A20760:487
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.
And so much for the name:1 now we will speak of the definition. First I say it is an affection, for the whole essence of a man consisteth of these three things, body, soul, and affections, which do participate of both the other: now anger cannot be said to be a quality or property of the soul alone, for the material cause thereof is the boiling of the blood about the hart, nor of the body alone, for the formal cause, namely the appetite and desire of revenge stirred up by the apprehension of the injury offered, doth more properly belong to the soul, and therefore I call it a mixed affection proceeding from them both.
And so much for the name:1 now wee will speake of the definition. First I say it is an affection, for the whole essence of a man consisteth of these three things, body, soule, and affections, which doe participate of both the other: now anger cannot bee said to bee a qualitie or propertie of the soule alone, for the materiall cause thereof is the boyling of the bloud about the hart, nor of the body alone, for the formall cause, namely the appetite and desire of reuenge stirred vp by the apprehension of the iniurie offered, doth more properly belong to the soule, and therefore I call it a mixt affection proceeding from them both.
- 1The definition explained.The definition explaned.
I add the material cause, namely the heating of the blood about the hart, which heat or inflammation is caused by the apprehension of the injury offered, or the dislike which the heart conceiveth of the injury apprehended: which is either in truth an injury, or but in opinion and appearance only: for anger hath not always a true cause, but sometime feigned & imaginary: and this material cause (namely the heating of the blood by apprehension of the injury) the formal cause followeth, that is to say, an appetite or desire of revenge, for before we desire to revenge the injury, we first apprehend and feel it, which desire is either just or unjust: just, if we be angry for a just cause, with those with whom we ought to be angry, after a just manner, observing a fit time, and to a good end: unjust, if these circumstances be not observed. Furthermore in this definition the cause of anger is expressed, namely injury offered, (for anger always presupposeth injury) and the subject thereof which is the hart, as also the object, to wit, revenge of the injury.