Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

Suppose a man hath a Paralysis, or a Palsy of anger, ¹that a man would be quiet and cannot: Consider first, Anger rests in the bosom of fools; all anger comes of folly, else when a mans anger is over, why doth he repent him of what he hath done? Secondly, it comes from pride; cure pride, and heal anger. Thirdly, it is a shame to be angry, for a fool is known by his anger, but a wise man covers his shame. It is a shame to be drunk, so to be angry; ⟨p. 290⟩for anger distempers the soul as drunkards doth the body: for all these are as drunkenness and the actions that proceed from them as vomits.

Suppose a man hath a Paralysis, or a Palsie of anger, ¹that a man would be quiet and cannot: Consider first, Anger rests in the bosom of fools; all anger comes of folly, else when a mans anger is over, why doth he repent him of what he hath done? Secondly, it comes from pride; cure pride, and heal anger. Thirdly, it is a shame to be angry, for a fool is known by his anger, but a wise man covers his shame. It is a shame to be drunk, so to be angry; ⟨p. 290⟩for anger distempers the soul as drunkards doth the body: for all these are as drunkenness and the actions that proceed from them as vomits.

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Suppose a man hath a lethargy of idleness, consider first it brings beggary, secondly it makes our Sacrifices dead, ¹our prayers cadaverosa sacrificia, carcasses of sacrifices, and have neither life nor soul in them, as the carcass hath the lineaments of the body but wanting soul, none delight in it; so prayers have the lineaments of a duty but wanting life God abhors them. Apply this medicine and it will quicken us, and make us shake off this disease.