So Ofthe meaner to cure Angerinothere. all reafon. And therefore they arc to be admonifhed when the fury bath fotnewhat fpcnt it felfe, and the great culls of anger both in refpc61 of their foules and bodies, their neighborsand friends, the Church and Common -wealth, are as it were in one view, tobe prefented to theirmore fo- ber meditations. hüldnej°e re. 'But they who admonifh are toremember, that they vfe gsirediKad- all mildeneffe and difcretion in their admonition, leafs tnottif inZan while theygo about topreuenr anger for the time to come, brï m 't' theyprefentlyprouoke it. For if they be too auflere and rough, in vfing too infolent inueciiues andbitter reprehcn- fions, they doenot only commit themfclues a great abfur- dity, while inreprouing anger they (hew their own fpleen, but ado make their admonition altogether vnprofitable. Bccaufe the angry man (if he fee them fo (harpand feuere) will rather thinke how hee may defend hisfault by aggra- uating the injuries whichhehathreceiued, then either con- fefle it, to fuch a cynicke cenfurer, or labour to amend it. For asno manwill fuffer his wound to be fearched byfuck a chirurgion as hatha rough hand, and a hard heart, neither will anypatient commit himfelfe to the cure of a froward andmercileffe Phifition .: fo no man can abide (and there- fore much lef e an angry man) to hauehis gauled faultes too much rubbed,or the wounds and difcafes ofhis mindc, healed and cured, with too fharpe a corrafiue andlothfome potionof infolent and bitterwords. They therefore who will angerly reprooue anger, are no fit Phifitions for them who are Cubic&to thispaffìon. For to fuch theywill either hide and diffemble their imperfe.`}ions, rather fayning themfelues well, then they will difcouer their difeafe to fuch a crabbed PhiGtion ; or elfe they will iufiifie and de- fend them as lawful' and neceffary. And as the fearefull Snake, when he bath no meaues to flee away, will turne againe,and defperately leape into the face of him that pur- fuethhim : or as the rimerons Stagge, when he can efcape no longer by running, maketh a f}aud, turning cowardly feare
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