The excellency of holy courage in evil times by Jeremiah Burroughs

Secondly: Passion and Wrath is compared to Fire, and fire is active, and quickly goes beyond its bounds, and then there is no hold of it, but much evil may come of it, and so it is with Wrath.

Secondly: Passion and Wrath is compared to Fire, and fire is active, and quickly goes beyond its bounds, and then there is no hold of it, but much evill may come of it, and so it is with Wrath.

Thirdly: Much evil comes of Passion being inordinate, because, being as distempered Fire that comes from a Disease, it eats out the natural heat: as in the Body, the heat of the Fever that is distempered, it consumes the true natural heat. And so, though there be some natural heat, or some kind of goodness, and kindness naturally in a man, that heat and goodness is taken away if he be in any passion; And therefore one brings in this comparison. ⟨p. 7⟩Kindness is as one that is very hot naturally, when passion comes, it doth consume and take away the good natural heat, and he is altogether carried on in a distempered heat.

Thirdly: Much evill comes of Passion being inordinate, because, being as distempered Fire that comes from a Disease, it eats out the natural heat: as in the Body, the heat of the Feaver that is distempered, it consumes the true natural heat. And so, though there be some natural heat, or some kind of goodness, and kindness naturally in a man, that heat and goodness is taken away if he be in any passion; And therefore one brings in this comparison. ⟨p. 7⟩Kindness is as one that is very hot naturally, when passion comes, it doth consume and take away the good natural heat, and he is altogether carried on in a distempered heat.