Diseases of the soul a discourse divine, moral, and physical. By Tho. AdamsDiseases of the soule a discourse diuine, morall, and physicall. By Tho. Adams

Cure.

TO cure this Bedlam passion, (leaving the other to deeper judgements in that profession) both nature and Grace have given rules. Natural reason; that an angry man should not undertake any action or speech, till he had recited the Greek Alphabet; as a pause to cool the heat of choler. That angry men should sing to their passions, as Nurses to their Babes [Greek or Hebrew] haste not, cry not. Maximum remedium est irae, mora. The best remedy for Anger is delay. What a man doth in anger, ¹he lightly repents in cold blood.

TO cure this Bedlam passion, (leauing the other to deeper iudgements in that profession) both nature and Grace haue giuen rules. Naturall reason; that an angry man should not vndertake any action or speech, till hee had recited the Greeke Alphabet; as a pause to coole the heate of choler. That angry men should sing to their passions, as Nurses to their Babes 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 haste not, cry not. Maximum remedium est irae, mora. The best remedy for Anger is delay. What a man doth in anger, ¹hee lightly repents in cold bloud.

1. 1Sen. de ira. Lib. 1. Cap. 28.

That we should keep our corrupt nature from provoking objects, as a man that hath Gunpowder in his house, keeps it safe from fire. That we should construe all things in the best sense: a good disposition makes a good exposition, where palpableness doth not evince the contrary. That suspicion is a pair of bellows to this mad fire. That Jealousy and self-guiltiness are the angry mans Eves-dropper and Intelligencer. That the Earth suffers us living to plough furrows on her back, and dead, opens her bowels to receive us: a dead earth convincing a living earths impatience. Scripture. That anger resteth in the bosom of fools. That the wrath of man doth not accomplish