Spiritual physic to cure the diseases of the soul, arising from superfluity of choler,…Spiritual physicke to cure the diseases of the soule, arising from superfluitie of choller,…

Sect. 10.

The last internal cause of unjust anger is want of meditation concerning ¹the common imperfections whereunto we are all by nature subject: for if we did but consider that in many things we offend all, and that we our selves have the same faults or greater then those which we espy in others, we would not hastily be moved to choler upon every trifling occasion. But it is the custom of men addicted to anger, to imitate the Lamiae, who (as the Poets feign) use ⟨p. 31⟩their eyes abroad, and put them into a box when they come home: so these are but too quicksighted abroad in spying the faults of others, but stark blind at home in discerning their own faults; and though they have a great beam in their own eyes, yet they can easily discern a small mote in the eye of another. And the reason is because they put their own faults into that part of the wallet which they cast behind their backs and therefore never look upon them, but the faults of others into that part which hangeth before them, where into they are always curiously prying.

The last internall cause of vniust anger is want of meditation concerning ¹the common imperfections whereunto wee are all by nature subiect: for if we did but consider that in many things we offend all, and that wee our selues haue the same faultes or greater then those which we espie in others, we would not hastely be moued to choller vppon euery trifling occasion. But it is the custome of mē adicted to anger, to imitate the Lamiae, who (as the Poets fayne) vse ⟨p. 31⟩