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A76967	Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life. And the vaine mirth of a wicked life, with the sorrovves of it. / By Zach: Bogan of C.C.C. Oxon.	Bogan, Zachary, 1625-1659.	1653 (1653)	Wing B3441; Thomason E1486_1; ESTC R208439	202,360	374

Godly and the ungodly Read the stories in the Bible of the enemies of God destroy'd by Creatures without the helpe of a reasonable hand But what need I puzzle my head to search or weary my pen to shew you how and what occasions a wicked man has to be sorrowfull when almost any object of any of his senses or his knowledge is sufficient to make him so Not any thing that he sees or heares when he goes abroad Not any thing that he eats or drinks Not any action that he does himselfe or knowes to be done by another Not any event that befalls him but if it be not every way according to his mind will marre all his mirth if it were or if it seemd to be never so much before His mirth is such so carnall so fraile and so much depending upon the use and enjoyment of outward things that unlesse there be a continuall supply of such oyle it will quickly goe out in a stinking snuffe of sorrow Unlesse there be a constant affluence of all those things in a full current if there be never so little amisse or never so little intermission or never so little abatement of the water his wheeles are presently stopd and he can goe no longer Any change of any circumstance will change the mood for a wicked man is but in a merry mood at the best never in a merry mind Too soone or too late too fast or too slow too oft or too seldome too long or too short too much or too little any of these or such as these are will doe it His mirth is but stayd up by props and those very weak ones So that having no root to hold it any little puff of wind will overturne it T is but superficiall without depth but on the top of his face Meere paint no complexion Heat will melt it and water will wash it and any thing that agrees not with it will deface or take it away To conclude let a wicked man's condition be what it will it is all one for he is still after the same manner who is still the same man He hath enough within to counterworke any thing that you shall bring from without Use what instruments you will cords or forks enticements or enforcements a good or a bad condition it is all one His nature holds fast and his bad condition will continue still to breed him discontent enough Come prosperity or come adversity you shall see but little oddes for the better One may make him more sad then the other but neither will make him more merry Adversity may break his heart and prosperity will not make it lighter He has not the patience to endure the one nor the discretion to manage the other without vexation Adversity is like a shield which he cannot beare and so he must needs be overborne with it Prosperity is like a sword which he cannot weild and a thousand to one but he hurts himselfe with it this sword will enter into his owne heart Psalm 37.15 His afflictions are intolerable because they are cursed of God as he himselfe is they are sent in displeasure and not so seldome neither as men count if we tooke better notice but because we think so well of good men and see them punished we take notice of none but them How oft is the candle of the wicked put out And how oft cometh their destuction upon them God distributeth sorrowes in his anger Job 21.17 If their afflictions come not often recompence is made in the coming For they come with a vengeance If his fall be but one it is irrecoverable for He that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once Prov 28.18 When he is afflicted none more afflicted then he For he has no grace either to endure his affliction or to pray to be eased On the contrary the godly man being well affected to God and having God well affected to him is so farre from being so sadned and dejected either for being or for feare of being afflicted that he cannot only look upon but laugh at afflictions c. 5.22 At distruction and famine thou shalt laugh One that lookes upon a godly man and a wicked man with a carnall eye nay one that looks with a spirituall eye but does not look neere enough or long enough will wonder there should be so much difference as there is betweene them in regard of their condition But I 'le warrant you let him look as he should and he will find it to be as I have said I will but shew you in a word or two of what use that which I have said may be to the wicked man and I have done It is of use to him both for Information and for Exhortation For information To informe him that he has been misinform'd by the devill and the world who have put it into his head that there is no life like that which he is in for mirth no mirth so good as his and none so merry as he 2. That his case is cleane contrary viz that no life has more cause of sorrow then his that no mirth is worse either morally or Physically i.e. for corruption of sinfullnesse or mixture of sadnesse and that none is lesse truly merry then he For exhortation it will be of use to exhort him That seeing he hath so much cause to be sorry and his mirth is such what ever it seem to be he would forbeare a while his foolish jollity and bethink himselfe of the sadnesse of his condition to get out of it and the vanity of his mirth to leave it Come whosoever thou art doe not flatter thy selfe as other wicked men doe as the psalmist said He flattereth himselfe in his owne eyes untill his iniquity be found to be hatefull Psalm 36.2 Doe not couzen thy selfe to deceive the world I tell thee thou hast many diseases Discover thy folly Doe not conceale it at least to him who will know it though thou doest what thou canst and will forgive it if thou doest what thou shouldst Doe not heale slightly thy wound but search thy sins to the quick and never leave till they be dead Thou hast many a leake and thou hast a great deale of water in thee allready Repent and pump it out at thine eyes ere thy ship sink T is but be sad for a while till the work of humiliation conviction be done and afterward I will warrant thee mirth enough and good enough and long enough For He that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtlesse come again with rejoycing bringing his sheaves with him Psalm 126.6 FINIS A Catalogue of Books Printed for and to be sold by Richard Davis at his shop neare Oriell Colledge in Oxford A Paraphrase and Annotations upon all the Books of the New Testament by Hen Hammond D.D. in folio The Practicall Catechisme with all other English Treatises of Hen Hammond D.D. in two volumes in 4o. 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joy Psal 132.9 The joy of the wicked is never full or perfect not so much as in simple being so as a man may truly give it the name of joy much lesse in the best sort of being For there is alwaies one thing or other missing or amisse and many times confessions are drawn from their own mouth that their mirth is not true How usuall are these speeches amongst them If this or that had been or if this or that had not been we had been truly mery 3. A third property of a godly man's joy is that it is Continuall 1. Continuall without interruption an inconvenience common to the mirth of the wicked which comes and goes by fits and lasts but for a moment to speak of when it lasts longest Job 20.5 A man had better be sad then merry so little while For it does but set him a longing and so leave him in paine And yet thus it is with the mirth of the wicked which is therefore compared by the Preacher Eccles 7 6 to the crackling of thornes under a pot It is as soone out as in makes a great cry and dyes 2. Continuall without end everlasting consolation 2 Thess 2 16 like the liberty to which he is redeemed and for which he joyes see the prophecy of Isaih to this purpose chap * And the redeemed of the Lord shall returne come to Zion with songs and ever lasting joy upon their heads they shall obtaine joy and gladnesse and sorrow and sighing shall flee away 35.10 like every thing else that comes by grace and every way that God leads a man in Ps a Lead me in the way everlasting 139.14 Oh happy man how graciously does God deale with him He hath a long time of health and joy and cheerfulnesse of mind now before as men use to have of their bodies after some great disease and joy everlasting after the second resurection for a very short shaking ague of sorrows and pangs when he was borne anew at the first resurection If he have a tempest of trouble or sorrow for awhile he hath the longer and the greater calme for it afterward The godly man's joy is of as long continuance as he himselfe and his power of rejoycing is If he and that endure for ever so shall his joy for the object of his joy endures for ever is not subject to be lost and cannot be taken away from him like the object of a wicked man's joy Si gaudes de nummo times furem si gaudes de Domino quid times sayes Austin upon the 144. Psal If thy joy be in money thou fearest the thiefe but if thy joy be in God whom fearest thou And therefore the same father upon the 84 Psal gives this counsell Qui vult securus gaudere in illo gaudeat qui non potest perire He that will be secure in his joy let his joy be in him who can never perish We may compare this joy as Hugo de S. Victore does God's mercy from whence it drops to the oyle in the cruse which was still spending but never spent The wicked man is ever and anon in the midst of jollity troubled and sad to think that his joy will not last so that it is his usuall saying I shall weep for this another time His mirth wasts and lessens and changes colour in the using according as he sees the vanity of the thing for which he is merry perceives the weaknesse and badnesse of the cause which he will of necessity doe more or lesse within a little time Whereas he godly man's cause of his mirth being sufficient and such as whereof he will never be ashamed his mirth encreases in the use and the more the drinks the better he may Neither need he to feare that he shall be weary so cease from mirth for want of variety for he shall be continually supplyed with recruits new mercies and new songs not every morning but every moment He shall never want occasion to say as David did Sing unto the Lord a new song Psal 96 1 Sing unto him a new song Psal 133.3 He hath put a new song into my mouth Psal 40.3 The Mirth Of a Christian Life The Third Book I Would now use some words of exhortation and reproofe but that I find some rubs in in the way which I must first remove I heare too many object say What doe you goe about to prove this that to extoll the condition of a godly man as if none were merry nor happy but he when as you see your selfe plainly and in your heart cannot but acknowledge the truth of the contrary viz that he is neither happy nor merry That he is not happy is sufficiently evinced by the many troubles we know the righteous as you call them have in all ages of the world and their continuall affliction so as one would think that they alone of all men in the world were made to suffer and borne to misery as the sparks sly upward To say nothing of that which is most certaine by the word that went out of Christ's own mouth which must never returne to him againe peremptorily spoken In the world ye shall have tribulation John 16.33 To such I answer that their argument will not hold stich for want of consequence For godly men may be happy notwitstanding their afflictions and they may say as Paul did 2 Cor 4.8 9. We are troubled on every side yet not distressed we are perplexed but not dispaire Persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed Afflictions in this world are not miseries to them whatever they are to others and what ever they are deemed to be to them any more then fightings and watchings and hardships are to courageous Souldiers and volunteers who are as willing as it would be their shame if they were not to undergoe danger as to undertake service knowing they must take pains as well as wages That afflictions are not miseries to a godly man so as he is unhappy by having them may be proved by these two reasons First beceause he is prepared for them Secondly because they are prepared for him First he is prepared for them as a patient is for his physick viz with gentle preparatories that they may work kindly neither too little nor too much so as he should have either way cause to be grieved God who is his Physitian and therefore will doe the best for him for his own glory as any physitian will for his credit alwaies sends him suffering graces when he intends to give him suffering times Let poverty and sicknesse all the rest of the reputed miseries of this life come upon him like armed men at once they shall not prevaile against him For being well provided with the provision of Hope and Faith and fenced with the armour of prayer and patience and being watchfull and standing still upon his guard let them come as many as they will and let