A20760:488
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.
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.
I adde the materiall cause, namely the heating of the bloud about the hart, which heate or inflamation is caused by the apprehension of the iniurie offered, or the dislike which the heart conceiueth of the iniurie apprehended: which is either in truth an iniurie, or but in opinion and appearance onely: for anger hath not alwayes a true cause, but sometime fained & imaginary: and this materiall cause (namely the heating of the bloud by apprehension of the iniurie) the formall cause followeth, that is to say, an appetite or desire of reuenge, for before wee desire to reuenge the iniurie, we first apprehend and feele it, which desire is either iust or vniust: iust, if we be angry for a iust cause, with those with whom we ought to be angry, after a iust maner, obseruing a fit time, and to a good end: vniust, if these circumstances be not obserued. Furthermore in this definition the cause of anger is expressed, namely iniurie offered, (for anger alwayes presupposeth iniury) and the subiect thereof which is the hart, as also the obiect, to wit, reuenge of the iniurie.
And so much for the general definition of anger:1