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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.
For the first.1 Unjust anger is a wrongful and an unreasonable desire of revenge, stirred up in us by unjust causes, whereby we having no respect of the glory of God, nor the good of our selves or our brethren, are after an unjust & immoderate manner, angry with them with whom we ought not to be angry. That unjust anger is a desire of revenge,2 it is so evident that it needeth no proof: for we know by daily experience, that he who is provoked unto anger by an injury offered in truth or in his opinion, desireth revenge according to the nature of the injury received, or the opinion which he hath conceived of it. If he be injured by a scornful look he seeketh to revenge it with a disdainful countenance: if by words he revengeth by words; if in deeds he desireth to revenge by deeds; yea oftentimes the fury of anger casting a mist before the sight of reason, causeth small injuries to seem great, & according to that false opinion, inciteth men to take revenge without all proportion. For an angry look with angry words, for angry words with blows, and for blows with death, according to the violence of the affection, and not the quality of the injury received.
For the first.1 Vniust anger is a wrongfull and an vnreasonable desire of reuenge, stirred vp in vs by vniust causes, whereby we hauing no respect of the glory of God, nor the good of our selues or our brethren, are after an vniust & immoderate manner, angry with them with whom we ought not to be angry. That vniust anger is a desire of reuenge,2 it is so euident that it needeth no proofe: for we know by daily experience, that he who is prouoked vnto anger by an iniury offered in truth or in his opinion, desireth reuenge according to the nature of the iniury receiued, or the opinion which he hath conceiued of it. If he be iniured by a scornful looke he seeketh to reuenge it with a disdainfull countenance: if by words he reuengeth by words; if in deeds he desireth to reuenge by deeds; yea oftentimes the fury of anger casting a mist before the sight of reason, causeth smal iniuries to seem great, & according to that false opinion, inciteth men to take reuenge without all proportion. For an angry looke with angry words, for angry words with blowes, and for blowes with death, according to the violence of the affection, and not the qualitie of the iniury receiued.