PRAYER is the great remedy against anger; for it must suppose it in some degree removed before we pray, and then it is the more likely it will be finished before the prayer is done. We must lay aside the act of anger, as a preparatory for prayer; and the curing the habit will be the effect and blessing of prayer, so that if a man to cure his anger, resolves to address himself to God by prayer, it is first necessary that, by his own observation and diligence, he lay the anger aside, before his prayer can be presented; and if we pray, and so endeavor, we have all the blessing of prayer which God hath promised to it to be our security for success. Humility is the most excellent natural cure for anger in the world; for he that by daily considering his own infirmities makes the error of his neighbor to be his own case, and remembers that he daily needs God’s pardon and his brother’s charity, will not be apt to rage at the faults of another, greater than that which he feels that he is frequently and more inexcusably guilty of.—Jeremy Taylor.