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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81211	Ioy out-joyed: or, Joy in overcoming evil spirits and evil men, overcome by better joy: set forth in a sermon at Martins in the fields, to the Right Honourable the Lords assembled in Parliament, upon the day of their solemn rejoycing and praising God, for reducing the city of Chester by the forces of the Parliament, under the command of Sr William Brereton, February 19. 1645. / By Joseph Caryl minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer London Bridge.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing C780; Thomason E323_3; ESTC R200591	20,183	35

of that chanell wherein it was into another chanell wide and capacious enough to hold all the inundations of it Notwithstanding in this rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you but rather rejoice in this that your names are written in Heaven I shall not stay upon any anxious division of the text There are two clear parts in it The one Corrective The other Directive The Corrective part lies in the first words wherein Christ checks and stops the suspected excesses of their joy for victories gained over evil spirits Notwithstanding in this rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you The Directive part lies in the later words shewing them a joy wherein there could be no excesse but rather rejoice in this because your names are written in Heaven Notwithstanding in this rejoice not Joy is the opening and dilatation of the heart upon the receiving of some present good thing as sorrow is the coarctation the shutting or locking up of the heart upon the pressure of some present evil Rejoice not that is let not your hearts open too much in receiving this object The negation is not absolute but only comparative so it is expounded in the next clause Rejoice not but rather He doth not forbid but qualifie and moderate their joy That the spirits are made subject to you Angels are spirits and they are either good or bad That these spirits were bad Angels we have warrant at the 17 verse The Devils are subject unto us These were once good Angels Now they are fallen and by their fall they have lost their condition but not their constitution their honour but not their nature they are spirits still The spirits are made subject to you Subjection is two-fold Either compulsory or voluntary The subjection here meant is a compulsive subjection They are not subject to you as the Saints are to Christ by a professed subjection of their wills but they are subject as a slave to his Lord whether they will or no by an imposed subjection Good Angels faithfully serve the Saints and evil Angels are made subject to them The former are ministring spirits sent out for the● good of those who are the heirs of salvation The later are kept by the power of Christ and the ministry of his servants from doing hurt to the heirs of salvation To be enabled for this is a great priviledge yet the Disciples must not rejoice greatly in this In what then Christ shews them a better and a nobler object of joy But rather rejoice that your names are written in Heaven There are no literall records in the Court of Heaven there is no pen or ink no paper or parchment there To be written in Heaven is only this to be elected unto eternall life and adopted sons of God to an inheritance among the Saints in light Moses of old spake this language Exod. 3● 23. Blot me out of thy book which thou hast written David in allusion to this phrases a prayer against his enemies Let them be blotted out of the book of the living and not be written among the righteous Psal 69. 28. And Christ promises the Sardian victor That he will not blot his name out of the book of life Rev. 3. 5. God is said to have two books in Heaven First He hath a book of those things which we have done or the book of conscience Rev. 20. 12. I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works Secondly He hath a book of what himself hath done or the book of election called often in Scripture the book of life Phil. 4. 3 Rev. 13. 8. c. ●7 8. c. 20. 15. c. 21. 27. c. 22. 19. Further God may be said to have in Heaven a black book wherein every word is a blot a blot fallen from the lives of wicked men here upon the earth And he hath as I may so speak a white book a book written with the fair letters of all the holy acts which his Saints have done upon the earth Again God hath a book of death wherein all the names of reprobates are written with the gall and wormwood of his everlasting wrath And he hath a book of life in Heaven written with the golden raies and beams of his own eternall love Our being written in this book of life is the matter of that exceeding joy to which Christ calls his Disciples in the text But rather rejoice in this that your names are written in Heaven The words thus opened yeeld plenty of seasonable and profitable instructions First this Evil spirits are subject to the power of Christ working in his Saints and servants The Devil is subject not only to the immediate and personall power of Christ but to his mediate and ministeriall power The subduing of the Devil was not a businesse confined to that age wherein Christ sojourn'd on earth such victories are obtained every day Such conquests as the Disciples obtained are very rare And I intend not a discourse about the possession or dissposession of evil spirits but there is an ordinary way of subduing the power of the Devil in the ministration of the Gospel The Gospel is the ministration of the holy Spirit and therefore it must needs be victory over the evil spirit Thus the unclean spirit is made to dislodge The Divel is seldom permitted to possesse the body of any man but he possesses the souls of all wicked men And though the Divel be cast out of the souls of all beleevers yet he never ceases to oppose their souls Every time a sinner is converted an evil spirit is subdued and every time a temptation is resisted by the Saints an evil spirit is foiled The Divel is a great prince and he hath more then halfe the world his subjects Many millions and among them many Kings of the earth doe him homage and stoop to his commands But how great soever he is and how many soever follow him yet he is made to stoop to the least of the Saints That roaring Lion couches to them and they tread upon this serpent The God of peace bruises Satan under their feet Rom. 16. 20. Besides as evil spirits are subdued which work in or against the souls of men So evil spirits are kept from hurting and afflicting the bodies and outward estates of men For as good Angels incamp about the godly to guard and protect them so evil Angels incamp against the godly to anoy and vex them If the power of Christ to this day did not master and subdue the power of those evil spirits they would make strange confusions in the world quickly The Divels are under a twofold chaine First under a chain of justice So the Apostle Iude at the sixth verse of his Epistle They are reserved in everlasting chains they can never wear them out or file them off under darknes to the judgement of