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A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the…A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the…
A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soul of man With the several dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edward Reynolds, late preacher to the honourable society of Lincoln's Inn: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire.
London: printed by R. Hearne and John Norton for Robert Bostock, 1640
Chapter 31: Of other Causes of Anger: first in regard of him that suffers wrong: Excellency, Weakne…
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That we may therefore so manage this Passion as to be Angry but not sin, it will be requisite▪
That we may therefore so ma•nage this Passion as to be Angry but not sinne, it will be requisite▪
1 To let it have an Eye upward, as Moses did, who never expressed any other Anger that we read of but zealous, and Religious, when the injury directly aimed at God and his honour. It is very improbable that any thing will move too fast upward.
1 To let it have an Eye upward, as Moses did, whonever expressed any other Anger that wee read of but zealous, and Religious, when the injury directly aimed at God and his honour. It is very improbable that any thing will move too fast upward.
2 To convert it Inward into a self-displicency1 and severity towards our own Errors, for the more acquainted any man is with himself, the less matter he will find of Anger with other men, as having so much both to do, and to blame at home. Anger ever •riseth from the Value which we set upon our selves, which will ever then be most modest, when we take of it the fullest view.
2 To convert it Inward into a selfe-displicency1