...... ~rr#-- - :rz:s7ttC:7? CaAP.I. ~tponthe Epiflle' of JAM li s. wa·Smofl: nietk in his ()WO ca:ufe; when Miriam and Attron fpoke againH: him, 'cis [aid, Numb. 12. 3· T he man Mofos wM meek_, above all men z~n the et!lrth: But when the Lawwas made voyd, he broke the Tablesi and his-meek fpirit was heightened into fome excefs of zeal: By that action you would have judged his temper hot and funous.- Lots fpirit was vexed, but 'cwas wtth Sodorm filthrne;s, not with Sodoms injurits: Zeal is too good an atfeelion to be facrifice:d to the Idol of nur own efl:eem and in– terefl:s. 2. It mull: have aright ob.rert : The heat of indtgnation mufi be again£\: the crime, ratherthen againll: the perjo~a: GoQd anger is 'llways accompanied with grief; it prompteth us to pity and pray forthe party offending. Marlz.3· 5., Chrift look.§d.'lbout him With anger, and W.u griev edfor the barcJnefs cftheit hearts: Falre zeal harh mifchief and tr;rtlz'ce in it; 'cwduld have the often• dor roared out, a~d purpofeth revenge rather then corf'eilirm. 3• The manner mufl be right: See that you be not tempted to any undecency and unhandfomnefs of expreffiop; Violen~ and troubled exprejfions arguefome carnal commotion in the (pirit: Mofes was angry upon a good caufe, bnt he JPake unadvifedlJ With hi& lip!, Pf~. 1 o6. 33. In religious Coneefts men are more {ecut'li'; as if the occafion would warrant rht"ir excelfes; and fo .often A1;ger is vented the more freely J and lleth umnortified, un– liet· apretence of z ea/. 3· Tliete is a finful Anger, when 'cis either, r. Haflxand inde._ /Jbordte; ra-th and fudden motions are never without.fin: ·fom~ pett'ilh fpitits are (as I {aid) like fine glaj[es, broken as foon as touched, and all of fire upoH <?very flight and trifling occa!1on ; Wlien meek and grave fpiritS are /i/ze flints, that do not {end Ollt a fpa_rk, but after, violenc and great collifion: Feeble mindo-..- have }arJ habit of \Vrath, and,-like broken bones, are apt to roar with the lea:fl: touch : it argueth much unmortifiednefs to be fo foon moved. Or, 2. immoderate, when itexceedeth the merits Gfthe caufe, a~- bd~g too mu~-h, or kc:pt too long; Too much, when the . ~ \ cemfitottoli 1s fo immoderate, as to difcompofe the Spirit, or to di– fiutb ~reafo!"J,ot to imerrupt prayer,:md the fre~exercife of che fpirit in duti6S. MReligion; when mtnhave lCJfl: chat* patience in wnich *Lu~2 r. r 9 thtiy fhould pofJejs .tndenjoy them(elves ,: the,r:e is arational dijlik.§ that maybe allowed, but fuch violent commotions are not wtthout ,fin. Too long; Angerlhould beli~ea fpark,foon exting01£hed; like . Z fir ,•
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