Febrifugium. An essay for the cure of ungoverned anger: in a sermon preached, at…

Secondly. Meekness must Govern our Anger as to the Seasons of it. If you are Angry out of Time, Verily, your Spirit is out of Tune. You make wretched Jars, if you don't keep Time in your Anger. There are Two Cautions to be tendered you.

Secondly. Meekness must Govern our Anger as to the Seasons of it. If you are Angry out of Time, Verily, your Spirit is out of Tune. You make wretched Jars, if you don't keep Time in your Anger. There are Two Cautions to be tendred you.

One Caution is this; You must not be Angry too Soon. What a Reprimand have our short-winded, hasty, huffy People, given to them! In Prov. XIV. 17. He that is soon Angry, dealeth foolishly. Sirs, My ⟨p. 18⟩proposal is worth hearkening to; Never be Angry without first Pausing a little, and Thinking, Will my Anger be proper here? There was an Heathen Emperor, who would not permit his Anger to break forth at any thing, until he had made such a pause, as to recite the Letters of the Alphabet. There was a Christian Emperor, who would not permit the Indignations of Anger at any thing to boil within him, until he had made such a pause as to recite, The Lords Prayer. Thus the Brave Men, that had Rule over other Men, in this gave a Demonstration that they could […] themselves also. A Glorious Dominion, and that without which, Be it known to you, O Men of Quality, No Dominion will be Glorious. A Delay of Anger, until the fittest minute for the working of it; How Profitable, how Serviceable, would it be; what Precipitations would it save us from! The Discretion of a Man, is never more Conspicuous, ⟨p. 19⟩than when he Deferreth his Anger. I question, Whether any Man ever found himself a Loser by doing so. This I am sure of; He that is slow to Anger is better than the mighty.

One Caution is this; You must not be Angry too Soon. What a Reprimand have our short-winded, hasty, huffy People, given to them! In