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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

occasions of being displeased and he that hath many occasions of being displeased it is impossible that he should live a merry life be a wicked man It were easy to be large in this point by instancing in severall particulars wherein selfe-love workes the wicked man sorrow But I must remember my own intentions and the Reader 's ease Another thing that a godly man hath to make him mirth is Faith and good turne it hath vertue for that use in regard the godly man's life is most upon it I mean not only faith in Jesus Christ for deliverance from the wrath to come that which is enough of it selfe to make him rejoyce * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet 1.8 with joy unspeakable full of glory but the grace of believing with confidence whatever God sayes of expecting with confidence what ever he promises of trusting to him submitting to his will and wisedome resolving that he can chuse better for us then we can for our selvs that what ever he sends us if it be never so bitter is wholsome fit for our turnes There cannot be a better thing to keep a a man in merry heart then to have continually one to trust to He that trusts to God hath the best cause of mirth because he hath the surest ground of trust viz the Truth of God which is not of no concernment for matter of comfort as it might be if God had never said any thing what he would doe for men in regard that God hath promised so many excellent things which seeing he hath named no particular persons must in all reason be concieved to belong to those that believe him and love him If therefore there be any comfort in any of the word of God the faithfull or the godly man cannot be without it Nay there is certainely in it that wherewith he will keep himselfe from being sad in any condition When any danger is threatned be it from men or the creatures it troubles him least of any Come sayes he As the mountaines are round about Jerusalem so the Lord is round about his people from hence forth and for ever Ps 125.2 Either I shall never meet with any such troubles as they talke of or if I doe I am consident that the Lord will keep me harmelesse for I remember a promise of his When thou passest thorow the waters I will be with thee and thorow the rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walkest thorow the fire thou shalt not be burnt neither shall the flame kindle upon thee Isa 43.2 Suppose it be certaine that he shall suffer he is not so poorely acquainted with God or so ill conceited of him or so little child-like-disposed to be vexed for it He will say It is the Lord Let him doe what seemeth him good 1 Sam 3.18 What shall we recieve good at the hand of God and shall we not recieve evil Job 2.10 What we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us and we gave them reverence shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the father of spirits and live For they verily for a few dayes chastened us after their own pleasure but he for our profit that we might be partakers of his holinesse Heb 12.9.10 But you will say all the faith in the world cannot possibly make him merry when affliction is uppon him Ans Say you so what hath it nothing to comfort a man when he hath most need Then a Pin for faith But certainly it hath For as many things as there are concerning which there is any promise so farre is faith able to Comfort In this case it hath heard and it doubts not of the truth of it that the Lord doth not afflict willingly Lam 3.33 and therefore it hopeth he will not be long in his punishment It considereth That he is God and not man therefore it hopeth that he will not exercise the fiercenesse of his wrath Hos 11.9 It is enough for infidels to lye comfortlesse under afflictions and yet know that God hath said Happy is the man whom God correcteth Job 5.17 And Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth Prov 3.12 Is it nothing in a time of affliction to have an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or substance of such things hoped for as a believer hopes for to stand by a man especially considering that besides the certainty of his hope he knowes withall that these short afflictions which are but for a moment worke a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory 2 Cro 4.17 So great are the comforts encouragements that a godly man hath under affliction that though he will not despise * Prov 3.11 Despise not the chastening of the Lord. the affliction so as to reject it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yet he can in a manner despise it so as not to be affrighted with it made to leave God for a little beating Nay he can comfort himselfe upon thoughts of gaining by affliction Sayes he I love God and I am confident he that loved them that hated him * When we were enemies Christ dyed for us Rom 5.10 will never hate one that loveth him Now I know for the word of God is not to me as the word of man or as a letter or dead as it is to a wicked man that All things worke together for good to them that love God Rom 8.28 I am confident there hath been many an experience of that which is said 2 Cor 7 6 God that comforteth those that are cast down Let a faithfull man's affliction encrease as often as he feels an encrease so often will he repeat Though he slay me yet will I trust in him Job 13.15 He can be merry when he is reproached because it is said If ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you 1 Pet 4.14 If he be slandred and ill thought of through mistake or malice either way it is that which one that is not a Believer can hardly beare without very much discomfort and vexation he hath this cordiall still by him to comfort his heart that God will one day make amends for all and bring forth his righteousnesse as the light and his judgment as the noon-day Ps 37.6 Let him live in never so meane and contemtible fashion and no man regard him he will not be be a jot the lesse merry for that but perhaps the more because he believeth that one time or other God will honour him which is farre better because he hath said Them that honour me I will honour 1 Sam 2.30 If there come any sicknesse near him he can presently say I remember what David said and I doe verily believe him Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noysome pestilence He shall cover thee with his feathers under his wings shalt thou trust his truth shall be thy sheild buckler

partakers of his holinesse must needes come exceeding short of that exceeding weight of glory which they may be said to bring forth in the world to come What Shall he that expects such a harvest of profit having now sown his wheat be out of heart because of the winter Let the seed alone If it doe not yet come upward 't is because it takes root downward and that it may not be forward out of season for so it might be backward when the season comes Nothing better then frost and snow to chasten corne and nothing better for corne then a little chastening Why am I in such hast And why doe I vex and grieve If I can but tarry for all my loss of a temporall health and wealth and happinesse of the body I shall have an unvaluable satisfaction of an eternall health and wealth and happinesse of body and soule to make me amends This could make the primitive Christians at Jerusalem endure the loss of their goods with joy and why should it not me Why should I repine against God for Afflions when I know that they are tokens and pledges and as it were new security of his love This kept David from repining even because he said he knew that God out of very faithfulnesse did afflict him viz because he meant to be faithfull in keeping his promise in his everlasting covenant of grace and not to leave him to himselfe without afflicting him lest being thus left he should sin and so give God occasion to forsake him Why should I be a jot troubled or break my sleep for any persecution when I have God standing by my bed-side So Peter had no doubt and thence it was it that he slept so quietly even between the two souldiers in the prison Why should my soule be disquieted within me when I have God himselfe about my path and about my bed And so had David And therefore though he were persecuted so much never took it a jot to heart but even layd him down and tooke his rest Psal 3.5 I laid me down and slept I awaked for the Lord sustained me And this he said was his resolution still to doe upon that account Psal 4 8. I will both lay me down in peace and sleep for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety Last of all why should I be of a dejected spirit as long as I have a comforter within my very spirit The Spirit of the God of all consolation in whose presence there can as well be want of joy as there can be want of light in the presence of the Sun or want of heat where there is a great fire What doe you talke of sadnesse They that have such to keep them company and such company to keep them safe God in all the persons of the Trinity the blessed Angels cannot be sad if they would To have company that is so comfortable protection that is so near that so is strong protection company both that is so faithfull that never parts that is most willing to helpe when I have most need To think that I have God himselfe not for my helper only one that can will helpe me when I need but even for my very help David says he is a present help in time of trouble so that if I have him I have presently help with the same what all this 't is enough to make me merry if I lay a dying and to say with David Ps 23.4 yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will feare no evill for thou art with me thy rod and thy staffe they comfort me But to this purpose I have spoken before viz when I spoke to the severall grounds and causes of the godly man's joy I will next shew you some Scriptures for a godly mans mirth in Affliction 1. There is Christ's exhortation Mat 5.11 and 12 Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evill against you falsly for my sake Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you Luk 6.22 23 Blessed are ye when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach and cast out your name as evill for the son of man's sake sake Rejoyce ye in that day and leap for joy for behold your reward is great in heaven 2. We are cal'd to patience 1 Pet 2 21 For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps We are none of Christ's souldiers if we cannot endure hardness as Paul said to Timothy 2 Epist 2 3 Thou therefore endure hardness as a good Souldier of Jesus Christ Now we cannot endure hardness if we cannot endure it with cheerfulness For to endure it with repining grieving is not to endure it So any one can doe because he cannot doe otherwise Adde hereunto next Saint James his exhortation chap 1.2 My brethren count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations Paul you have not only his exhortation to rejoyce at all times to the Philippians chap 3 1 Finally my brethren rejoyce in the Lord And to the Corinthians in the last words of his Epistle to them 2 Epist chap. 13.11 Finally brethren farewell Be perfect be of good comfort be of one mind live in peace and the God of love and peace shall be with you But also his desire and constant prayer to God in behalfe of the Colossions ch 1.9 10 11. that they might be strengthned unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulnesse as if their patience and long-suffering had been nothing unless it were joyned with joyfulness 3. You have before you the practise not only of the primitive Christians as of Paul himselfe Colos 1.24 Who now rejoyce in my sufferings for you fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his bodies sake which is the church Of himselfe and others Rom 5.3 And not only so but we glory in tribulations also knowing that tribulation worketh patience And of the Hebrewes 10.34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that you in heaven a better and an enduring substance But of the Saints also in former ages as of David Psal 119 92. Vnless thy law had been my delight I should then have perished in my affliction And of many others Some of whom you have recounted Hebr 11. So that you have not only a cloud of witnesses to shew that it may be so but a large catalogue of good examples to prove that it should be so in you I meane that you should rejoyce in afflictions as they did through the comfort of hope and the strength of faith resolving as David did that you will not feare though the earth be removed and the