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A95842	An antidote against sorrovv, in order to the obtaining of sanctified joy. An excellent treatise first written in French by N. Vedelius, then translated into Latine by Gallus Pareus, and now into English, by Cadwallader Winne, M.A.	Vedel, Nicolaus, 1596-1642.; Winne, Cadwallader, b. 1622 or 3, translator.	1650 (1650)	Wing V167; Thomason E1421_1; ESTC R209478	59,453	229

Elkanahs wife being in bitternesse of soule to bee drunke grounding his conjecture upon some signes he had observed in her misperswading himselfe This conjecture notwithstanding is sometimes true whereof Amon is an example who when hee had an intention to commit incest with his sister was vexed insomuch that he fell sick by reason of anguish of heart How Ahab was overwhelmed with sorrow when hee could not enjoy another mans goods Naboths vineyard How heavy was Antiochus the Tyrant when his sacrilegious will could not put into execution the devastation of Jerusalem And was not Herod sorry because of the rash oath hee made to that infamous Herodias which beheaded John Baptist It is a symptome oftentimes of hypocrisie which our Saviour intimates when he saith Be not as the Hypocrites with a sad countenance Mat. 9.16 Further experience teacheth that those that are more naturally prone thereunto are proud and cruell What hath been said doth manifest its deformity and shew that it out-strips in filthinesse and uglinesse even those cruell beasts which superstitions Aegypt did adore and now seeing thou art one of the number of Gods children beware thou givest it an habitation in thy soule the temple of the Holy Ghost but rather let thy mind abound in all godly mirth which is as befitting thy eminent condition as sorrow is unbeseeming He that rejoyceth according to Gods commandment receives adversity at his hands as thankfully as prosperity He patiently submits his neck to the yoake Hee knowes the crosse to be the cognizance of Gods love and a most soveraigne cure for his spirituall disease the end of his conflict victory the crowne of the lambe and eternall glory He confides in God and resteth upon his promises committing his care unto him to provide all necessaries Hee payes his vowes he offers daily the sacrifice of prosperity and with the calves of his lips his morning and evening oblation he serves God cheerfully and with fervent zeale he is at peace with his neighbour and meekly covers his failings he knowes this world to be a place of pilgrimage heaven to bee his countrey whither hee steeres with cheerfulnesse not suffering himselfe to be misled out of the way thither by any occasion though seeming weighty to flesh and bloud He placeth his happinesse in God he makes a difference betwixt such grievous afflictions as come of their owne accord and those whereinto hee plunges him-himselfe The former as being unavoidable he patiently endures the latter hee warily eschews Hee knows that his soule is not a slave or vassall to his body but Gods servant He resisteth adversitie with an unconquerable courage he is of such an heroicall mind as beseemes him who is the Prince of the creatures his countenance void of hypocrisie and pride speaks the happinesse and majestie appropriated onely to Gods children yea his countenance and all his gestures intimate his mirth and integrity which resteth in his bosome and evidently shew he is in no wise given to this world And howsoever his body being his viler and ignobler part is here upon earth yet his soule being the nobler and diviner hath its conversation in heaven like Jacobs ladder whose lower part was set upon the earth the top reaching to heaven He obeyes the advice of the wise man who saith A cheerfull and good heart will have care of his meat and diet Eccl. 30.27 that is will rid it selfe of impieties and sorrow which as they are exceeding unbecomming so they are as hereafter shall bee declared pernicious and hurtfull Here thou seest a briefe character of such a one as rejoyceth in the Lord judge then whether thou dost not amisse in preferring vice before vertue filthinesse before honesty monstrous deformity before heavenly beauty the representation or Idaea of hell where there is nothing but weeping and gnashing of teeth before the resembance of God and heavenly felicity CHAP. II. The second ground or reason is drawne from the pernicious effects thereof HItherto thou hast seen one only table now thou shalt behold another more deformed than the former for the vitiosity of sorrow consisteth not onely in filthinesse and deformity but in a greater measure of evill it being not onely monstrous to be lookt upon but very dangerous and pernicious which is so much the more difficult to bee discerned by how much it shrowds it selfe under hypocriticall love and while it beguiles us under the mask of friendship promising I know not what comfort and profit But if thou wilt prie more narrowly into it thou shalt discover it to be no lesse traiterous unto thee than was Joab unto Amasa who under the vizard of friendship sheathed his sword in his bowels Thou shalt perceive it to be thy malicious enemy and so much the more to bee feared by how much it bee more familiar with thee Thou shalt discover it to be a serpent that thou nourishest in thy bosome and a viper that thou engendrest for thy owne destruction And I beseech thee what profit and comfort canst thou purchase thereby seeing it is but vanity Heare the spirit of God saying What hath a man of all his labours and of the vexation of his heart wherein hee hath laboured under the sunne For all his dayes are sorrowes and his travell griefe yea his heart taketh not rest in the night time This is also vanity Eccles 2.22,23 Heare the wife man also who saith that therein there is no profit Eccl. 30.25 It is conducible then neither to thy soule nor body neither furthereth it thy affaires unlesse thou enjoyest some peculiar privilege not afforded any one living Will it restore unto thee thy countrey which is now in the power of thy enemies will it rid thee of thy miseries will it deliver thee from injuries and molestations will it performe thy businesse will it provide or care for thy family will it pay thy debts will it prosperously discharge thee from thy law sutes will it extoll thee to honours and dignities shalt thou thereby obtain more health more strength more knowledg more esteeme more love No verily for future things are not within thy power and what is past cannot be recalled Go to then thou little miserable caytiffe hide thy selfe in some corner or other labour with might and maine search out all the meanes and occasions to diminish it Weigh a thousand and a thousand times with thy selfe the high stature of Goliah afflict thy selfe as being of a little stature thou wilt never attaine to his In short all worldly sorrow is vaine and unprofitable and would it were onely so thou shalt find it grievous and most pernicious unlesse with speed thou dischargest thy selfe there from Know this it drawes after it a numerous swarme of evils aswell corporall as spirituall as touching temporall evils it makes mans life altogether miserable infinitly increasing the miseries that are the ordinary concomitants thereof whether thou considerest his businesses and counsells the calamities themselves or at last his whole person As

world Joh. 5.4 But what is it to overcome it It is not for one to make himselfe a slave thereunto neither to stoop to adversities on the one side nor to place his felicity therein on the other Hee that doth this may assuredly perswade himselfe to be borne of God and to enjoy Gods benevolence and grace whereby the world is vanquished Contrarily one by being sorrowfull plainly testifieth that he is desperately in love with this world Moreover it openeth a gap to the devill to assault him with divers temptations and bring him into thousand evills and hainous sinnes The murtherer Cain may serve for an example whose anger was not onely kindled but his countenance fell assoone as God disrespected his sacrifice which moved him to kill his brother It induces him to become an Apostate or revolter from the true Religion subscribing and consenting to the lies of Satan when calamity is set before his view as Poverty banishment imprisonment and death which hee is bound to suffer for the confession of truth It makes him dispaire and to lay violent hands upon himselfe and ministreth an opportunity to the devill to set aside his proper shape and appear unto such as give themselves thereunto visibly as it hapned to the Egyptians in times past which were as the wise man witnesseth scattered under a darke vaile of forgetfulnesse being horribly astonished and troubled with strange apparitions Wisd 7.3 It gives way to the envious man the devill to perswade him to make a covenant with him and renounce his baptisme as witches are wont to doe which being done hee possesseth vexeth and tormenteth him after a wonderfull manner Behold the mischiefes thereof behold the off-spring the sorrowfull man breedeth in his bosome who seeth not that the grievousest plague is that of the heart Eecl 25.13 And it cannot be but it should produce the greatest mi●fortune and misery it being the grievousest punishment and curse which God threatneth to the transgressors of his Law The Lord shall give thee a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind Deut. 28.65 I will distresse Jerusalem and there shall be heavinesse and sorrow it shall be unto me as Ariel Esay 29.2 Thus saith the Lord of the inhabitants of Jerusalem and of the land of Israel they shall eat their bread with carefulnesse Ez. 12.19 Remove farre from thee this most dangerous disease and embrace Godly mirth which as hath been said doth not onely become Gods children but affords excellent commodities It represents to the joyfull mans view the happy successe of future things causing him to beare all things patiently and to follow his businesses or employments or forgoe them having regard to time and other circumstances And howsoever all things fall not out according to his mind yet he is contented with his condition Hee handles worldly things as they are in their owne nature fading and indifferent and being not clogg'd by them he goes on lustily in the way of life till hee hath prosperously finished his journey Hee leads his life as quietly as hee can in this world neither aggravates it with new miseries being burthensome enough of it selfe His understanding is sound and perfect in that hee judgeth not according to his affection but as reason directeth him his body is recreated and refreshed thereby Hee knowes experimentally what Solomon speakes of a merry heart doth good like a medicine Prov. 17.22 A merry heart hath a continuall feast Prov. 15.15 and againe The gladnesse of the heart is the life of man and the joyfulnesse of a man prolongeth his dayes Eccl. 30.22 Moreover one endued with this sanctified joy is most assured of Gods love and throughly furnished against Satan so as he cannot exercise his power and force upon him In briefe the blessing of the heavenly father resteth upon him and in that hee rejoyceth it is the worke of grace and because he rejoyceth in God it is an infallible signe that God hath pleasure in him Wherefore be not sorry for the joy of the Lord is our strength Neh. 8.11 and say I will greatly rejoyce in the Lord my soul shall be joyfull in my God Esay 61.10 CHAP. III. The third ground or reason why the faithfull man should abandon it and be joyfull is drawn from Gods spirituall grace in Iesus Christ THere is nothing which should beget a greater measure of joy in the faithfull man than the contemplation and enjoyment of spirituall benefits which God hath conferred upon him for thereby he is freed from the grievousnesse of his misery and translated into a most happy condition which thou faithfull soule being in misery and sorrow which now boils within thee and is fixed in thy breast shouldst especially take into consideration That thou maist cleerly perceive as thou oughtest Gods grace and judge more rightly of the excellency of his benefits Consider with me I beseech thee these three things to wit thy state past present and to come What is man in respect of his past estate but naturally the child of wrath and eternall condemnation for whereas he was originally created after the image of God now hee is deprived thereof by his incredulity and rebellion which is the cause that by the most just sentence of God hee is adjudged to death that is to all manner of miseries spirituall and corporall temporall and eternall wherein hee involved all his posterity Hence it is that man is conceived and borne in sin and so being deprived of righteousnesse he inclines to all vice his understanding darkned his will maliciously bent all his affections depraved and out of order Out of this corrupt fountaine it cannot be but an infectious and corrupt streame should flow to wit perverse abominable thoughts words answerable to the abundance depravation of his heart actions altogether unsavory to Gods will Briefely he is dead in sinnes and so cursed in the sight of God unto whom that speech of Martha may be applied Lord by this time he stinketh for he hath beene dead foure dayes Jo. 11.39 for whereas once hee was the temple of God how he is become a noisome den and sinke whereinto that infernall soule disburthens his filth Nay hee rebells against God and enters into acts of hostility the wrath of God is thereupon revealed from heaven against all his unrighteousnesse and ungodlinesse Rom. 1.17 Being left then to himselfe by Gods judgement he followes his own wayes he is given to a reprobate sense whereupon he feeles divers curses inflicted by God who either punisheth him in his goods in his body in his honours or in such as are deere unto him one while hee armes the heaven to be his enemy otherwhile the Elements otherwhile beasts otherwhile he makes men to fall out amongst themselves At length he cuts him off from the land of the living whom vengeance dogges no lesse than before for his soule no sooner forsakes the body but it endureth infernall paines untill the resurrection at what time the