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Febrifugium. An essay for the cure of ungoverned anger: in a sermon preached, at…
Febrifugium. An essay for the cure of ungoverned anger: in a sermon preached, at the proposal and on the occasion, of a man under a sentence of death, for a murder committed by him in his anger. At Boston, 23. d. III. m. 1717. : [Two lines of quotation in Latin]
Boston: printed by J. Allen for Benjamin Gray, 1717
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Eccl. VII. 9. ANGER resteth in the Bosom of Fools.
OUR People are at this time Entertained with a Spectacle, upon which our Heart is Exceedingly hardened, if we cannot say, My Eye affecteth my Heart. The sad Spectacle is a Man who dies before his Time, with this Lamentation in his Mouth, I have slain a Man to my wounding, and a Neighbour to my Hurt. It will be our Happiness, and it is what the ⟨p. 4⟩glorious GOD requires of us; to make an Holy Improvement of such an unhappy Spectacle. How can it be better improved, than by a due Attention to the Warnings of GOD against the Vice, which has Murdered this poor Man, and pushed him upon a Murder! I shall bring forth a bloody Murderer among you; It shall be Arraigned and Indicted for doing of horrid Things amongst us, not having the Fear of GOD before its Eyes, but being moved by the Instigation of the Devil. It shall be stoned before the Lord; Join with me, my Hearers, in the stoning of it. It has here killed One poor Man, in hurrying him on to kill another. It has the Seed of all mischief, and even of Murder in it. You are doubtless willing to know the Name of the Murderer upon whom I have this Design. I inform you then, UNGOVERNED ANGER, I say, UNGOVERNED ANGER is the Malefactor. Behold, A Man dying a Sacrifice to the ⟨p. 5⟩Folly of UNGOVERNED ANGER: which certainly is, To die as a Fool dieth! 'Tis UNGOVERNED ANGER that has brought all this upon him. UNGOVERNED ANGER; How Fatal a Folly! And yet, how Frequent a Folly! This is that Error against which, in the Lamentable Circumstances of this poor Man, Lo, GOD sends forth his Voice, and it is a mighty Voice. Oh! Let it have a due Attention from us: Let all Israel Hear and Fear, and let that Foolish Passion be no more indulged among us.
OUR People are at this time Entertained with a Spectacle, upon which our Heart is Exceeddingly hardened, if we cannot say, My Eye affecteth my Heart. The sad Spectacle is a Man who dies before his Time, with this Lamentation in his Mouth, I have slain a Man to my wounding, and a Neighbour to my Hurt. It will be our Happiness, and it is what the