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The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…
The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan showing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan shewing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by S. and B.G. for Nevil Simmons, 1676
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.
Many, I know, account Anger, even the hottest and most hasty Anger, to be but a slight matter, a light infirmity; therefore I shall,
1. Show you the heinousness of this Sin. 2. Lay down some Remedies against it.
1. Shew you the heinousness of this Sin. 2. Lay down some Remedies against it.
That you may discern the heinousness of it, observe these considerations.
1. The passion it self is exceeding violent. Anger is brevis insania a short madness, as Seneca calls it, and maketh a man (as we say) beside himself, so as he hath no Government of himself, but is void of reason, in regard of the use of it: being more like an unreasonable, and outrageous Beast, than a reasonable and prudent man. It carries many men beyond the bounds, not only of modesty, but of humanity also.
1. The passion it self is exceeding violent. Anger is brevis insania a short madness, as Seneca calls it, and maketh a man (as we say) beside himself, so as he hath no Government of himself, but is void of reason, in regard of the use of it: being more like an unreasonable, and outragious Beast, than a reasonable and prudent man. It carries many men beyond the bounds, not only of modesty, but of humanity also.