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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.
In showing the meaning of the words I will first define ⟨p. 3⟩what anger is, and then set down the divers sorts thereof.1 Anger therefore generally considered, is thus defined: it is an affection, whereby the blood about the heart being heated, by the apprehension of some injury offered to a mans self or his friends, and that in truth, or in his opinion only, the appetite is stirred up to take revenge.
In shewing the meaning of the words I will first define ⟨p. 3⟩what anger is, and then set downe the diuers sorts thereof.1 Anger therefore generally considered, is thus defined: it is an affection, whereby the bloud about the heart being heated, by the apprehension of some iniury offered to a mans selfe or his friends, and that in truth, or in his opinion onely, the appetite is stirred vp to take reuenge.
- 1What anger is in general.What anger is in generall.
First, we will speak of the thing defined,1 and after of the definition. Anger in the Latin tongue is called (Ira) which name hath his notation from the effect, for when by the apprehension of an injury, the heart is inflamed with the heat of anger, it doth make a man (quasi ex se ire) as it were to go out of himself, and in this respect he who was angry, was said by an usual Latine phrase (non esse apud se) not to be with himselfe, and ad se redijsse, to have returned to himself, when his anger was passed over. The Grecians did especially use two names to express this affection, which did contain in them the very nature of Anger. The first [Greek or Hebrew] which signifieth the perturbation it self, or the heating of the blood by the apprehension of the injury offered: the other [Greek or Hebrew] which signifieth the appetite or desire of revenge, which followeth the perturbation. So that these two names contain in them, both the material and formal cause of anger: for the material cause is the heating of the blood about the heart, which is signified by the first name [Greek or Hebrew]: the formal cause is the appetite or desire of revenging the injury offered, which is understood by the other name [Greek or Hebrew].