CHAP.-1. HPfn the Epiflle.().f JAM! s. VJiRS.I9· 16; tertempered the~ thofec!lat were* Ct:lt to the beert~ as humilia. * .A£1.7. 54• tirm is a better fruit of the Word then impatience: you thall fee the Children .ofGod are moft meek, whe_o the Word faUech up.. on their .hearts moft diredly: David{aith, Let the righ.teotu re. pro'Veme, and itfo~l~ be an·o,l,&c. Rcp.roof to a gracious Soul "'.cis like afword anomted With balfam, lt woundeth and healerh at tbe Jame time : So He<t.~~i4h faid, 1[4. ~9· 8. GDodu the Word ofthe Lord, 'Which thou h4/l fpt~k.!n; •~was a~ad W. ~rd, an heavy Threatening; yet the fubmtffion of hts fantl1fied JUdgment calleth i·t gotJd: In fuch cafes yo:\,1 thould not fiorm and ta~e, but give thanks, and fay, as David to Ahigal, 1iltffed bt .the L~rJ ~hat (e.nt thu t,o11)eet me thid dAJ : Blefs God for meecmg Wlth )'Oli tn the Word. ~. Th,At."'tid[Bme'cNrtof palfirm to delay it: Be flQIW to wrath. O!Jforv. 7• • Anger growetb ,not by degrees, like other paffions, but at her... Maxim~ bir.th file is in her full growth; the heat and fury of it is at nrft, rtmtdi" ir~ · and the-refore the betl: cure is deliberacipn; Prov. 19. n. The djitJ.tiq rft,t~t difcretion ofam-a~ de[erfethhit anger; that is, the rev£nge which primll4 ej~ anger medicateth: Many men are like -tinder or gunpowder, fervor re"' take fire at theleafl: fpark of offence; and by following their lang 14 e[& 4 tJ paffions too dofe, run themfelves into inconveniences; there• c:7 ~aligo fore •tis good to check thefe precipitant motions by delay and fJ"" pre.mit duerreca,urfe to Reafon·: Prov. 14. 29. He that ishaf11of JPirit, mentem "'~' ~xttlteth foll~; wbenmen~·re q~ickancl_{horFof fpirit, they are refileat au, tranfperted meo·many und~cenctes, whtch dtilionour God, and minH~ den{t~ wound cbeir confdence, and afterward have caufe enough, by a fit; grav~1 long repentallce, to bewail the fad effetf:s ofa{hort Anafudden An• habet i1Ppe• ger. ,Athlnodorm advifed Augrljlm, when he was furprized ttuprimo. · with ~ng~, to repeat the Alp·habet, which.advice was fo far Senec.lib. 2. goAd; ask~e.nded to cool afu~den rage, that the mind beingdi.. de ira, cap. yert~d, mtg-bt,afcerward deliberate• . So~ .llmbr.ofe counfelled 2~. & lib.3. T~oehp'". ~he great{afcer.heh~d ralhly ma[acred theCitiz~ns.of cap. 1 ~. Thefalo?J~a) to de(r~e, T.bat .,, allfo:nt:nctl th.a! c~ncernea life, • Ruff.lib. s. theexecut1onof them foouldbe deferredtill the thlrttethday, that hi /I'. cap. 1 8. 'fq Jht;re f»(IJ h1A.[p~eforJl;;:wing J».lr:IJ; if 11ied required. Well Theod.li!J. 5. ~~~ ~qdJ,\lge nouhevioleflte and fwifcnefs of paffion ; {udden bifl. cap. 2 6. apprehenfions ufually miftake; theHltiwatejudgment of reafon is · · bt;tl.:~()~tQos veheRJeJlt,8c ofafudden irrcption,runaway with• - ~w:.a m~,~~~ egdin folly~d jncs>Jtvenience. It is a-defcription · . -- · Y s - .. of
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