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Anger may kindle in the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of a fool.
Henry Scougal
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Many there are that suffer the sun not only to go down upon their anger, but to run his whole race— yes, many races—ere they can be reconciled, whereby their anger becomes inveterate and turns into malice, for anger and malice differ but in age.
Anger is a tender virtue and such as by reason of our unskillfulness may be easily corrupted and made dangerous. He that in his anger would not sin must not be angry at anything but sin.
It is the great duty of all Christians to put off anger. It unfits for duty. A little jogging puts a clock or watch out of frame, so a little passion the heart. A man cannot wrestle with God and wrangle with his neighbor at the same time. Short sins often cost us long and sad sorrow. An angry man is like one in a crowd that hath sore bile; every one thrusts him and troubles him." With the froward thou wilt shew thys[elf] froward," a dreadful scripture to a peevish, froward man. Those that are too merry when pleased are commonly too angry when crossed. Blessed Lord, subdue this lust in my heart; I am very weak there. Lord, there strengthen me, turn the stream of my anger [against] self and sin. O how doth my anger at men make God angry at me! Lord, pardon in Christ
Thou a Christian and carry hellfire about thee! How can it be? When we see a child furious and revengeful who comes of merciful parents, we…say we wonder of whom he got his currish, churlish disposition; his father and mother were not so. Who learns thee, O Christian, to be so revengeful and unmerciful? Thou hast it not of thy heavenly Father, I am sure.Gems, 19
Anger is a short madness; whensoever it displaces reason, it is sinful.Commentary, 1:603
there is a holy kind of anger, which the scripture does not disallow; so that, unless a man is angry in that way, he will never be a good and godly man. For a good man has a zeal for God, and in that godly zeal he is angry at the iniquity and naughtiness of mankind.The Decades https://www.monergism.com/decades-ebook
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