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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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Sirs, If you are Men in Public. Circumstances, and especially, if you are Men of Projection to Do Good in the World; You will have your Conduct often blamed with Vile Misrepresentations of it. You must meet with many Prodigies of Ingratitude, and People will heap Injuries upon you, at the very time when you are heaping of Kindnesses upon them. You shall perhaps encounter with unaccountable ⟨p. 45⟩Defamations, and in every corner of the Country hear the Defaming of many in wretched Calumnies, invented and fomented by them that Love and make a Lye.— But now,—Oh! Take heed unto your Spirit. Not a Word! Not so much as a Word, but what shall become a Meek Servant of GOD! Only say, Lord, Put not thy Servant away in Anger, and let me not have the mark of one put away, by Anger gaining upon me! Even a Moses himself, by Speaking unadvisedly with his Lips on such Provocations, may incur this; GOD shall be Wroth with him!— Oh! That Great Men were always Wise! But, alas. They are not so.
Syrs, If you are Men in Publick. Circumstances, and especially, if you are Men of Projection to Do Good in the World; You will have your Conduct often blamed with Vile Misrepresentations of it. You must meet with many Prodigies of Ingratitude, and People will heap Injuries upon you, at the very time when you are heaping of Kindnesses upon them. You shall perhaps encounter with unaccountable ⟨p. 45⟩Defamations, and in every corner of the Country hear the Defaming of many in wretched Calumnies, invented and fomented by them that Love and make a Lye.— But now,—Oh! Take heed unto your Spirit. Not a Word! Not so much as a Word, but what shall become a Meek Servant of GOD! Only say, Lord, Put not thy Servant away in Anger, and let me not have the mark of one put away, by Anger gaining upon me! Even a Moses himself, by Speaking unadvisedly with his Lips on such Provocations, may incur this; GOD shall be Wroth with him!— Oh! That Great Men were always Wise! But, alas. They are not so.
A Miserable Man here in the Chains of Death before you, Earnestly desires it of me, That all People may be warned against UNGOVERNED ANGER, from the sad Experience of what he has himself therein been left unto. Yea, The Holy GOD shows him unto