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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

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 Master of Arts sometime a Member of Queens-Colledge in Cambridge now Vicar of Stourepaine in the County of Dorset and Chaplain to the Right Reverend Father in God Dr. John Davenant late Lord Bishop of Sarum Temporalibus gaudent qui bona aeterna non norunt desiderare Aug. in Psal 52. We will rejoyce in thy Salvation and triumph in the Name of the Lord our God Psal 20. 5. LONDON Printed for Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1671. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY To his Loving Parishioners and good Neighbours the Inhabitants of Stourepaine in the County of Dorset JOHN STRAIGHT their Aged Vicar dedicateth this Rule of Rejoycing My good Neighbours THere are too many pluckt away with the Errours of these Seditious and Schismatical Times How much it hath been my care to keep you upright and preserve you from Schism Faction and Separation you cannot chuse but witness for me I am now grown old and ready to go the way of all Flesh and seeing I have received some part of my temporal Maintenance from you I thought it meet for me before I go hence and be no more seen to bestow some spiritual Gift upon you by which I might by Gods Blessing upon it so season your Rom. 1. 11. outward Enjoyments as you might be furthered in your passage to that Countrey which I trust you seek after Give me leave to make use Heb. 11. 14. of a part of S. Peters Expression to the Cripple at the Temple Gate Such as I have give I unto Acts 3. 6. you a few Printed Leaves of Paper which are indeed the best Monuments and sutablest Remembrances that a Minister can leave behind him to his People by which he being dead may with Abel yet speak unto you If S. Paul was Phil. 3. 1. not ashamed to write the same things again sure it is no presumption then in me to present that now to your views which not long since I committed to your ears It seemed welcome to you then I hope you will kindly accept of it now not only entertain it as a testimony of my Love and dear Affection to you but that which is far better viz. That you will make that good use of it for which it was intended which was the rectifying of your Joy here while I am with you and the continuance of your Comfort hereafter when I am dead and taken from you If God shall move your hearts as I trust he hath begun to do and will more to the entertainment of that which is the principal Subject of this Sermon it will make you shun the Atheistical prophaneness of these Godless times and bring that upon you which is only able to make you happy even that which will make your hearts stable and unblameable in Joyfulness which is the hearty Prayer of him that is Your very Loving Vicar and continual Suppliant to the Throne of Grace for you all JOHN STRAIGHT To all READERS whatsoever THe Merchant that hath once put to Sea though he meet with some miscasualties in his Voyage is yet commonly apt to make another Adventure It hath been my hap by the perswasion of some prevalent Friends to make two adventures already before this My Ship is once again launched and let loose to the swelling waves of malicious Censure The boysterous blasts of such vain winds dismay me not nor do the multitude of pilfering Pyrates who by their prating endeavour to rob men of their good Names put a stop to my course 2 Cor. 11. 26. or cause me to strike sail The blessed Apostle tells me that he was thrice shipwrackt that he was in perils often and among the rest especially amongst false Brethren How can I then look to be free from such perils No no so long as there are so many of but little Judgment and less Honesty I neither can nor do expect to escape their stripes But as for such I shall take up the same Apostles resolution and say 1 Cor. 4. 3. with him that I pass very little to be judged of them There are too many so proud and self-conceited that they think nothing well done but what they do themselves such Readers commonly usurp the office of rash Judges and so instead of Lectores they become Lictores To such I shall apply my blessed Saviours words If I have spoken evil bear witness of the evil if well why then do you smite me with your John 18. 23 1 Cor. 4. 3. detracting Tongues If my God approve me I pass not for mans censure As for that Thredbare dry derision of being a Fool in Print I can as chearfully bear it as David somtime did the Taunts of Michol 2 Sam. 6. 20 21 22. and be as well pleased to be esteem'd a Fool for the communication of good things as S. Paul was contented to be accounted a Fool for Christs sake I shall now dismiss the captious and cavilling Reader with 1 Cor. 4. 10. Martial's Distich Cum tua non edas carpis mea Carmina Leli Carpere vel noli nostra vel ede tua Martial And so turning to the truly Religious and well affected Readers who read to profit and not to pick Holes To you dear Christians I willingly present this Sermon with Jacobs Blessing and Prayer for his Sons God Almighty send thee mercy in the sight of the man c. You have here good Friends Gen. 43. 14. a Rule of Rejoycing a Direction for your Mirth accept it from me apply it to your selves do as Elisha did to the Child he raised from death to life he stretch'd himself over the Child he put his mouth 2 Kin. 4. 33 34. on the Childs mouth his eies on his eies his hands on his hands and therewithal he joyned prayers and the Child revived so do you also compare your selves with this pattern measure out your joy with this Rule where you find a conformity give thanks to God for it and where not pray to God to quicken you that you may grow in an holy similitude and conformity to this Rule And if these little fruits of my Ministry may serve any way to guide you in your journey towards Heaven it shall be no small comfort to me that I have not run nor laboured in vain Gal. 2. 2. And seeing all good things come from above I therefore commend you to the Father of Lights who is able to make you rejoyce in him with joy unspeakable and glorious and rest 1 Pet. 1. 8. Yours to serve you in what I may JOHN STRAIGHT The Rule of REJOYCING OR A Direction for MIRTH. IN A SERMON Preached in the Parish-Church of Stoure-paine in the County of Dorset on the 18th of June 1671. Phil. 4. 4. Rejoyce in the Lord