circum- ftances ofthe matter,which in fuch cafes aremoamateriall, whereasveritatem diesaperiet,truth is the daughter oftime, and will bring all to light. jcquid voler goale fit feire Senec.defm temperi trade. Nihil diligenter tnfuaucernitur. Whatfoe. 41'.344P.1 7- suer thou wouldeft be perfeUly informed of, commit it to time, for nothing is throughly knowne on the fodaine. That it is a foule mame, ftrft to be angry,and then to iudge, ftrít to take punifhment, and then to examine the cauCe; that is to fay,wh ether bathoffended, he that taketh punifh- snent, or he on whom it is inflicted : whereas inproceffe of j, time
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