The deceit Al /ee of M,sn,r heart. Z89 not it whichangred David. For then how came it to paffe that his anger provoked him to fweare, to conceive a bloody purpofe of murther? Grace be- gets not finne, but holds back from finne. Grace is never a paire of bellowes,to blowup in us the fire of corruption, fo as is often our anger. And therefore our anger then is not of grace, but of corruption. 3 Holy anger, that is conceived againft finne, (loth not any thing unfit us for duties wee owe ei- ther God, or man no not that man with whom we are angry. As Mnfei was angry with the ¡frae. lites, and chid them fharply , yet withall prayed for them heartily. As when our children , through their own fault, have got tome fickneffe, for all our angry fpeeches , we goe to the Phyftian for them. Chrift when he was angry with the Pharifees, at the fame time mourned for their finne. Ionathan was angry with his father for vowing David, death: yet his anger made him fpeak nothing unbefee- ming the duty, either ofafonne to his Father, or of a Subjea to his Soveraign. Anger againft finne is alwayesjoyned with love of the firmer. Sincere anger is a loving anger, a devout anger : fits a man for the duties of love to men, of devotion to God. This anger is a whetitone to Prayer, and by help of k, thou (halt pray better than before. if then thine anger fodifguife thee, and put thee out of frame that thou canft not tell, either how to ¡pray to God, or look, or (peak lovL;giy to man, not onely the perfon angring thee, but fcarce any other, it is a conviuion ofthe deccitfulneffe of thy anger. 3 Affe- 3 M3r,3. 5.
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