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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

To reprove the sin and folly of all those who seek for joy out of the broken Cisterns of the Creatures which can hold none and leave that living fountain out of which it naturally floweth Some seek it in secular wealth and greatness others in sensual pleasures feasting gaming luxury excess some in Titles of Honor others in variety of knowledge some in stately Structures magnificent retinue goodly provisions others in low sordid and bruitish lusts Unto all whom we may say as the Angel unto the women Luke 24. 5. Why seek ye the living amongst the dead or as Samuel did unto Saul Set not thy mind upon the Asses there are nobler things to fix thy desires upon Solomon had more variety this way and more wisdom to improve it then any now have and he made it his business critically and curiously to examin all the creatures and to find out all the good which was under the Sun And the product and result of all his enquiries amounted at last to a total made up all of Cyphers of meer wind and emptiness Vanity of vanities vanity of vanities all is vanity So he begins his book and to shew that he was not mistaken so he concludes it Eccles. 1. 12. Every particular vanity alone and all in a mass and collection vanity together enough to vex the soul enough to weary it but never enough to fill it or to suffice it Many of them sinfull delights poisoned cordialls killing cursing damning joies dropping as an honey-comb smooth as oyle but going down to death and taking hold of hel Prov. 5. 35. All of them empty delights in their matter and expectation earthly in their acqnisition painful in their fruition nauseous and cloying in their duration dying and perishing in their operation hardning effeminating levening puffing up estranging the heart from God in their consequences seconded with anxiety solicitude fear sorrow despair disappointment in their measure shorter then that a man can stretch himself on narrower then that a man can wrap himself in every way defective and d●sproportionable to the vast and spatious capacity of the soul as unable to fill that as the light of a candle to give day to the world What ever delights men take pleasure in leaving Christ out are but as the wine of a condemned man as the feast of him who sate under a naked sword hanging over him by a slender thread as Adams forbidden fruit seconded by a flaming sword as Belshazars dainties with an hand-writing against the wall In the midst of all such joy the heart is sorrowful and the end of that mirth is heaviniss Prov. 14. 12. Like a flame of stubble or a flash of gun-powder Claro strepitu largo fulgore cito incremento sed enim materia levi caduco incendio nullis reliquiis A sodain and flaming blaze which endeth in smoak and stink The triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment Iob. 20. 5. Like the Roman Saturnalia wherein the servants feasted for two or three daies and then returned to their low condition again 2. This discovereth the great sin and folly of those who take offence at Christ and when others entertain him with Hosanna and acclamations are displeased at him as the Scribes Mat. 21. 15. and with the yong man in the Gospel go away sorrowful from him Mark 10. 22. Our Saviour pronounceth them blessed who are not offended with him Mat. 11. 6. thereby intimating the misery of those who stumbling at him as a rock of offence are thereupon disobedient unto his word Christ doth not give any just cause of offence unto any but there are many things belonging unto Christ which the proud and corrupt hearts of men do turn into matter of grief and offence unto themselves 1. Some are offended at his Person in whom the Godhead and Manhood are united as the Jews John 1. ● 33. the Samosatenians Photinians and Neophotinians since who though the Lord in his Word call him the Miphty God Isa. 9. 6. tell us that the Word was God John 1. 1. God blessed for ever Rom 9. 5. Equal with God Phil. 2. 6. The true God 1 John 5. 20. The Great God Tit. 2. 13. a God whose Throne is for ever and ever Heb. 1. 8. The Lord who in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth v. 10. Iehovah our righteousness Jer. 23. 6. yet will not endure to have him any more then a meer man without any personality or real subsistence till he was born into the world of the Virgin Mary It would be tedious to trouble you with the manifold offence which ancient and modern Hereticks have taken at the Person Nature and Hypostatical union in Christ The a Sabellians acknowledging three names of Father Son and Holy Ghost but onely one Hpostasis The b Arians affirming him to have been of like essence with the Father but not co-essential nor coeternal but a meer creature The c Manichees denying the truth of his humane nature The d Apollinarians the integrity of it The e Valentines and Mareionites the original of it from the blessed Virgin The Nestorians affirming a plurality of persons as well as of natures The f Euthychians a confusion of natures in one person So mightily hath Satan bestirred himself by many and quite contrary instruments to plunder the Church if it had been possible of the Lord their Righteousness 2. Others are offended at his Cross both Iews and Greeks 1 Cor. 1. 23. Those pitching in their expectations upon a glorious Prince who should free them from the Roman yoke could not endure to be so disappointed as in the stead thereof to have a crucified man one in the form of a servant to be their Messiah and therefore whosoever rule over them he shall not Luke 19. 4. These judging it a foolish thing to expect life from a dead man glory and blessedness from one who did not keep himself from shame and curse hearing doctrines wholly dissonant and inconsistent with the principles they had been prepossessed withal did thereupon refuse to submit to Christ who notwithstanding to them which are called was the power of God and the wisdom of God had more power then that which the Jews require more wisdom then that which the Greeks sought after The Cross of Christ likewise to be taken up by his Disciples and followers is matter of offence unto many others called the offence of the Cross Gal. 5. 11. When they hear that they must suffer with him if they will reign with him that through many tribulations they must enter into the Kingdom of God that affliction is an appendix to the Gospel and find the truth of it by experience persecution arising because of the word then presently they are offended Matth. 13. 21. 3. Others are offended at the Free-grace of Christ cannot endure to be shut out from all share and causality towards their