A20760:499
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.
So that the sense of these words is briefly thus much:1 be angry and spare not, so that your anger be just and holy, but seeing by reason of your infirmity and corruption your just anger may easily degenerate and become unjust, if due time, place, person, and other circumstances be not observed, therefore take heed you sin not, by being unjustly angry, yet if through infirmity ye fall into this sin, do not harbour it, no not one day. Let not the Sun go down on your wrath.
So that the sence of these words is briefly thus much:1 be angry and spare not, so that your anger be iust and holy, but seeing by reason of your infirmitie and corruption your iust anger may easily degenerate and become vniust, if due time, place, person, and other circumstances bee not obserued, therefore take heede you sinne not, by being vniustly angry, yet if through infirmitie ye fall into this sinne, doe not harbour it, no not one day. Let not the Sunne goe downe on your wrath.
- 1The meaning of the words.
And so much for the meaning of the words: Now I will entreat of their several parts.1 And first concerning just anger, what it is, and what is required in our anger that it may be just and holy.2 T this anger is an holy and reasonable desire of revenge stirred up in us, upon just, weighty, and ⟨p. 10⟩necessary causes, whereby we being after a lawful manner angry with our own and others vices & sins, rather then with the persons, do desire justly to punish and revenge the vices and sins, to the end God may be glorified, the parties amended, and that the anger of God being pacified, may be averted not only from the party offending, but also the Church and common wealth. First then it is required to holy and lawful anger, that the cause thereof be just: now the just causes of anger are divers. First, when we are moved thereunto with a zeal of Gods glory: