Secondly professed anger is showed 1by the manifest fruits thereof, and they are of two sorts evil speaking and evil doing. By evil speaking, as when men do manifest their anger in spiteful railing words which are far unbeseeming not only a Christian, but also an honest infidel. This is condemned in the one and thirty verse of this chapter. Let all bitterness, anger, and wrath crying, (that is clamorous railing) and evil speaking be put away from you. And that we may the rather be moved to abstain from this odious vice, let us consider that God made the tongue to be an instrument of his praise and not to dishonour him by cursed speaking. And therefore he vvill not hold him guiltless, which makes this heavenly organ of his spirit created ⟨image 45⟩to show forth the creators praise a cursed instrument of Satan in reviling and slandering our neighbour▪ and this our Saviour Christ teacheth us: Whosoever (saith he) shall say unto his brother Raca; (that is the least word of reproach) shall be worthy to be punished with a council (that is an assembly or senate of Magistrates) And whosoever shall say fool shall be punished with hell fire Math. 5. 22. Let us remember that by our words we shall be 2justified and by our words we shall be condemn demned: and good reason, for Verba sunt animi indices, the tongue is the harts interpreter, and therefore our saviour Christ sayth, Ex abundantia cordis os loquitur. 3Out of the abundance of the hart the mouth speaketh. yea this the wise Socrates well knew; and therefore when a certain father had sent his son to him, to the end that seeing him he might perceive his disposition, he said to the young man: Loquere adolescens, ut te videam speak young man that I may see thee, noting thereby that the disposition of his hart was best known by the words of the mouth. Seeing therefore God judgeth according to the hart, and seeing ⟨p. 39⟩the hart is best discerned by the tongue great reason it is that by our words we should be justified or condemned▪ let us remember also that if for every idle 4word we must give an account at the day of Judgement, how much more for railing and reviling speeches? and if these meditations always run in our minds we will in our greatest Anger follow the practise of the Prophet David, Psa. 39. 1. that is, we will bridle our mouths that we may not sin with our 5tongue.
Secondly professed anger is shewed 1by the manifest fruites thereof, and they are of two sortes euil speaking and euill doeing. By euill speaking, as when men do manifest their anger in spightfull rayling vvordes vvhich are farre vnbeseeming not onely a Christian, but also an honest infidell. This is condemned in the one and thirtie verse of this chapter. Let all bitternesse, anger, and wrath crying, (that is clamorous rayling) and euil speaking be put away from you. And that vve may the rather be moued to abstaine from this odious vice, let vs cōsider that God made the tongue to be an instrument of his prayse and not to dishonour him by cursed speaking. And therefore hee vvill not hould him guiltlesse, vvhich makes this heauenly organe of his spirite created ⟨image 45⟩to shewe forth the creators prayse a cursed instrument of Sathan in reuiling and slaundring our neighbour▪ and this our Sauiour Christ teacheth vs: Whosoeuer (sayth he) shal say vnto his brother Raca; (that is the least worde of reproch) shalbe worthy to be punished with a councell (that is an assembly or senate of Magistrates) And whosoeuer shall say foole shalbe punished with hell fire Math. 5. 22. Let vs remember that by our wordes we shalbe 2iustified and by our wordes we shalbe condē demned: and good reason, for Verba sunt animi indices, the tongue is the harts interpreter, and therefore our sauiour Christ sayth, Ex abundantia cordis os loquitur. 3Out of the abundance of the hart the mouth speaketh. yea this the wise Socrates well knew; and therfore when a certayne father had sent his sonne to him, to the end that seeing him he might perceiue his dispositiō, he sayd to the young man: Loquere adolescens, vt te videam speake young man that I may see thee, noting therby that the disposition of his hart was best knowen by the wordes of the mouth. Seeing therfore God iudgeth according to the hart, and seeing ⟨p. 39⟩the hart is best discerned by the tongue great reason it is that by our words wee should be iustified or condemned▪ let vs remember also that if for euery idle 4worde we must geue an accoumpt at the day of Judgement, how much more for rayling and reuiling speaches? and if these meditations alwayes runne in our mindes we will in our greatest Anger followe the practize of the Prophet Dauid,
- 12. Anger is manifested by evil speaking or evil doing. 1. Evil speaking.2. Anger is manifested by euill speaking or euil doing. 1. Euill speaking.
- 2Mat. 5. 22
- 3Math. 12. 27 34.
- 4Math •• 36.
- 5Psa. 39. 1.
