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

Secondly. It may check our Anger, if we will Consider this; Who is it that makes me Angry, and from whose Hand come the Accidents, on which I place my Anger? 'Tis very probable, There may be the Hand of Joab in all this; I mean, That there may be an Hand of Satan in Contriving to make you Angry; For he knows, That when you are Angry, he has you, at wondrous Disadvantages, to drive you into some Snare that he has been laying for you. When we are Angry, let us call to mind; It may be, that I am now put into this Agitation, by Satan sifting of me! But now let me not Humour Satan, by discovering abundance of Bran in the sifting. What says the Proverb of Israel? ⟨p. 32⟩He that hath no Rule over his own Spirit, is like a City that is broken down, and without Walls? We are besieged by the Devil, in the Assaults, that alarm our Anger. If now we are like a City that is broken down, and without Walls, what, what will become of us? There was a Wicked Man among the Corinthians, by whom our Apostle was buffeted, as Micajah had formerly been, after a most Intimate Communion with the Heavenly World. But the Man of GOD says of him; 2 Cor. XII. 7. There was given me a Messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be Exalted above measure. Sirs, The Cause why you are so Angry, is Because that somebody Buffets you. Now think; It may be, that Satan sets them on! And he may set them on for this very purpose; To throw you into the Disorders of Anger.

Secondly. It may check our Anger, if we will Consider this; Who is it that makes me Angry, and from whose Hand come the Accidents, on which I place my Anger? 'Tis very probable, There may be the Hand of Joab in all this; I mean, That there may be an Hand of Satan in Contriving to make you Angry; For he knows, That when you are Angry, he has you, at wondrous Disadvantages, to drive you into some Snare that he has been laying for you. When we are Angry, let us call to mind; It may be, that I am now put into this Agitation, by Satan sisting of me! But now let me not Hamour Satan, by discovering abundance of Bran in the sifting. What says the Proverb of Israel? ⟨p. 32⟩He that hath no Rule over his own Spirit, is like a City that is broken down, and without Walls? We are besieged by the Devil, in the Assaults, that alarm our Anger. If now we are like a City that is broken down, and without Walls, what, what will become of us? There was a Wicked Man among the Corinthians, by whom our Apostle was buffeted, as Micajah had formerly been, after a most Intimate Communion with the Heavenly World. But the Man of GOD says of him;