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A remedy against private contentions A godly and fruitful sermon on James, 4.1. &c.…A remedy against priuat contentions A godly and fruitfull sermon on Iames, 4.1. &c.…
A remedy against private contentions A godly and fruitful sermon on James, 4.1. &c. Wherein is at large discovered the hatefulness, and perniciousness of private jars and contentions, with manifold remedies against the same. By Mr. John Dod.A remedy against priuat contentions A godly and fruitfull sermon on Iames, 4.1. &c. Wherin is at large discouered the hatefulnes, and perniciousnesse of priuate iars and contentions, with manifold remedies against the same. By Mr. Iohn Dod.
London: printed by Humphrey Lownes for Thomas Man, 1614London: printed by Humfrey Lownes for Thomas Man, 1614
A REMEDY AGAINST Private Contentions.A REMEDIE AGAINST Priuate Contentions.
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Are they not hence, even of your lusts? Here he showeth the fountain of all their discontentments: namely, their own untamed affections: whatsoever occasions there may be, that is the true cause: as the reason why a Lyon rageth and roareth, is not that any creature disquieteth him, and raiseth him up, (for then a sheep being stirred should roar too) but that his natural inclination draweth him thereunto.
Are they not hence, euen of your lusts? Here he sheweth the fountaine of all their discontentments: namely, their own vntamed affections: whatsoeuer occasions there may be, that is the true cause: as the reason why a Lyon rageth and roreth, is not that any creature disquieteth him, and raiseth him vp, (for then a sheep being stirred should roar too) but that his naturall inclination draweth him thereunto.
Doct. 2 1The Doctrine hence to be gathered is this, that, Our own distempered lusts are the cause of all our strife and contention with others. They make us unquiet in our selves, and so cause us to disquiet them that are about us. Therefore it is said, that fleshly lusts do fight against our 2souls: they cause a continual war within a man, which inward combat with ones self, showeth it self oftentimes in outward jarring with men. Christ Jesus had as great wrongs as ever man in this world had, yet was he never in any passion, or distemper: and why? because he was quite void of carnal affections. Before his conversion Paul was very boisterous and full of rage, but after that he had spent the heat of his anger upon his own great sins, he that had been very froward became very meek, and was able with patience to undergo imprisonment, whipping, ⟨p. 15⟩stoning, reviling, with any the like indignities: we never hear this from him: what? shall I bear this? a man of my education, of my learning, of my gifts? shall I endure to live in the stocks, hungry and cold, and full of pains, &c. No, no, these thoughts were far from Paul: he was content to suffer any thing, yea, to lay down his life for the name of the Lord Jesus, and that because his lusts were subdued, and the venom thereof removed.