e H A P. 4. .Epiflle to the Theff,ilonians. V a R. . We may here obferueadiTerenceofcorrupt afeélions in gods children, and in men vnregenerate ; !Cane air ring they haue in the moll fanEtil ed ; ordinarily they are not paffîa- nate, f.iue in the vnrege.netate. Vnlawfull and mill anger may arife in Gods children ; pallionate wrath, fury and rage is nor ordinary with them. Morions of enty'haue beene found in Gods children : as in lofuab for Mofes; in in *Aaron. and cY!iriam, "againfl him : but paffionate fpirefulnelfe, fuch as in Cain; in Haman, n that grew lickeóf envy, is not common in Saints. Lafciuious and wanton lulls haue their fl`rrings perhaps in the moil ho- ly : but páffiionate lulls, filch as wee reade of ° Ammon, are nor ordinary with them. When wewere'int/ee ffe(h, P the pagions ef - Concept once wrought in our members. Now are we in Chriff, 9 ..We haue mortified the fleffa with the pagions, and 10s-thereof: How may we' know them to be pan-ions? Firil,by their violence, w hen they grow fo heath }Tong that they admit no moderation : nor permit fo much as to confult anddeliberate about their fupprefiìng; Se -. condly, when their violence is incrcafed by oppofltion. It was lull ourragioufly paflion,re in Sodomites, that was r more inraged by Let his meekefl admonitions. Thirdly, Pallions are reftlelfe, and fill with difcontent- menttill they breake out into executions ; as in Achab, Haman, Ammon, Cain, &c. We haue men profefling the feare of God, in force af- feflions fo intemperate, and full of palfion, that they giue lull caufe to bee jealous of their morrificatiían. In their wrath they mutt needs glue vent ; and by bitter fpeeches difgorge the venome of their fpite. Such atTcc- tions are paulions, I like them not inChriflians. They f that are (hrifls, bauemortified the fief'', at lea in toe paf lions thereof. The Stoicks laid, Pallions are- nor incident into a -wile man. Nor ale fuch pafsions ordinary in a true Chrillian. As 2713 óbfer. m Nraw.tx.r n He¡á,s.r; o a Sanv.r;.b p 9 GaL5.i4 Anf. 's> r Gen.', .9. a f 6r1.5.24
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