170 VE R s.zo. An Expofttion, with Notes fi re inftr aw, ratherthen like fire in iron: Thoughts of revenge are fweet, but when they fiay long in the vdfel, they are apt to wax eager and fowre: New wine is heady, but if it be kept long it growerh tart. A1Jger is furious, but if it be detained it is di- · ,"" ~O~JIIM~, gefted and concoCl:ed into mlllipe. ~ Ari.ftotlerfckoneth three de– '71'1XeJi, xd.- grees of angry men, each of which is wor(e then the former~ r.:?ro 1• A rift. fome are hvt {fy, others are bitter, others are implvtcable: Wrath ' Ethic. lib+.retai ned deflfteth not without revenge. Oh confider, this fpirit is c.zp. 1 g. mofr unchrillian; therule of_ t~e Word is, -~<Let not the Sun ga -l< .t:ph. 4.26. down upon your '1\'rath : Th1s ts a fire that mull be covered ere we go to bed: If the Sun kave us angry, the next morning he may * nv9ct)loe.t- finde us maliciom. "" Plutarch iaith of the Pythagoreans, that xoi')\Je-~ p. 11 _ if any offe-nce had fallen out in the day, they wouldbefore Sun-fet .Nv '71'eJ~»- mutually embrace one,another, and depart in love : And there is xov1~~ d.r.r.. rl. a fiory cf Patrir:im an(!{. John of Alexandria, between whom xo1 v~ r-.6)11! great Anger had paife:d; but at evening {ohn fmt to him .this P.m%.ov1H melfage, The Sun is [et; upon which they were foon reconCiled. iho1: '71'eJ3· Caujlejf, without a fuffici em ground, Matth. 5. 22. whofo– ttx_9E1svfi ~ ever is angry with hu brother Without a caufe., u in danger of , r.oiJioeJ.rU ;udgment: But now the great enquiry is, what is a fufficient caufe ~· 0~JI'ii~ for Anger? Are injuries? I an(wer, No; Our Religion forbid– '71'VV " "r.' eth revenge as well as injury, for they differ onely irJ order; the ·cl'vv~ rr : 10 v ill doing of :mother cloth not loofen and take away the bond of Jl~~ut.~7 £:- our love: W~mmm ~re pr:ovoke~ ~y an injury, they think they ~JJ.:.r.ovts~ may do any thmg; as tf anothe_r_:s ~n~ury had exempted them from i'A>..hM 1 ~ , the_obed1ence of Go~s Law :. I hts ts b~t to repeat and ac:t over · · ·· , .o.~ thm fins ; ·cwas bad mthem, c1s worfe mus : *for he that finneth d.(JJJ'(t(J'd.;J,;y.iOI b I rh . b r: h h d . 11. f h d" ~ , ~ . yexamp e, nnnet twtce , ecatlle .Je a an mnance o t eo 1d'IEJ\vovlo . r. ( t . . , h ,., r:. f I d' h . .{.11 • Pl h OUltK so lt m anot er : .1. oan_ 1 vrer aJ oe aceor mg to .u JOtiJ lS * ~r~ · tobe li/ze him, Prov. z6. 4· to praCl ife that my felr, which I judg P I ut ex- t odious in another : and cenainlyit cannot be any* property of a bm 0 pectca good man purpofely to be evil becaufeanother is fo. But are mi.f -~<uJe.~c~.r.". haps a q.uk? 1 anlwer, No ; this were not onely anuer, but mur- '/U~:,rcJ t r- . d n . . ft · b · 0 c-..- . . murmg, an a nennmg agam provtdence, y wh1ch all events, ,.~ zn;unam h 11 I d . d B h . ~ . f nititur, eum CC: .t] ~re to USdCaS u:a , ,are t'ter1;11?ne 1 • fUC are.f~ .e bffil ~ama_g~S 0/ . r , nl arm an . er.vants a caule ' an wer, 1 tt e m jjJtntua 1p; uma quo · , . 1«/tu eft geftit imitari; & qui-m~tlum imit(!ltf:Jr bqnus e.Jfe nufto paED 'poteft: La(tanr. devero cultu, lib. 6. cap. 1 S.
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