A20765:135
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,…
Spiritual physic to cure the diseases of the soul, arising from superfluity of choler, prescribed out of Gods word Wherein the choleric man may see the dangerousness of this disease of the soul unjust anger, the preservatives to keep him from the infection thereof, and also fit medicines to restore him to health being already subject to this raging passion. Profitable for all to use, seeing all are patients in this disease of impatience.Spiritual physicke to cure the diseases of the soule, arising from superfluitie of choller, prescribed out of Gods word Wherein the chollericke man may see the dangerousnesse of this disease of the soule vniust anger, the preseruatiues to keepe him from the infection thereof, and also fit medicines to restore him to health beeing alreadie subiect to this raging passion. Profitable for all to vse, seeing all are patients in this desease of impatiencie.
London: printed by Gabriel Simson for William Jones, 1600London: printed by Gabriel Simson for William Iones, 1600
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Sect. 3.
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