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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.
But as anger causeth men to be hurtful to all others,1 so especially to those whom they should most love, cherish, and defend, that is, they who are of a mans own family: who because they are necessarily conversant with them, are continually subject, and even exposed to their fury and outrage: the wife to their bitter speeches (if they do not worse, that is, like mad men beat their own flesh) the children to furious and unreasonable correction, the servants not only to reviling speeches, but also to cruel stripes and blows: so that (as one saith well) we may know an angry man, if we but look in the faces of his servants,2 namely, by their scars and bruises.
But as anger causeth men to be hurtfull to all others,1 so especially to those whom they should most loue, cherish, and defend, that is, they who are of a mans owne familie: who because they are necessarilie conuersant with them, are continnallie subiect, and euen exposed to their furie and outrage: the wife to their bitter speeches (if they doe not worse, that is, like mad men beate their owne flesh) the children to furious and vnreasonable correction, the seruants not onelie to reuiling speeches, but also to cruell stripes and blowes: so that (as one saith well) we may know an angrie man, if wee but looke in the faces of his seruants,2 namely, by their scarres and bruises.
- 1Anger most hurtful to a mans own family.Anger most hurtfull to a mans owne familie.
- 2Plutarch de cohib. irac. §. Sect. 11. The evils which anger bringeth to common-wealth.Plutarch de cohib. irac. §. Sect. 11. The euils which anger bringeth to common-wealth.