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A91743	Joy in the Lord opened in a sermon preached at Pauls, May 6. / By Edward Reynolds, D.D.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1261; Thomason E844_1; ESTC R203409	25,402	48

world and one Sun more light then all the Luminaries in heaven so one Christ is more All to a poor soul then if it had the All of the whole world a thousand times over 4. He is a most pure good without any mixture of dross or bitterness to abate or corrupt the excellency of it A Lamb without spot and blemish 1 Pet. 1. 19. He did no sin no guile was found in his mouth 1 Pet. 2. 22 Holy harmless undefiled Heb. 7. 26. Never any believer found any thing in him for the which to repent of making choice of him as holy Polycarp said I have served him these eightysix years and he never did me any hurt even the severest things of Christ are matter of joy unto his servants If he make them sorrowful their sorrow is turned into joy Iohn 16. 20. his very yoke is easie his burden light his Commandments not grievous nay his very cross and afflictions matter of choice of joy of gloriation of triumph Heb. 11. 25 26. Acts 5. 41. Rom. 5. 3. Rom. 8. 37. It was an heroical speech of Luther Malo ego cum Christo ruere quam cum Caesare stare I had rather fall with Christ then stand with Caesar And if his sufferings are so sweet O then how glorious are his consolations 5. He is the rarest good in the world his whole name is Wonderfull Isa. 9. 6. his whole dispensation mysterious 1 Tim. 3. 16. the invisible God manifested a Son born of a Virgin the Law-giver made under the Law the Lord of Glory who thought it no robbery to be equal with God humbled emptied in the form of a servant reckoned amongst transgressors without form or comeliness rejected despised put to shame a man of sorrows a dead man raised by his own power and advanced to the Throne of God these and all the particulars Christ crucified are things so profound and unsearchable that the very Angels desire to look into them with wonder and astonishment 1 Pet. 1. 12. The best and most excellent things God hath made single one Sun in the Firmament one Tree of Life in Paradice one heart one head in the body So to us there is but one Lord Iesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him He the alone living elect pretious chief corner stone no other name under heaven given amongst men whereby we must be saved Acts 4. 11 12. 6. As a rare good so full of exquisite and copious variety wisdom righteousnesse sanctification redemption It pleased the Father that in him all fulnesse should dwel Col. 1. 19. In him he hath made known unto Principalities and Powers the manifold wisdom of God Eph. 3 10. As the curious Ephod in the Law was made of Gold blew purple scarlet and fine twined linnen and the breast-plate set with twelve curious pretious stones So Christ the substance of those types was filled with the spirit of wisdom understanding counsel might knowledge and the fear of God Isa. 11. 2. and that above measure Iohn 3. 34. That there might be enough in him to answer all the desires and delights of his people Wisdom to teach righteousness to justifie grace to renew power to defend peace to comfort life to quicken glory to save them seven eyes upon one stone 7. He is a most prevailing and victorious good stronger then the strong man Luke 11. 22 casting out and judging the Prince of the world Iohn 12. 31. 16 11. abolishing death 2 Tim. 1. 10. taking away sin destroying the works of the Devil 1 John 3. 3. and overcoming the world and the lusts thereof John 16. 33. treading all his Churches enemies under his and their feet 1 Cor. 15 15. triumphing openly over them in his cross before God and Angels Col. 2. 15. ascending up on high and leading captivity captive Ephes. 4. 8. 1. By a way of wisdom catching Satan by the hook of his divine power hidden under the infirmities of his human nature 2. By a way of Judgement condemning him for shedding the innocent bloud of the Son of God 3. By a way of Power vanquishing him and casting him out of the possession which he had purchast 8. He is a perpetual and durable good Death hath no more dominion over him Rom. 6. 9. He ever lives to make intercession Heb. 7. 25. there is an Oath an Amen upon the perpetuity of the life and Priesthood of Christ Psal. 110. 4. Rev. 1. 18. Behold I am alive for evermore Amen And he lives not only for ever in his person but he is for ever the life portion and blessedness of his people Because he lives they live John 14. 19. they shall appear with him they shall be like unto him As he is sate on his Fathers Throne so shall they sit on his Throne never to be degraded Lastly He is the proper good of his own people He hath not only given himself unto God for them as their Sacrifice but he hath given himself likewise unto them as their Portion He is theirs and they his Cant. 6. 3. They his by a dear purchase and he theirs by a sweet communion They are said to have him John 5. 12. as a man hath his most peculiar possession his name is The Lord our righteousness Jer. 23. 6. he is made unto us of God wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption 1 Cor. 1. 30. he is more ours then we are our own we have and possess infinitely more in him then in our selves defective in our selves compleat in him weak in our selves strong in him dead in our selves alive in him miserable in ourselves blessed in him mutable in our selves established in him Thus we see there is nothing necessary to the compleating of an object of joy which is not fully to be found in Christ Unto these grounds of joy drawn from the nature of delectable objects I shall add a few more mentioned by the Prophet Zachary Chap. 9. 9 10. drawn from the Royal Office of Christ Rejoice greatly O daughter of Sion shout O daughter of Ierusalem behold thy King cometh unto thee he is just and having salvation lowly and riding upon an ass c. 1. He is a King thy King the promised Messiah in whom all blessings were to be made good unto Israel They had been servants under strange Lords Nehem. 9. 36 37. and so had we The Prince and God of this world had the first possession of us Eph. 2. 2. But they were to have a King of their own from among their brethren Deut. 17. 15. Their Governor was to proceed from the midst of them Ier. 30. 21. And this must needs be matter of great joy That whereas oppressors did pass through them before v. 8. the King now promised them should be a near kinsman should not be ashamed to call them brethren Heb. 2. 11. The shout of a King should be amongst them who should have the strength of an Unicorn able to break the bones of

the evils and enemies that assault him no joy to the joy of a triumph when men divide the spoils In this case Iehosaphat and his people came to Ierusalem with Psalteries Harps and Trumpets to the house of God rejoicing over their enemies 2 Cron. 20. 25 20. 8. It must be a perpetual good commensurate in duration to the soul that is to be satisfied with it they are but poor and lying delights which like Iordan empty all their sweetness into a stinking and sulphurious lake True comfort is a growing thing which never bends to a declination That man will find little pleasure in his expedition whose voyage is for a year and his victual but for a day who sets out for eternity with the pleasures and contents of nothing but mortality Such are all natural sensual secular sinful joies As the sheep feeds on the grass and then the owner feeds on him so poor sinners feed awhile on dead comforts and then death at last feeds on them Psal. 49. 14. Lastly That which crowns and consummates all is it must be our own proper good all the rest without this signifie nothing unto us A begger feels not the joy of another mans wealth nor a cripple of another mans strength the prisoner that is leading to death hath no comfort in the pardon which is brought to another malefactor As every man must live by his own faith so every man must have his rejoicing in himself and not in another Gal. 6. 4. Now then let us consider the Apostle and High-Priest of our profession Christ Jesus and we shall find him alone in every one of these particulars to be a most adequate object of the joy and delight of all his people 1. He is a Good ever more present with them I am with you alway Mat. 28. 20. though bodily absent and that for the expediency and comfort of his servants Iohn 16. 7. yet in his Ordinances and by his Spirit ever amongst them You shall see me saith he to his Disciples because I go to my Father Iohn 16. 16. whereby is not only intimated his purpose of appearing unto them before his ascension but with all the full manifestation of himself unto them when he was gon by sending the holy spirit per cujus vicariam vim his bodily absence should be abundantly compensated By that spirit his people are joined unto him as the feet below to the head above 1 Cor. 6. 17. by that spirit in the Gospel he Preacheth peace unto them Eph. 2. 17. and is evidently set forth before them Gal. 3. 1. by that spirit he dwelleth in them Eph. 3. 17. manifests himself unto them makes his aboad with them Iohn 14 20-23 Rev. 3. 20. walks in the midst of them as in his house and Temple 2 Cor. 6. 16. is more present with them then any good thing they have besides Some things are present with us in our eye in our possession yet still without us as Goods or Friends some things more intimate but yet separable from us as health strength our soul it self but Christ is not only with us but in us Col. 1. 27. not only in us but inseparably abiding with us Rom. 8. 38 39. As in the Hypostatical union there is an inseparable conjunction of the manhood to the Godhead in one person so in the mystical union there is an inseparable conjunction of the members to the head in one Church or body 2. He is not an ordinary common good which if a man want he may compensate by some other thing but a Treasure and Pearl of highest price in whom are unsearchable riches Eph 3. 8. Hidden treasures Col. 2. 3. in comparison of whom all other things are loss and dung Phil. 3. 7 8. most precious in the eyes of his people 1 Pet. 2. 7. precious in his own immediate excellencies the chiefest of ten thousand Cant. 5. 10-16 precious in the respects he bears towards us in the sweet and intimate relations of an Husband an Head a Saviour a Brother a Father a Friend a Surety a Mediator a Propitiation an Advocate Pretious in the great things he hath done for us in the rich supplies of grace and peace he doth bestow upon us in the high dignity whereunto he advanceth us John 1. 12. 1 Iohn 3. 1. Rom. 8. 15 16. in the great promises he makes unto us 2 Pet. 1. 2 3 4. in the glorious hope which he sets before us and blessed mansions which he prepareth for us Col. 1. 27. Iohn 14. 2. in the light of his countenance shining on us in the fruits of his spirit wrought in us in the present life of faith in the hidden life of glory in the great price he paid for us in the great care which he takes of us in the effusions and manifestations of the love of God unto us In the Seals Pleadges Testimonies first-fruits of our eternal inheritance which he is pleased by his spirit to shead forth upon us in the free and open way which he hath made for us unto the Throne of grace in these and many other the like is the Lord Christ more honorable and precious in the eyes of his people then a thousand worlds could be without him 3. He is not only a most present and a most precious good but full and sufficient for his people He ascended on high that he might fill all things Eph. 4. 10. that he might powre forth such abundance of spirit on his Church as might answer all the conditions whereunto they may be reduced Righteousness enough to cover all their sins plenty enough to supply all their wants grace enough to subdue all their lusts wisdom enough to resolve all their doubts power enough to vanquish all their enemies vertue enough to cure all their diseases fulness enough to save them and that to the uttermost all other good things below and without him have a finit and limited benignity Some can cloath but cannot feed others can nourish but they cannot heal others can enrich but they cannot secure others adorn but cannot advance all do serve but none do satisfie They are like a beggers coat made up of many pieces not all enough either to beautifie or defend but there is in Christ something proportionable to all the wants and desires of his people He is Bread wine milk living-water to feed them Iohn 6. 51. 7. 37. he is a garment of righteousness to cover and adorn them Rom. 13. 14. a Physician to heal them Mat. 9. 12. a Counseller to advise them Isa 9. 6. a Captain to defend them Heb. 2. 10. a Prince to rule a Prophet to teach a Priest to make attonement for them an Husband to protect a Father to provide a Brother to relieve a Foundation to support a Root to quicken an Head to guide a Treasure to enrich a Sun to enlighten a Fountain to cleanse As the one Ocean hath more waters then all the Rivers in the