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The oyle of gladnesse: or, Musicke at the house of mourning Deliuered in III severall sermons by Rob: Allvvyn, Master of Artes and rector of Stedham cum Heysbot, in the county of Suffex. 1631. And now vpon intreaty published.
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Allwyn, Robert.
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beene with child sayth the Prophet Esay such is the griefe Esay 26.18 the anguish of the soule as the travell as the labour of a woman Will you see the Sonne of our sorowes But in respect of imputation it is nothing Parturivimus ventum Wee have as it were brought forth winde we have not wrought any deliverance upon earth Yet heare our consolation heare that which will make our wildernesse like Eden Esa 51.3 and our desert like the garden of the Lord. There is one that hath wrought it for us Vir dolorum that is his description in the Prophet Esa 53.3 Hee is a man of sorowes and acquainted with griefe farre beyond that of affliction or Repentance Behold and see if there bee any sorrow like vnto my sorow Lam. 1.12 which is done vnto me All that we suffer all that wee deplore it is but a drop to the Sea in respect of the Passion of our Saviour The reason Aug. de temp Serm. 117. Suscepit tristitiam nostram vt largiretur laetitiam suā saith St. Augustine Surely hee hath borne our griefe hee hath taken our sorowes upon him that he might communicate and impart his joy unto us Now if one should coëquall the other if our gladnes should be correspōdent to his griefe how pregnāt how unspeakable should be the joy of the Saints With him you know there is mercy and plentifull redemption Oh let our rejoycing be as full let our exultation be answerable unto it The ransommed of the Lord shall returne and come to Syon with Songs and everlasting joy upon their heads They shall obtaine joy and gladnesse Esa 35.10 and sorrow and sighing shall flee away It is the case of the contrite ones the estate of those that are reconciled unto him whose workes are righteousnesse and peace quietnesse and assurance for ever Esa 51 22 23. Behold I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the Cup of my fury thou shalt no more drinke it againe but I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee They are the wordes of him that hath sealed us to salvation That speakes peace unto the soules of his Saints Wherefore lift up the hands that hang downe and strengthen yee the feeble knees Faint not in the spirit of your mindes Love your owne soules and comfort your hearts Rejoyce in hope your names they are written in Heaven And Rejoyce in tribulation in the fiery tryall in temptation and assaults of Sathan as being assured that you are throughly fenced against them We have a strong citie Salvation hath GOD appointed for walls and bulwarkes Esay 26.1 Wee will therefore Rejoyce in our salvation Psal 20.5 and triumph in the name of our GOD. To whom with the Father and the Holy-Ghost three persons and one GOD bee ascribed all Power Praise Majesty Might and Dominion both this day and for evermore AMEN AMEN THE THIRD SERMON THe River of the Lord is full of water Psalm 65.11 Finally my brethren Reioyce in the LORD To write the same thinges to mee indeed is not grievous but to you it is safe Phil. 3.1 The Lord shall comfort Syon hee shall comfort all her wast places and make her wildernesse like Eden and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Ioy and gladnesse shall bee found therein Thankesgiving and the voyce of melodie Esa 51.3 Levium metallorum fructus in summo Est illa Opulentissima Sunt quorum in Alto lateT vena assiduè plenius responsura fodienti Seneca Epist PHIL. 4.4 Againe I say Reioyce IN that day the Lord called vnto weeping and to mourning Esa 22.12 13. to baldnesse and girding with Sackcloath and behold Ioy and gladnesse sayth the Prophet Esay There is a generation as yet that when iminent judgement calls upon Repentance for sorow and contrition they mocke at feare and are not afraid they sing a Requiem to their soules they solace themselves with the pleasures evill day farre from them that say Peace peace untill their destruction commeth that spend their dayes in mirth and in a moment they goe downe into hell To sing this Song of Syon to ingeminate joy unto these what were it else but to adde unto drunkennesse thirst What were it else but to sow pillowes under the armes of security Strange is the method of joy Psal 51.8 the bones must be broken before they can flourish They must first mourne and if so blessed are they Blessed are they that mourne Math. 5.4 for they shall bee comforted Who is hee that maketh mee glad 2 Cor. 2.2 sayth St. PAVL but he that was made sorie by mee His exhortation without doubt it was onely unto those whom hee had made for to meditate terrour onely to those whom hee had smitten with remorse of Conscience Esa 66.2 Vnto this man will I looke sayth the Lord even vnto him that is poore and of a contrite heart and that trembleth at my Word Esa 66.2 See the most gracious aspect the light of the countenance that is a thousand times more cleere than the Sunne it shineth full upon those that sit in darknesse that have the sentence of death in themselves I dwell sayth the Lord in the high and holy place Esay 57.15 and yet hee humbleth himselfe vnto those that lye among the pots that are smitten into the place of Dragons with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to receive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite ones Vnto this purpose hee speakes once yea twice but man perceiveth it not When the Sunne is at height in the middest of consolation loe darknesse and sorrow Esay 5.30 Esa 19.5 And the light as the Prophet speaketh is darkened in the heavens thereof So that once more a third time O if yet the soule of him that refuseth comfort would heare But the waters they fayle from the Sea and the Rivers are wasted and dryed up all that hath beene spoken it is too little to the afflicted Soule So a third time am I to presse you with the Exhortation of Ioy. Reioyce alwayes in the Lord and Againe I say Reioyce The Parts the last day were these FIrst an Ingemination of an Exhortation Againe Secondly the party exhorting expressed or at least implyed in the verbe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I say Thirdly the Point or affection exhorted Reioyce Of the former of these have I spoken plentifully already out of this place it was the subject of my whole discourse and yet so true is that of St. Hierom Hierom. Singula verba plena sunt sensibus Much more might be spoken of it howbeit I intend not to build a new but to worke on the line that I layd the last day in the later part of the Sermon Rod. Agric. lib. 3. Dial. cap. 3. Againe Contrariorū affectus discutimus contrarijs affectibus you remember they are the
delight had not his joy beene in the Law of the Lord had not his Statutes beene his Songs in the house of his pilgrimage he had utterly fainted in his owne phrase hee had perished in his trouble Heavinesse in the heart of man maketh it stoope Prov. 12.25 but a good word maketh it glad sayth that wise King So that from the lips of a friend so and much more if from the father of raine if from him that hath begotten the drops of dew Iob 38.24 and therefore in the multitude of the sorrowes that he had in his heart in his anxiety and distresse hee flies not to his Lute and Harpe the Pipe and the Psaltery make sweet musicke Eccles 40.21 but a pleasant tongue is beyond them both he flyes not I say vnto these but vnto that which is beyond the choyce in the booke of the Preacher of men-singers and women-singers beyond musicall Instruments and that of all sorts the word of the Lord. Psal 119. part 4. v. 4. My soule melteth away for very heavinesse O comfort thou mee according to thy word And againe in a branch of the same Psalme O thinke vpon thy seruant as concerning thy word Par. 7.1 2. v where in thou hast caused mee to put my trust The same is my comfort in my trouble for thy word hath quickeneed mee So there is a vivification there is a resurrection there is as it were a raysing from the dead in the faith of the truth in the affiance of all those promises that are Yea and Amen The words that hee spake they were spirit and life And therefore as Peter sayd sometimes Whither or to whom shall wee goe Ioh. 6.68 thou hast the wordes of Eternall life In the day of distresse in the evill houre when wee are destitute afflicted and tormented where should wee solace our selues where may wee finde any ease but in the word of mercy and truth but in the word of the Lord Sen. Epist 99 172 Infantium fletum infuso lacte compescimus sayth Seneca And our obseruation the same wee still the cry we take away the teares of our little ones with the bosome with the brest of the Mother So grace in this it imitates Nature in the anguish of the Soule in the bitternesse of Spirit to silence our sorrowes to quiet discontent wee have no other meanes but the sincere milke of the Word Mater Ecclesia Aug. Tract 3 in Epist Iohannis Sub Initio vbera eius duo testamenta divinarum Scripturarum sayth St. Augustine The Church is our Mother her breasts are the two Testaments of the Scriptures whence shee giveth her children sucke In effect wee have the same similitude in the Prophet Esay Esa 66.13 As one whom his Mother comforteth so will I comfort you Heare this yee that mourne in Syon Come hither all yee that are weary and heavie laden In the evill day in the heat of affliction in what estate soever you are Loe a hiding place from the winde Esay 32.2 a covert from a tempest a shadow of a rocke in a weary Land Wee haue Moses and the Prophets more wee haue Evangelists and the Apostles we haue a Mother that we may sucke and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolation Esay 66.11 as the Prophet speaketh Now for the nursing Fathers they are the Pastors of the Church they are the Embassadors of heauen they are the Preachers of the Gospell by whom the God of all consolation administers comfort and speakes peace vnto the wounded in spirit Zach. 4.12 They are as the olive branches in the Prophet Zacharie which our of the golden pipes empty the golden oyle out of themselues They are as the Clouds Eccles 11.3 Ecclesiastes 11. full of raine that water the earth They are as the Mountaines in Ioel that drop new wine Ioel 3.18 and as the hilles that flow with milke In a word Esa 61.1 the Comforter him selfe the Spirit of the Lord is upon them Esa 50.4 hee hath anoynted them that may know how to speake a word in his season vnto him that is weary Esay 61.2 to preach good tydings to the meeke Eccl. 17.24 to comfort those that faile in patience to repayre the breach to strengthen with the mouth and as that vpright just man speaketh Iob 16.5 with the moving of the lips to asswage greife To cause the widowes heart or that which is far more afflicted Iob 29 13. to cause the contrite and broken to sing to raise vp the soule to giue life Eccles 34.17 health and blessing All these thinges worketh one and the selfe same spirit by that which hee hath shed forth among us by the words that hee hath put into the mouth of his Sonnes of consolation of the helpers of your joy so are they stiled by Saint Paul 2. Cor. 1.24 although in your opinion not so but supercilious and austere the very death of your feasts and the interrupters of your mirth For this cause as if they were made to reprove your thoughts Wisd 2.14 15. as if they were grievous unto you to behold as if their lives were of another fashion when you would forget your sorrowes when you would bee excused of the upbraidings of your Conscience when you would shake off the terrours of the Soule you seeke the society of vaine men you joyne your selves as if Sathan could cast out Sathan unto those that can preach of Wine and strong drinke they shall be even the Prophets of this people unto those that laugh their sinnes out of countenance and deride the sorrowes and Repentance of the righteous But alas beloved what mirth but shall bee turned into sorrow what mirth but that which is the bread of mourners all that eate thereof shall bee poluted Hos 9.4 can this laughter of Fooles administer unto you Would you exile discontent Doe yee seeke after joy Ecclus 9.16 Let the Iust man as the Son of Syrach speaketh let the iust man eate and drinke with you 2 Cor. 12.14 Or at least for I will not sayth St. Paul bee burthensome vnto you doe you so with him Eate of his bread and drinke of the wine that he hath mingled Prov. 11.5 His lippes O how sweet is his breath they abound with consolation and joy and therefore how can you but affect his communication and society 2 Sam. 18.27 Hee is a good man as DAVID sayd of AHAMAAZ hee is a good man and commeth with good tydings He is a medicine of life as the Sonne of Syrach speaketh of a faithfull friend and they that feare the Lord shall finde him Eccles 6.16 Slight him as much as you may Iob â—9 25 hee is as a King in an Army saith IOB As one that comforteth the mourners hee strengthens the weake hands hee confirmes the feeble knees Esa 35.3 4. hee sayth to them that be of