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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14278	Ionah's contestation about his gourd In a sermon deliuered at Pauls Crosse. Septemb. 19. 1624. By R.V. preacher of Gods Word.	Vase, Robert.	1625 (1625)	STC 24594; ESTC S119027	48,155	72

indignation or anger hath it wrought Yea what revenge What anger will you say Why be angry saith Saint Basil against your sinnes the divell lies vanities your selues What revenge Be revenged vpon your sinnes the divell lies vanities your selues Oh when will the edge of our anger of our revenge bee turned this wayes This is a noble anger to be angry with what God is angry a worthy revenge when vertue doeth chastise vice Behold saith the Apostle hee speakes it with an Ecce the same that ye sorrowed as ye ought what anger what revenge c. This is a victory most acceptable vnto God and shall be crowned of him with a crowne of glory There is a time also wherein wee may be angry with our brethren but with greater caution ought this to bee tempered For we are but seldome angry with our selues but often with our brethren but a very little angry with our selues very much with our brethren making that to be but a mote in our owne eyes which is a beame in our brothers The Apostle hath a very apt and wholesome admonition to this purpose in the first verse of his fourth Chapter to the Galatians each word containing a secret argument to innocent anger Brethren if a man be overtaken with a fault yee which are spirituall restore such an one in the spirit of meekenesse considering thy selfe least thou also bee tempted More specially in our anger to others obserue wee these two the manner the measure for the manner walke according to the old rule well knowne little practised hate the offence love the person How can this bee I answere how is the father angry with his childe Even so that though hee chastise the fault he loveth the childe so be angry with thy brother that yet thou be in charitie with him This is an hard lesson may some say both to hate and love at the same time but in other matters of lesse waight thou knowest wisely enough how to distinguish For if thou have a garment that is bespotted thou knowest how to take out the spot from thy garment not to reiect the garment for the spot even so take out the moth that is in thy brothers eye but preserue and doe not destroy the eye because of the mote in the eye So for the measure of our anger I shall not neede in many words to prescribe It was prohibited to the Iewes in correction to their brethren that they should not exceede the number of fortie stripes wee being for the most part in cases of priuate revenge culpable of that which was obiected against the Israelites by the Prophet Obed in their dealing against their brethren of Iudah vnder the raigne of Ahaz viz. that they persecuted them with a rage that reached vp vnto heaven Our Saviour in the 5. of Saint Mathew doth mention three degrees besides actuall murder which is to bee punished with death by mans law of vnlawfull anger The first in thought he that is angry with his brother the second in gesture or signe hee that saieth to his brother Racha which word signifies anger and in the speech of our Saviour doth forbid all signification of our anger to our brethren either in looke or countenance or by any other signe or gesture The third sort of vnlawfull anger there mentioned is expressed by word or tongue hee that saith thou foole or gives any other reproachfull prouoking termes or speeches to his brother The whole text runnes thus Whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the Counsell but whosoeuer shall say Thou foole shall be in danger of hell fire Then beware of offending in the first kinde being angry in thy secret thought against thy brethren take heede more especially it be not manifested by some outward signe take heede most of all these it breake not out into intemperate language If thou feare not the Iudgement feare an assembly or counsell if you feare not the counsell stand in awe and tremble at hell fire But heere now a very necessary question doth arise If anger be so strictly forbidden as we see what course or remedie is then left vnto vs in all iust provocations of wrath and concerning the manifold iniuries which are daily offered to our persons how are we to behave our selues A question truly well worthy to bee discussed and the same very apt and pertinent to the Treatise of Anger Wherefore I answere that we ought at all times abstaine from anger even to our very thoughts saving in the manner as is before spoken to be angry with the sinne not with the person Howbeit we are not debarred the vse of lawfull courses in the remedying of wrongs and preventing further dammages when we are iustly thereunto provoked and cannot otherwise maintaine peace But wilt thou know wherein tread not the path of revenge and goe not in the way which thy intemperate anger would leade thee But follow the counsell of thy blessed Saviour whose words in this cause are so plaine I wonder any man should mistake whose aduise is so wholesome I wonder all men doe not more regard it Matth. 18.15 These be his words If thy brother shall trespasse against thee goe and tell him of his fault betweene thee and him alone if hee shall heare thee thou hast gained thy brother but if he will not heare thee then take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established and if hee shall neglect them tell it vnto the Church but if he neglect the Church let him bee vnto thee as an Heathen man or Publican Where you see all meanes by Christians lawfull to bee vsed to be expressed by our Saviour the first priuate the second more open the third most publike all friendly but if all will not serue he is no longer to be esteemed as a friend with whom we are to deale The two first are well knowne but how little vsed therefore the right vse of the last is vnknowne or most abused By which last the Church I doe vnderstand such as are deputed in the stead of Christ for well ordering causes called by some the Church representiue For our Saviour here speakes from the manner of the Iewes Common-wealth who had Elders in every Citie the first beginning whereof was from Iethro whose office was to heare and iudge of controversies and end suits in law Answerable whereto in our Common-wealth comparable I thinke I may boldly say to that of theirs and inferiour at this day to no other for matters of Policie and Church-government if as truly executed for Ecclesiasticall matters are the spiritualitie and such as study the Civill lawes in matters temporall the Magistrate and they who studie the Common lawes for the maintenance of outward peace and tranquillitie in this our Church and Common-wealth Let this be the Church then in this sence Tell the Church not a Presbyterie compacted of I know not who as