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] sicknesse, not according to the | short moment and violent passions | of Her Death; but according to the | holy Actions of Her Health, the | former Affections of Her Heart, and | the Generall Course of Her Life[q]; | [Note q: M^r. _Greenham_. 1. Treat. then it is our Dutie, not seuerely | for Afflict. Consc. fol. III. part to censure her passionatenesse, who | 2.] by reason of the parching Feauer of | the Spirit, as well as of the Body, | was disquieted in her Imagination | (as the Physitian of the body could | discerne) though not in her Memory. | Consider therefore O Man (as that | excellent Physitian of the Soule | aduiseth thee[r]) if thou canst | [Note r: _Id. Of Death, fol. 9. beare with a fraile Body, that thou | part 2._] must much more beare with a fraile | Minde and Body too. Consider also O | Man, that this her Pettishnesse did | more wound her to the heart, than | any iniury thou couldst presse her | with. Neither doe I speake this to | nourish passion in any, or to proue | her Anger to be Sinlesse[s]; but to | [Note s: _Vitemus ergo aut be a lesse Sinne, because her | temperemus irac[=u]diam: ne sit Spirituall and Bodily Distemper was | eius aut in Laudibus exceptio, aut so great, or rather because her | Off. lib. 1. cap. 21._] Faith quenched the flame of this | fiery passion in Christs Bloud, | resolued and melted her heart into | many penitent Teares afterwards. | [Note: _Repentance for the same._] Oh, said she to me, (pressing her | with _Dauids_ example, _Psal. | 131._) In my Health I could digest | any iniury, and deemed it base and | vngodly, not to be able to doe so; | but now (I know not how) me thinkes | I am ouer-tender in bearing them. I | am impatient indeed, and then I | weepe for my impatiencie. For I | know (as she her selfe vrged) _The | wrath of Man doth not accomplish | [Note t: _Iam. 1. 20. Psalm. 4. the Righteousnesse of God_[t]. | 4._] | Thus shee was Angrie with her selfe | [Note u: _Ephes. 4. 26. Vel certe for being Angrie with others, and | sic: Si irascimini, vobis then (according to Saint _Ambroses_ | irascimini, quia commoti estis, & rule) it ceased towards them before | non peccabitis. Qui enim sibi the Sunne went down[u]; and was not | irascitur, quia c
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