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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.
CHAP. IX. The remedies to expel or bridle Anger.
CHAP. IX. The remedies to expell or bridle Anger.
And so much for those means and remedies,1 whereby we may prevent and repel anger, before we fall into it. Now in the next place I will set down, how we are to behave our selves after that anger hath made an entrance, and taken place in us. And this the Apostle teacheth us in the restraint: Let not the Sun go down on your wrath. That is, if through infirmity ye fall into unjust anger, yet continue not in it, but rather abandon this corrupt affection with all possible speed. So that our anger must not sleep with us, and after we awake, awake also; we must not use it like our garments, lay it aside overnight, with a purpose to take it again the next day: but rather we are to put it off like the old man, with full resolution never again to entertain or assume it, or like some polluted rags which are not worth the wearing. And this must we do not once or twice, but if every day with the Sun anger arise in our harts, we are every day to dislodge and expel it, before the Sun going down. And as the night doth cool the heat which in the day time the Sun hath made, so must it also quench the flames of anger kindled in our harts. And not without great reason he requireth that before night cometh we abandon anger,2 for otherwise we shall give place to the devils tentations, as he intimateth in the words following: for having exhorted us not to let the Sun go down on our wrath, he presently addeth, neither give place to the Devil. Noting thereby that they who do not