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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	evil_a	good_a	overcome_v	2,148	5	9.0851	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70719	A plain discourse about rash and sinful anger as a help for such as are willing to be relieved against so sad and too generally prevailing a distemper even amongst professors of religion : being the substance of some sermons preached at Manchester in Lancashire / by Henry Newcome ...	Newcome, Henry, 1627-1695.; Howe, John, 1630-1705.; Starkey, John, 17th cent.	1693 (1693)	Wing N898; ESTC R18504	45,498	96

return to it again 8. When it proves digested wrath and ends in hatred which is ira inveterata inveterate Anger and desire to revenge If you are Angry with any one so as to be willing to do them hurt this is sinful and unchristian You should not admit every one that hath crossed you nay if he hath wronged you into the List of your Enemies for you are to keep no such Roll And none should be your Enemy so far but you should love him and be ready to do him good so much the rather that you may win him with kindness and overcome evil with good Rom. 10. 20 21. To do any one any hurt in your sudden Passion is a great wickedness and to say you did it in your Anger will not excuse it no more than doing such a thing when drunk but rather aggravate your sin and double your guilt Who gave you leave to be Angry To cast Firebrands about and to say it was in sport Prov. 26. 18 19. is as good as to say I was angry when I did this undecent thing What Mischief had David like to have done in his wrath and how thankful is he to God that he was restrained and prevented What a grief of heart might the angry Expedition of that Day have been unto him when he had been in best Prosperity as was wisely suggested by Abigail 1 Sam. 25. 31 32 33. John Cardinal de Medicis Son to Cosmo Duke of Florence rode a hunting with his Brother Cortia at the killing of the Hare the Brothers fell to debate about the first hold each of them attributing the honour of it to his Hounds one word drew on another till the Cardinal gave Cortia a Box on the Ear Cortia immediately drew upon him and thrust him into the Thigh of which he died presently A Servant of the Cardinals in revenge gave Cortia a sore wound so that saith the Historian with the Venison they carried home to Duke Cosmo one Son dead and the other wounded of which he died soon after The brave Atchievement of Anger let loose and the destruction upon destruction upon the City without Walls But to premeditate Revenge and to bear Grudges after you have fallen out and to dare to say I will do to him as he hath done to me or as in our own Dialect I hope to be even with him Prov. 24. 28. or to rejoyce when any Evil comes to him Vers. 17. This is sublimate Wrath and no way consistent with the Religion of Love and Forgiveness of which you make Profession Here is a Spirit ruled by the Devil himself for you know not what Spirit ye are of for the genuine Spirit of the Gospel is Diametrically otherwise Whereas there is envying and strife are you not carnal and walk like Men 1 Cor. 3. 3. but if you design Hurt and Revenge you walk like Devils and where are your City Walls this while This poor Soul lies open naked to all the Invasions of the Enemy and where this is in this height there is confusion and every evil work James 3. 16. I shall subjoyn in this place once for all that famous passage of our Saviour on this Subject Matth. 5. 21 22. where he to vindicate the Law from the corrupt and too scanty Interpretations of the Jewish Teachers he speaks of the Law about Murther where he takes notice that they made the Law to reach only the outward Act and the Punishment only to reach the outward Man but he shews that this Law may be broken by the heart and a Man may be a murtherer that is unjustly angry with his Brother and hates his Brother For 1 such a one would kill if he could for the time that his Passion is up And 2 oft murthers are owing to such Causes And such Passions if indulged none knows what they may end in But the Punishments are from God sure to fall on them that kill and on them that are angry in order and tendency to kill in allusion to their several courts and degrees of punishment which rise from simple Death Stoning and the Sword and for heinous and most flagitious Crimes to burning alive or burning their Bodies when dead an execrable thing among them and this was counted the Punishment of the Valley of Hinnom you shall find worse from God than all this comes to If you be angry without cause so as to be wrathful and evil-minded towards your Brother to hate him and wish him hurt if it go no further than the heart it is a damnable sin if not repented of but greater the sin and danger if it break out into words To say Racha a vilifying expression and the action that usually accompanied it is implied spitting on him or at him vilifying him unjustly as the vilest of Men with respect to his Person and outward Condition to treat him with the greatest Scorn and Contempt A thing God allows not towards any for the honour of our common Nature A Malefactor that deserves disgraceful Scourging yet he must be beaten within such a number of stripes Deut. 25. 2 3. least thy Brother even such a one as this even as one at the Rogues Post should seem vile unto thee And will God suffer it unrevenged that ye shall in your Spleen and Passion vilifie any one on some private it may be but conceited Injury to call him ugly beggarly pitiful Fellow because he hath angered you But it is higher yet to call him Thou Fool in Scripture sense this reflects upon his Mind and Morals as a most wicked Person to be cast out of all Society as an Heretick and one Accursed and judged fit for nothing but Hell To reprobate them in thy Rage and Malice and wickedly to pass thy doom upon him and to damn him as far as in thee lyes by making him a Scripture Fool which is a flat wicked Man Dr. Lightfoot will have rash Anger to be guilty of the Judgment of God and these two latter to be obnoxious to Punishment from the Magistrate as things not to be tolerated as tending to break the Peace and to further Mischief if not curbed And Dr. Gell on this place says There ought to be in the Church Courts and Councels to judge and censure reproachful words All shews the great evil of unbounded unjust Wrath the evil of it and the mischief that it doth and that much more if it take degrees with you and break out in unchristian words it shall not escape the Judgment of God and if not repented of it shall meet with his Hell fire properly so called Men must not begin Anger without a just Cause nor continue in Anger above a just time One reckons up appositely enough four sorts of angry Men 1. Some it is soon kindled in and soon goes out the cholerick People like Gunpowder no sooner toucht but instantly fire in your face yet all but a sudden flash 2. Some long in kindling and long in going out These