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spirit_n	father_n	holy_a	jesus_n	13,652	5	5.8822	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59261	The wisdom of publick piety discoursed in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London, at the Guild-Hall Chappel, Septemb. XXVIII, 1679 / by Edmund Sermon ...	Sermon, Edmund, b. 1643 or 4.	1679 (1679)	Wing S2624; ESTC R16086	13,630	40

of the World such and is there any better to be expected shall our fury reduce things to a better state When we have raged and tormented our selves never so much our anger may indeed help to make things worse but is the most unlikely means to put them into a better posture Consider again that if there were no thwartings and provocations there would be no need of such a vertue as meekness nor would there be any such vertue at all For if nothing crossed us but all things went according to our mind there would be no occasion nor trial of meekness for it would be impossible that we should be otherwise than pleased But because things will fall out oppositely to our desires and expectations therefore meekness is enjoyned as a means to relieve us We may do well to consider withall that if things happen so ill as to disquiet us whether it is not wisdom to make the best that we can of them and so whether it be not our wisdom instead of strugling with a provocation to suppress and stifle our resentments of it And seeing anger is most frequently stirred up by the provocations that are given by Men and seeing we are not angry with Men but when we judge that they deal unduly with us As it becomes us to see that this judgment be true and that we do not unjustly apprehend a wrong when there is none done to us so upon condition that we are injured it were worthy of our consideration how much it degrades a Person who hath the honour to be just to stoop so low to the brutish as to be wounded with a resentment of their villany and how much it is beneath the mind of such a man to be disordered by the rudeness of disorderly men The very being concerned at their insolence doth but make it too plausible whilst it shews them to be such as deserve consideration Ye suffer fools gladly saith the Apostle seeing ye your selves are wise 2 Cor. 11.19 And saith the wise man Prov. 26.4 Answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto him that is take notice of him no farther than is necessary to prevent the evil that may follow from the toleration of his pride and vanity It being a reproach to a wise man to submit his wisdom to the pleasure and controulment of a fool who rageth and is confident whose brutish passions first deprive him of sober sense and then give him courage and boldness to expose his want of it So true is that saying of Solomon Prov. 14.29 He that is flow to wrath is of great understanding but he that it hasty of spirit exalteth folly 2. Avoid those worldly affections and desires which are the primitive and fundamental incentives to anger as Covetousness and Ambition For these make Men competitors for the same things and so stir up anger and emulation amongst them One is displeased because another carries away his profit and another because his Neighbour steps in between him and honour And especially pride produceth the greatest animosities and heart-burnings amongst Men. Thus when a Man is puffed up with the wisdom of speculation he is angry that others are not of his judgment though they perhaps have more reason to be displeased with him because he is not of theirs And generally where Men have great thoughts of themselves they expect great regard and observance from others and this earnestness and confidence of expectation makes them wrathful when they are disappointed And how far their rage and discontent may go and in what inhumanity it may end as we do not know so we need not to enquire it being sufficient that we know thus much that the effects of it are very sad and dismal Now the God of Patience and Consolation grant us to be like-minded one towards another according to Christ Jesus to whom with the Father and the Holy Spirit be ascribed Dominion Blessing and Praise both now and for ever FINIS EDWARDS MAYOR Cur. Special tent die Lunae in Festo Sancti Michaelis Archangeli 1679. Annoque Regni Regis CAROLI Secundi Angl. c. xxxi THis COURT doth desire Mr. Sermon to Print his Sermon preach'd Yesterday at the Guild-Hall Chappel before the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of this CITY WAGSTAFFE