29. When men are hardened in sin, they rush on without fear. Thus an ungodly witness forbears himself, advances lies, or false doctrine, and feareth judgment; despising alike the laws of man, and the wrath of God: and with as much pleasure as the hungry eats, so greedily doth he swallow down iniquity: but his career is short, for vengeance is ready to overtake forewry, when they will find the wrath of an extended God is not to be mocked; and with the stripes of human punishment, or the stonks of divine and inexorable justice, they shall eternally suffer the just reward of their folly and wickedness. 31. 32. * He that is flow to anger, is better than the mighty: and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city. The greatest conquest is to subdue ourselves; though we held a captive world under our feet, if our passions reigned we should still be slaves at home; to subdue them, our labours and prayers therefore must be directed. Anger is among our most betetting sins; against this therefore we are called to struggle, to rule our spirits, to be done to wrath, amidst every provocation; and if we feel the rising warmth, to repel it, first emotions. In patience thus to possess our souls, is to be truly greater than if nations were led in chains behind our triumphal car. 33. The loe is cast into the lap: but the whole difposing thereof is of the LORD.