The Conclufins of the Pe4tife, feare into defperate rage : So the angry man bceing fo hardly purfucd with (harpe inue&iues and bitter reprehen, fions, that hepathno euafionof excufe to couer his faulte nor hope of pity by confeffing it, doth as it were fly into the face of the reproucr , by obie6 ing his greater faults, chat theymay ferue to extenuate his which are leffe. You ( will he fay) who fo fharpely reproue me for my choller, haue ocher.taults as great as this, and thereforeyou maydo well to cure your felfe before you become anothersPhifi- tion. Yea in this you wouldPhew your felfe no more in- nocent, if you had the like occafion to (hew your anger. And howfoeuer you feeme in your conuerfation fwect and harmeleffe, yet he that fheuld talle you would not find you free fr6gaule,he that fhould handle you fomewhat roughly would Toone perceiue byhis owne finart that you haue a Bing, though you do not thrufl it out being not prouoked. In aword, the angry man will neuer crypeccassi, vnleffe af- terwards with force confidence hemayadds miferere; nei- ther will he fuffer his wounds to be cured by fuch an one, whoby his rough handling will morevexe him, then plea- lure himbythe cure. 7bttorcdreiron And fomuch for the remedies and medicineswhich we are to vfe for the curing of anger, either in our felues m- others , which I would with eucry one who finde them (clues fubie& to this vnruly paffion,carefully to applyvn- to themfelues :for as it will not benefit a ficke manto reade his Phifitions prefcript, or to carry the. medicine in his poc- ket, vnleffe he take and receiue it according to his dire6ti- on : fo will this Phifike of the foule little auaile for the. curing of anger, vnleffe it be applied to the heart, and confcience. But fetingwe arenot able fo much as once z.Cor,; to thinke a good thought, as of our felues, but it is God PhiL213, onely which worketh in vs both the will and the deede : let vs intreate the Lord who is the onely true Phifition, that hewill not only vouchfafe to annoint the blinde ties of
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