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The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs
The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs ; published by Thomas Goodwin ... [et al.]
London: printed by Peter Cole and Edward Cole, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. II.
Handling the first Doctrine.
Doct. 1. That the wrath of wicked men, especially when they have power, usually is very fierce and outrageous.
Doct. 1. That the wrath of wicked men, especially when they have power, usually is very fierce and outragious.
For the proof of this Point. It must be acknowledged that sometimes God indeed restrains it, but usually it is so. There is in every one a great deal of distempered wrath that doth break forth and vent it self when occasion serves and when temptation comes, in most vile and fearful effects and fruits. A furious man (saith the Holy Ghost in Prov. 29.22) aboundeth in transgression: Those that have hearts distempered with Passion, Anger, and Wrath: they are such as abound in transgression there breaks most horrible things from them, when they are in the heat of their passion and anger, not caring almost what they say or do, all the Commands of God are broken then.