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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61729	The rule of rejoycing, or, A direction for mirth in a sermon preached upon Trinity-Sunday, being the 18th of June in the year of our Lord 1671 / by John Straight ...	Straight, John, 1605?-1680.	1671 (1671)	Wing S5806; ESTC R15245	21,782	32

remission of sin One dram of this joy out-values all the loads of the other sorrow Like men over-burdened we feel most comfortable ease when the Cross of Christ takes all this weight from our shoulders When sin is remitted nothing can much afflict The greatest sorrow to the heart penitent proves the greatest joy to the heart pardoned It is not possible for joy and comfort to be there absent where Gods kindness is present Can that heart be void of Consolation which is inhabited by the God of Consolation May he who hath the Fountain and Ocean of Gladness within him remain a dry Pit and be utterly empty and void of gladness No no they who have been pressed with the burden of sin will be much refreshed with deliverance from it They who have been terrified with the guiltiness of sin and the horrible sight of Damnation cannot chuse but be joyful at the pardon thereof when their Souls are lifted up with the hope of Salvation As Oyl will overtop all other Liquors and cannot be kept under so will this joy overtop all other Sorrows and cannot be suppressed The second cause of Gods Childrens weeping here on Earth is for the sins of others Davids Eyes gush'd Psal 119. 136. 2 Pet. 2. 8. out with Rivers of Tears because men kept not Gods Laws And righteous Lot mourns for the ungodly conversation of the wicked Sodomites For he being righteous saith S. Peter and dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous Soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds Yet they are to rejoyce in this also First Because God keepeth them from committing such sins as others do commit because they are preserved from ●●●ing with others into the same excess of riot And then Secondly Because God will wound the hairy scalp of such 1 Pet. 4. 4. Psal 58. 10. as go on still in their wickedness And the Righteous shall rejoyce saith the Psalmist when he seeth the vengeance Thirdly The Third Cause of their weeping is for the Judgments of God upon the Land The Prophet Jeremiah Jer. 9. 1. weeps most abundantly for this Oh that mine head saith he were full of water and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the Daughter of my people The Captivity of Babylon Psal 137. 4. marred the Mirth of Jerusalem How shall we sing the Lords Song in such distress in a strange Land Certainly when God troubles the state of our Peace he would trouble the eyes of our heads when the Thunder shakes the Air the Clouds weep to still it Nothing is more without comfort than Darkness nor is there any thing more without joy than Calamity How then shall we rejoyce in this when the Judgments of God are abroad in the Earth Yes thus Beloved First Because God hath hitherto preserved us from the Judgments upon the Land as namely from Plague Pestilence Fire and Famine from Battel Murder and sudden death insomuch as we may say with the Prophet David A thousand have fallen at our left hand and ten thousand at Psal 91. 7. our right hand but it hath not come near us Unto Gods Children there is alwayes comfort in calamity unto the righteous there ariseth Light in Darkness They need not be afraid for the terrour by night nor for the Arrow that Psal 112. 4. Psal 91. ●5 flieth by day And then secondly They may rejoyce again in this that if so be it should please God to take them away by any sweeping Judgment yet their Souls cannot be touched they are sure to be saved and to be carried into Abrahams Bosom It is enough to make Luk. 16. 22 them rejoyce in any Judgment whatsoever happens to know that it shall work together for the best for them Rom. 8. 28. Fourthly The Fourth cause of Gods Childrens weeping is for the afflictions of poor Joseph for them that are tossed from Post to Pillar for them that are driven from house and home in a word for them that are for Christs sake brought to great extremity Mine eye casteth out Rivers of water saith the Prophet Jeremy for the Lam. 3. 48 49. destruction of the Daughter of my people yea mine eye droppeth without stay and ceaseth not But how shall we rejoyce in this Yes thus First Because the light afflictions of this present life do cause an eternal weight of Glory yea a far more excellent and eternal weight of Glory as the blessed Apostle assures us And then Secondly because Sanguis Martyrum est Semen Ecclesiae because the blood of Martyrs is the seed of the Church What is a few drops of Blood here to the Kingdom of Heaven hereafter My Brethren saith S. James count Jam. 1. 2. it exceeding joy when ye fall into divers Temptations What S. James joy in trouble joy in affliction Will the world believe you S. James Yes the world of Elect will they have proved it they have learned this benefit by good experience they have found their sorrows have been turned into joy heaviness might endure for a night but joy hath come in the morning We are not destitute of comfort even here in the midst of fiery trials blessed be God for it but this is nothing to that which is to be revealed The glory to come doth every way surmount the present afflictions of Gods Children and therefore in this they have cause to rejoyce also Fifthly The Fifth cause of Gods Childrens weeping is for the loss of dear Friends thus David we read mourned for Jonathan Woe is me for thee my Brother Jonathan Thus 2 Sam. 1. 26 Jo. 11 33 35. Mary yea and Christ himself do weep for Lazarus And how shall we do to rejoyce in this Yes thus we may yea and thus we must rejoyce in this First Because they rest from their Labours And secondly Because they are delivered Rev. 14. 13. from the Evils to come They are happy whose glass is well run out Foelices nimium quibus est Fortuna peracta as the Poet most divinely They rest from those Labours which tire us that live and the works which we are to follow follow them And are not these sufficient Causes of rejoycing in that Particular Sixthly and lastly Gods Children are to weep because they are but as Pilgrims and Strangers here on earth For 2 Cor. 5. 2. therefore we sigh saith the Apostle desiring to be cloathed with our house which is from heaven Yet they are to rejoyce in this too First Because they have most Royal Mansions Joh. 14. 2 3. prepared for them in heaven And secondly Because they are sure to be possessed of them in the end Thus you see Gods Children though they be as sorrowing continually 2 Cor. 6. 10. yet are they also alway rejoycing Rejoyce in the Lord alway Dost thou feel now in thy self the Evidences and Pledges Applic. of the favour of God in Christ