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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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The remedies to cure anger in others. Cap. 10.
Sect. 1.
And so much for the remedies which serve to cure anger in our selves: now we are to speak of the remedies whereby ⟨image 84⟩we may cure it in others. The first means to mitigate anger in another, is 1to use silence: for as the fire cannot long continue if the wood be taken from it, so anger cannot long endure, if words and cross answers be not multiplied: whereas on the other side, cross speeches and perverse replies, make the choleric man proceed from anger to rage, from folly, to fury and madness. And this the wise man teacheth us Pro: 26. 21. As the 2coal maketh burning coals and wood a fire, so the contentious man is apt to kindle strife. So chap. the 30. and the last verse. As he that wringeth his nose causeth blood to 3come out: so he that forceth wrath bringeth forth strife. By silent yielding therefore thou mayest easily abate another's anger, whereas cross answers make it ragingly violent. For as the Cannon shot looseth his force if it light in soft earth or Wool, but dasheth the stony wall in pieces: so the violence of the most furious anger is abated, when it is not resisted, but furiously rageth, where it findeth any opposition. And hence it is that Plato calleth anger Neruos animi, qui & intenderentur acerbitate, & laxarentur mansuetudine: