A37049:1198
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions…A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions…
A practical exposition of the X. Commandments with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.A practical exposition of the X. Commandements with a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1675
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.
If any ask here, Is there no anger lawful? Answ. Yes, for there is somewhat of it natural, yea, and sometimes it lawfully immixeth it self in duty, as in zeal, when God is dishonoured, which was in Moses, Exod. 32. And no doubt, Indignation at wicked men, in some cases, is lawful, and also required. But carnal Anger is forbidden; which, 1. Is a desire of revenge where there hath no wrong been done to us: 2. When the revenge desired is disproportioned to, and greater then the wrong: 3. When it is preposterously desired, without intervening Justice: 4. When it is not desired for the right end, to wit, the mans gaining, but only for the satisfying of our carnal humour: 5. When it is immoderate and corrupt in the manner of it, so as the name of God is dishonoured by it. This unlawful Anger, when it is 1. against ⟨p. 349⟩a Superior, it is called grudge; 2. when against an Equal, rancour; 3. when against an Inferior, disdain and contempt; these two last follow ordinarily upon the first.
If any ask here, Is there no anger lavvful? Answ. Yes, for there is somevvhat of it natural, yea, and sometimes it lavvfully immixeth it self in duty, as in zeal, vvhen God is dishonoured, vvhich vvas in Moses, Exod. 32. And no doubt, Indignation at vvicked men, in some cases, is lavvful, and also required. But carnal Anger is forbidden; vvhich, 1. Is a desire of revenge vvhere there hath no vvrong been done to us: 2. When the revenge desired is disproportioned to, and greater then the vvrong: 3. When it is preposterously desired, vvithout intervening Justice: 4. When it is not desired for the right end, to wit, the mans gaining, but only for the satisfying of our carnal humour: 5. When it is immoderate and corrupt in the manner of it, so as the name of God is dishonoured by it. This unlawful Anger, when it is 1. against ⟨p. 349⟩a Superiour, it is called grudge; 2. when against an Equal, rancour; 3. when against an Inferiour, disdain and contempt; these two last follow ordinarily upon the first.