Jeremiah Burroughs (“Sermon XIII or A Reprehension of Professors That Are Not Meek,” in The Saints’ Happiness, pp. 200–201):
Frowardness and anger is contrary to true grace; for what is it that grace doth in the heart when it first comes? The first thing is to shew unto the soul its own vileness, its own wretchedness and baseness by sin, and the danger that it’s in through sin, now how contrary to this is a froward passionate heart, to the sight of its own vileness and baseness, what dost thou see thy self to be a vile base sinful worm, and yet canst bare nothing that is against thee, but presently thy heart is in a flame, if any thing come crosse to thee, surely thou knowest not thy self.... When grace comes into the heart, doth it not discover to the heart the infinite need it stands in of mercy, "I lie at the feet of mercy, at the dispose of mercy, and if mercy comes not in to save me, I am undone for ever;" now how doth this stand with thy sight or sense, and need of mercy that art of a froward disposition, and canst bear nothing with others, and yet confessest thou standest in so much need of mercy thy self.
