Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

III. If thou hast been moved to anger in the day time,¹ let not the Sun go down upon thy wrath; which is the counsel of the Apostle Paul, whereby he implieth such a speedy suppression of anger, that it may not sleep with thee, for saith he in the next verse, This is to give place to the Devil, ²who, like the Lion that is greedy of his Prey,³ when the Sun is down creepeth forth, seeking whom he may devour; and in the night season, coming to the angry man in his bed, saith Gregory, he setteth before him the greatness of the wrong done unto him, and aggravateth the •ame, by all the amplifying circumstances thereof, to heighten up his anger to a revenge;⁴ and therefore saith the Apostle, Let not the Sun go down upon your wrath; but if you have been moved un•o anger, it must not live past a day, lest in the day having conceived some displeasure, thou travel with revenge in the night, and in the morning bring forth some mischief or other; and therefore as we say of the Toad-stool. ⁵it grows up in a night, and dyes in a night; so should this poisonous weed of anger, dye on the day wherein it was born.

III. If thou hast been moved to anger in the day time,¹ let not the Sun goe down upon thy wrath; which is the counsel of the Apostle Paul, whereby he implieth such a speedy suppression of anger, that it may not sleep with thee, for saith he in the next verse, This is to give place to the Devil, ²who, like the Lion that is greedy of his Prey,³ when the Sun is down creepeth forth, seeking whom he may devour; and in the night season, coming to the angry man in his bed, saith Gregory, he setteth before him the greatness of the wrong done unto him, and aggravateth the ame, by all the amplifying circumstances thereof, to heighten up his anger to a revenge;