The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…

3. Avoid all occasions of Anger; as the company of angry, choleric persons, whose angry words are ap• to move one to passion: Therefore saith the Wise Man, Prov. 22. 24. Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go, nor walk familiarly. Avoid likewise Gaming and Drunkenness, which are great occasions of angry words, yea, and many times of angry blows. It is not possible for any man to avoid any sin, that doth not avoid the occasions thereof.

3. Avoid all occasions of Anger; as the company of angry, cholerick persons, whose angry words are ap• to move one to passion: Therefore saith the Wise Man, Prov. 22. 24. Make no friendship with an angry man, and with a furious man thou shalt not go, nor walk familiarly. Avoid likewise Gaming and Drunkenness, which are great occasions of angry words, yea, and many times of angry blows. It is not possible for any man to avoid any sin, that doth not avoid the occasions thereof.

4. Labour to be persuaded, that it is greater honour to pass by, and not regard an injury, than to follow and pursue every wrong with revenge. Solomon saith, It is the glory of a man to pass by an infirmity, Prov. 19. 11. Herein lieth true magnanimity, when a man passes by, and not regards every light injury: when he can hold the bridle, and keep in, and keep under, and in compass so head-strong a passion. Heathen men by the light of nature could say, Fortior est qui se, quam qui sortissima Vin•it Moenia, That he is a more valiant man that overcometh himself, than he that conquereth a City; which Solomon ⟨p. 74⟩expressly affirmeth,