ABSTRACT
Lancelot Blackburne was an Anglican clergyman who became a canon and then dean of Exeter cathedral in 1691 and 1705 respectively and eventually rose to become archbishop of York in 1724. In July 1694, he preached to the royal count and chose to dedicate his sermon to the danger represented by the emotion of anger. For Blackburne, anger is primarily an ‘unruly passion’ which undermines reason, in complete contrast to meekness, unity, charity and condescension. The drift of the several Expressions in the Text, is to perswade people to Acts of Concord and Charity, and to disswade people from all the Obstacles to it, which that unruly Passion of Anger lays in our way. The general Head of Charity is of too large, and too nice a Nature, to be stated at length, in its several Particulars, within the compass of a Discourse.
