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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

story called Marcion the first-borne of the Devil All ungodly men are of the same line and race There is very little difference between the Devil and a wicked man but flesh and bones Hence in common speech we call very wicked men Devils incarnate I may say without breach of charity Devils incarnate are made subject at this day and their subjection is the subject of this days rejoycing Notwithstanding in this rejoyce not that these spirits are subject to you rejoyce not much in this Christ Mat. 7. 23. speaks of some who had the power and priviledge to make Devils in kinde subject to them many saith he shall come to me in that day and say Lord Lord we have prophesied in thy name and in thy name we have cast out Devils and we have done many wonderfull works yet these wonder-workers had little cause to rejoyce It is possible for a man not only to subdue the evil spirits of men but to subdue evil spirits themselves take them in their naturall notion and yet to have no cause of rejoycing I am sure they had not because while they had power over Devils themselves were under the power of the Devil The Devils were subject to them yet they were the Devils servants Christ discards them under that relation ver 24. Depart from me ye that work iniquity and whose work is that I know none who put men to that imployment or drudgery rather but only Satan his service is the work of iniquity some may cast out Devils who take in the work of the Devil Hence they who have cast out Devils may be cast to the Devil Had we this power to cast out Devils in kinde our joy would quickly over-joy it unlesse we have learned to out-joy it To further which designe upon these worldly joyes I would speak a few words First to those who have more to rejoyce in then victories over men and cities Secondly to those who upon a true account have no more to rejoyce in To the former my motion is Make the mercies of this day an occasion to act your joy upon eternall mercies It is possible for a godly man to suffer the stream of his joy to run more then is meet in a worldly chanell The best have reason enough to be jealous over their own hearts You are called to rejoyce and I am not a forbidder I would be a helper of your joy Joy is comely and the garments of praise in fashion this day Therefore say to your souls Let us rejoyce and let all that is within us blesse the holy name of God for the great things he hath done for us when you have done this speak again to your souls in the language of the text O our souls rejoyce in better things then these Let us rejoyce that our names are written in Heaven Drink not too large draughts of those worldly comforts go to that which is better and richer wine take your fill in the consolations of God To quicken this I might shew you many most desirable objects I will only hint a few rejoyce that Jesus Christ hath made a perfect conquest for you over spirituall enemies rejoyce that Christ hath spoiled principalities and powers and dragged the Devil at his chariot of triumph when he ascended up to heaven rejoyce that Christ hath overcome death and subdued the grave rejoyce that Christ died to free you from death and hath brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel rejoyce that Christ hath strengthned you to withstand temptations and given you power to conquer passion rejoyce that Christ by accomplishing the work of redemption hath purchased the pardon of sin peace with God and an inheritance which sadeth not away rejoyce that he hath provided a City for you which no Armies shall lay siege unto or shoot an arrow against rejoyce that he hath provided an estate for you that shall never be spent and a Kingdom which shall never be shaken When you hear men are made subject to men rejoyce that Christ hath made you subject to himself when you hear strong holds are taken rejoyce that the strong holds of sin are battered down and taken that there is not an evil imagination in you but if it stir you have a weapon in readines to revenge that disobedience When you heare how they who have fought against Christ are brought low rejoyce that you are not fighting against Christ that you are not trampling his precious blood under your feet that you delight not in that by which the holy spirit is grieved Let loose your affections upon these better higher and more noble objects rejoyce here as much as you can It is altogether below the state of a Saint to rejoyce only in things that are below Secondly I would offer a word to those who have none of these mercies to rejoyce in who have nothing but a world to rejoyce in Poor souls what do you rejoycing what do you keeping dayes of thanksgiving for victories obtained against men and Cities can you rejoyce on these terms can you rejoyce in hopes of peace upon earth when war is proclaimed against you in Heaven Can you rejoyce that Cities are subdued when your hearts are unsubdued Can you give thanks this day that the City of Chester is taken in after five or six Moneths siege when as your own hearts have stood out seven and seven yeers siege against the continuall batteries of the Word Can you rejoyce that strong holds are demolished when you fortify and garison strong holds with legions of lusts with covetousnes pride self-love c. When you victuall them and lay in provision to make them hold out as long as you live against Jesus Christ Can you rejoyce Rather go home and weep over these mercies weep over victories and successes Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your song of joy into a lamentation Leave joy to others Will you keep a day of rejoycing who are likely to mourn and weep for ever rest not in restlesse things live not in an estate wherein you are unfit to dy All the world is not worth the rejoycing in unlesse ye have somewhat else to rejoyce in God forbid saith the Apostle Gal 6. 14. That I should rejoyce in any thing save in the crosse of our Lord Jesus Christ If you have not Christ to rejoyce in God forbids all your other joyes and your sorrowes will be the more bitter to you hereafter by how much your joyes have been now more sweet Weep if any such now offer at this duty weep proud hearts covetous hearts envious spirits c. weep till you bring Christ the spoyl of your lusts till you shew him the ruines of your corruptions weep till you bring him broken hearts till you bring him wills stooping to his word and spirits made subject to his spirit weep till you finde such matter of joy as the text speaks of an evidence that your names are written in heaven But rather