Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. Psalm 37:8 As a perpetually sleep-deprived, perennially hormonal mother of seven, I have come to realize the great importance of a solid theology of anger. When I first started on this journey about a decade ago, I didn’t have a very good grasp of biblical anger…
Richard Baxter Direct I. The principal help against sinful anger is, in the right habituating of the soul, that you live as under the government of God, with the sense of his authority still upon your hearts, and in the sense of that mercy that hath forgiven you, and forbeareth you, and under the power of his healing and assisting…
Anger is good when it is thus used to its appointed end, in a right manner and measure: but it is sinful, When it riseth up against God or any good, as if it were evil to us: as wicked men are angry at those that would convert and save them, and that tell them of their sins, and that…