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

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Let us break their bonds asunder and cast away their cords from us But we feare not that you will take any hurt by this for we trust we have compounded you a sufficient antidote against such poyson in what hath been already said if not we have choice of many ingredients more which we doubt not will make the physick strong enough 4ly Fourth ground Accepcion of actions A fourth cause that a godly man hath to be merry may be The acceptation of his actions whereof he hath good assurance by the testimony of God's Spirit For we see amongst our selves 't is a very great cheering to a man both in and for the doing of a thing if the person for whom he does it accept's of it as the contrary must needs be a great discouragemet Goe thy way eat thy bread with joy and drink thy wine with a merry heart for God now accepteth thy work Eccles 9.7 I said By the testimony of God's Spirit for that must 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Rom 8.16 witnesse together with his spirit or else the witnesse of his own spirit or conscience is nothing worth And therefore Paul when he had commended the truth of what he was to say to the Romanes by the testimony of his conscience as if he had said nothing if he had said no more presently added 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Holy Ghost Rom 9.1 I I say the truth in Christ I lye not my conscience also bearing me witnes in the Holy Ghost When I have spent howers in prayer or hearing or meditation or fasting nay when I have well spent my whole life let me but have Enoch's testimony * Heb 11.5 Fift ground Experience of God's love that I have pleased God how will my heart rejoyce 5ly A fift ground may be Experiences of God's love which a good Christian hath a great many more then he takes notice of and that I must needs tell him is his usuall fault Is it not of efficacy think you to make a man merry to have in his mind when he is alone and to be able to talke of when he is in company such and such a mercy recieved at such and such a time How such a time God hedged up his way into sinne how at such a time he hedged up his way into misery How signally and plainly God hath carried him along in all his wayes by an overruling hand of providence so that all things even those which in his best advised judgment he thought the worst were made to worke for the best How at such a time God opened his eare for instructiō * Job 36.10 How at such a time he gave him a most gracious meeting with warming ēbracings of love at such a time with strong sealings of the righteousnesse of faith at another time with most lively quicknings of hope If these consolations be small I know not what consolation is 6ly The sixth ground The Scriptures The sixth thing that will afford the godly man matter of joy is that wherein the wicked man can take no comfort because it layes open his sin to him together with the punishment of it which he hath no assurance to avoid for want of faith and repentance The written word of God which we call the Scriptures even both the Testaments left with us for this end that we as the Apostle * Rom 15.4 saith through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope How many hundred most abundantly comfortable promises are there in those Scriptures not only of things able to make the godly joyfull for such might be and they might be never the better for they might take no joy in them but some of them even of joy it selfe The Spirit of the Lord is upon me c. To appoint unto them that mourne in Zion to give unto them beauty for ashes the oyle of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the Spirit of heavinesse c. Isa 61.1.2 3. See also Isa 51.11 ch 60.20 The whole Gospell what is it else but joyfull newes Not barely newes but joyfull newes glad tidings of great joy as saith the Angell Luk. 2.10 Now when godly men meet with such a treasure of rich treasures as the Gospell is which they never laboured nor paid for and such a large crop of mercies and benefits as are contained in the Gospell which they never sowed nor plowed for which Christ alone hath purchased for them to their hands of his own free love when instead of walking in darknesse as they have done all their life before they shall see a great light and though their lot was cast in the land of the shadow of death that even then the light shall shine upon them how can they chuse but joy according to nay beyond the joy in harvest and as men rejoyce that devide the spoyle * In that verse whereas we read 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not in creased the joy it is read also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they are w rds usually changed and encreased his joy and so the Sept read Isa 9.3 He that keeps continuall feasting upon such good cheare as the promises unlesse he be very stupid and absurd as it is an absurd thing to be sad at a feast his garments must needs be alwaies white his head can never lack oyntment Now in the Gospel God hath set before us the table was spread at Jerusalem Isa 25.5 though to the Jewes it became a snare Psal 69.22 a feast of fat things a feast of wines on the lees well refined Isa 25.6 Nay not only the promises benefits to come when Christ shall come nor the Gospel or the newes of their comming either before or after their coming but even all the commandements and lawes of God and Christ contained in the whole book of the Scriptures as grievous as they are to a wicked man are to a godly man matter of infinite pleasure and delight God's lawes are so just and righteous that the vertuous heart of a just and righteour man cannot but delight in them as all other things doe in that which is most suitable to them How many times does David tell you thus much The statutes of the Lord are right rejoycing the heart Psal 19.8 And Ps 119.111 They are the rejoycing of my heart see at your leasure the 14.16 20 27 50 54 70 92 143 verses of the same psalme Indeed God's Lawes are such proper and wholsome food for a man that if the Stomack be clean and the will be not disordered with lusts and ill humours they cannnot chuse but relish them The very nature and constitution of the soule neither corrupted nor distempered with sinne and lusts will agree with it and embrace it with as much love and complacency as a healthy stomach doth wholsome food And indeed it is the maine reason why God's law is so pleasing and delightsome to a regenerated person viz