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A16935	The oyle of gladnesse: or, Musicke at the house of mourning Deliuered in III severall sermons by Rob: Allvvyn, Master of Artes and rector of Stedham cum Heysbot, in the county of Suffex. 1631. And now vpon intreaty published.	Allwyn, Robert.	1631 (1631)	STC 383; ESTC S115911	44,763	178

and for ever Amen Amen THE SECOND Sermon OVr fellowship is with the Father and with his Sonne Iesus Christ and these things write we unto you that your Ioy may be full 1. Ioh. 1.4 1. Ioh. 1● I sate downe under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet unto my taste He brought me into his banqueting house and his banner over mee was love Cant. 2.3.4 Cant. 2 3 4 Hìc est ignis quem voluit Christus vehementèr accendi Bern. of Spirituall Ioy. Declamat Bernard August Qui in viâ sic pascit in Patriâ quomodò saginabit August in Psal Bernard Quid erit in Patriâ si tanta est copia delectationis in viâ Bern. Declam PHIL. 4. The latter part of the 4. Verse Againe I say Reioyce THere is a deplored there is a desperate opinion of the wicked That Piety is pensive That the Saints are men of sorrowes That they wast their lives with heavinesse and their yeares with mourning True it is I confesse that many are the afflictions divers and sundry are the pressures the troubles of the Righteous But that which makes a man eyther miserable or happy it is not his passion but action not that which he suffereth but doth If it bee good sorrow may lye at the doore but there is no ingresse it cannot enter into it for that which is nearer than the joynts and the marrow all his inward parts they are possessed they are taken up with an hidden with a secret Ioy. So that what is without say that it may raze the skinne sure I am it cannot pierce the soule Our Rejoycing it is not shallow nor superficiall it is in the hidden man of the heart it is the testimony of a good conscience 2. Cor. 1.12 let it be sprinkled with the bloud of the Lambe let it be purged from the evill of actions and affections and behold the bones that were broken shall flourish You shall heare of joy and gladnesse and sorrow and sighing shall flye a way What is sayd of Wisedome is true of Religion also at first she will walke with him Eccles. 4.17 that is her Disciple by crooked wayes and bring feare and dread upon him and torment him with her Discipline untill she may trust his soule and try him by her Lawes and comfort him then will she returne the straight way unto him and shew him her secrets So in the Schoole of Repentance first anxiety and sorrow first terror and contrition and after this great a calme after this Iubilation and Ioy. Lodo vic Viv. Nec aliud conatur pietas Christiana quàm ut serenitas humanos actus exhilaret tranquilitate animorum compositisque affectionibus simus Deo Angelis quàm simillimi So Lodovicus Vives answeres the misprision of them that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter that are mistaken in the supposed austeritie and strictnesse of Religion Prov. 3.17 whose wayes are wayes of pleasantnesse and her pathes are Peace All that shee enjoynes it is what Not to cut our selves with knives and lances 1. King 18.28 not to sacrifice our sonnes and Daughters unto Divels Wisd 12.5 Wisd 5.7 not to goe through Desarts where there lyes no way but that even here upon earth having suppressed our passions and composed our affections wee may anticipate our Heaven and in tranquility and peace resemble the Lord and his Angels of Light Againe I say Reioyce The parts you remember First an affection incited unto Act Reioyce Secondly An Object In the Lord. Thirdly the Longitude of the affection Alwayes Fourthly the Magnitude Againe I say Reioyce For the present we are to observe First the Matter Reioyce Secondly the Manner Againe Thirdly the forme informing or indeed the bond of both I say Or thus First there is an Ingemination of an exhortation Againe Secondly there is the party Exhorting exprest or at least imployed in the verse I say Thirdly the poinct or affection exhorted Reioyce Of these in their order and first of the Repetition Againe It is the Dialect of joy it is the phrase of a comforter the voyce of the Holy-Ghost himselfe Gen. 3.8 Luk. 15.20 who as he walketh in his Iustice so hee runneth in his mercy As he expresseth our sorrowes with an Aposiopesis so our joyes with an Epizeuxis He sighes out the one but hee speakes once yea twice he ingeminates the other and sometimes more Though no Tautology not a word in his Booke but is weighed in the Ballance yet hath many Synonymies dilation of phrase to expresse this celestiall affection Sing Zeph. 3.14 O Daughter Syon Shout O Israel be glad and reioyce O Daughter Ierusalem The Lord hath taken away thy Iudgments hee hath cast out thine Enemie Zephan 3.14 See beloved how affluent how full of water is the River of the Lord. Psal 65 10. Like that which he spyed out for his people Iosh 3.15 It overfloweth his bankes in the time of Harvest Once againe nay a third time and more hee inculcates one and the selfe-same thing So in the Psalmes Psal 68.3 Let the Righteous be glad and reioyce in the Lord let them also be merry and ioyfull In a word throughout this whole volume you shall seldome heare of this Heavenly affection without an Ingemination at least Reioyce in his holy name saith the sweet singer of Israel Psal 105.3 Let the heart of them reioyce that seeke the Lord. And againe Psal 149.2 Let Israel reioyce in him that made him and let the children of Syon be ioyfull in their King Thus hee watereth the Hils from above hee sendeth raine into the little Vallyes Psal 65.11 He maketh them soft with the drops of the first of the former and the latter raine Haec locutus these things and thus have I spoken unto you Ioh. 15.11 that my joy might remaine in you and that your joy might be full Heare his Disciple and you cannot but confesse that he leaned on his bosome Surely thou art one of them for thy very speech bewrayes thee These things I write unto you that your Ioy might be full 1. Ioh. 1.4 1. Ioh. 1.4 So our Apostle O the heavenly harmony of the Songs of the Sonnes of Syon here is a whole Quire a choyce Consort of him that spake as never mā spake of him that tooke pleasures in afflictions Christ and his Disciples Rejoyce alwayes in the Lord. And againe A word as the Wise-man speaketh of a Consort of Musicke with Wine like a Carbuncle set in gold Eccles 32.5 Againe I say Rejoyce Ambr. apud Lyram in locum Hoc adeò necessarium est vobis quod iterum dico gaudete non ut quaedam alia semel saith St. Ambrose as he is alleadged by Lyra. Hee that speakes but once for the most part in the incitation of other things he doubles his exhortation of joy and without doubt there is