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5. Power over wrath. Hereby though it do so fall out that anger be stirred up in us by the injuries of wicked men, yet by holding it in, as it were with bit and bridle, we may be kept from excess, and from sin, according to this intimation of the Apostle,¹ Be angry but sin not. Herein lieth a main difference betwixt natural men, and men regenerate. Because in natural men there is flesh only, when anger is kindled, it burneth more and more. But because in men regenerate there is spirit as well as flesh,^a by that spirit the lusts of the flesh are suppressed and quenched:³ as is evident in the case betwixt David and Nabal.

5. Power ouer wrath. Hereby though it doe so fall out that anger be stirred vp in vs by the iniuries of wicked men, yet by holding it in, as it were with bit and bridle, wee may bee kept from excesse, and from sinne, according to this intimation of the Apostle,¹ Be angry but sinne not. Herein lyeth a maine difference betwixt naturall men, and men regenerate. Because in naturall men there is flesh onely, when anger is kindled, it burneth more and more. But because in men regenerate there is spirit as well as flesh,^a by that spirit the lusts of the flesh are suppressed and quenshed:³ as is euident in the case betwixt Dauid and Nabal.

1. 1Ephes. 4. 26.
2. aGal. 5. 16, 17.
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