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Sect. 3.

The third means to subdue anger ¹by arming us with patience, is to call continually to remembrance the bitter passion and sufferings of Christ for our sins. For if we consider how patiently he endured scoffs and reproaches, railing and reviling, buffeting and scourging, yea death it self, and the anger of God more grievous then death, not for any demerit of his, but for our sakes, we may easily suffer such small injuries as are offered unto us by men, at our saviour Christs request, seeing we ²have deserved far greater. As therefore those which were stung with the fiery serpents, were healed if they did look up to the brazen serpent which was erected for this end: so if this fiery serpent of unjust anger have stung us, and the burning poison thereof hath inflamed us, let us cast the eyes of our souls upon the true brazen serpent, our saviour Christ hanging upon the cross, and suffering the wrath of God due to our sins, and so the heat of our wrath ⟨p. 66⟩and anger vvill soon be cured and cooled.

The third meanes to subdue anger ¹by arming vs with patience, is to call continually to rememberance the bitter passion and sufferings of Christ for our sinnes. For if we consider how patiently he indured scoffes and reproches, rayling and reuiling, buffeting and scurging, yea death it selfe, and the anger of God more grieuous then death, not for any demerit of his, but for our sakes, we may easily suffer such small iniuries as are offered vnto vs by men, at our sauiour Christes request, seeing we