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Four treatises tending to dissuade all Christians from four no less heinous then common…Foure treatises tending to disswade all Christians from foure no lesse hainous then common…
Four treatises tending to dissuade all Christians from four no less heinous then common sins; namely, the abuses of swearing, drunkenness, whoredom, and bribery. Wherein the greatness and odiousness of these vices is discovered; and the means and remedies, which may either preserve, or wean men from them, are propounded. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of anger. By John Downame Bachelor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods word.Foure treatises tending to disswade all Christians from foure no lesse hainous then common sinnes; namely, the abuses of swearing, drunkennesse, whoredome, and briberie. Wherein the greatnes and odiousnesse of these vices is discouered; and the meanes and remedies, which may either preserue, or weane men from them, are propounded. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of anger. By Iohn Dovvname Batcheler in Diuinitie, and preacher of Gods word.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for William Welby, 1609
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A TREATISE OF Anger, wherein the lawful use, and the unlawful abuse of this affection is showed out of Gods word.
A TREATISE OF Anger, wherein the lawfull vse, and the vnlawfull abuse of this affection is shewed out of Gods word.
Ephesians. 4.26. Be angry and sin not, let not the Sun go down on your wrath.
Ephesians. 4.26. Be angry and sinne not, let not the Sunne goe downe on your wrath.
CHAP. I.
THE miserable ruins of our excellent state by creation,1 which were the lamentable effects following the sin of our first parents, and the foul spots of original corruption, which like a contagious leprosy derived from them have infected all their posterity, do not so evidently appear in any part of the body of soul as in the affections, which are so corrupted and disordered that there scarce remains any small relics of their created purity. And hence it is that the heathen Philosophers though they did not perceive how much the bright shining beams of our reason, and the understanding part of the soul, were dimmed and darkened with the