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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

blessed hope secured by the witness of the spirit who is the seal and earnest of our eternal inheritance filleth the hearts of believers with joy unspeakable and full of glory while they look not on the things that are seen but on the things that are not seen 9. In the fellowship of his sufferings which though to sense they be matter of sorrow yet unto faith are they matter of joy When Gods servants consider that unto these sufferings they were appointed 1 Thes. 3. 3. That Christ owns them as his Col. 1. 4. That they work for them a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory 2 Cor. 4. 17. That thereby the spirit of glory resteth on them and that God himself is glorified in them 1 Pet. 4. 14. In these respects they not only rejoice but triumph as more then conquerors in all their afflictions Acts 5. 41 Rom. 8. 37. Iam. 1. 2. Thus are Believers to rejoice in Christ And that 1. Greatly again and again Other delights may please the senses tickle the fancy gratifie the reason but there is no joy that can fill all the heart but the joy of the Lord Zeph. 3. 14. 2. Alway Rejoice ever more 1 Thes. 5. 16. all other joies have their periods and vacations they flow and ebb they blossom and wither In a fit of sickness in a pang of conscience under a sentence of death they are all as the white of an egg without any savor But no condition is imaginable wherein a conscionable believer hath not a foundation of joy in Christ This Tree of life hath fruit on it for every month Rev. 21. 2. The comforter he sends abides with us for ever Iohn 14. 16. The joy he gives none can take away Iohn 16. 22. Though Gods people have many causes of sorrow in themselves strong corruptions hard hearts little strength weak graces many temptations yet in Christ they have still matter of rejoicing in the constancy of his love in the abundance of his pardoning mercy in the fulness of his spirit in the sufficiency of his grace in the fidelity of his promise in the validity of his purchase in the vigilancy of his eye in the readines of his help in the perpetuity of his intercession we disparage so good a Lord discredit his service disquiet our selves discourage others grieve his spirit expose his waies to prejudice reproach weaken our hands in his service and our hearts in his love when we pine and languish under groundless perplexity and waste that time which should be spent in his work about our jealousies of his favor 3. With trembling and holy reverence Res severa est verum gaudium without levity without wantonness without presumption without arrogance Psal. 2. 11. So rejoice in him as withall to fear to offend him to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling even for this very reason because he is so gracious as to give us both to will and to do of his own good pleasure Phil. 2. 12 13. 4. With improvement of this joy 1. Unto thankfulness for Christ and any thing of Christ in our selves having tasted that the Lord is gracious let us ever be speaking good of his name though our measures are not so great as some other mens yet we may not esteem any thing of salvation small or little it will grow unto perfection 2. Unto more chearful service the more we triumph in his victory the more we shall abound in his work 1 Cor. 15. 57 58. The joy of the Lord is our strength Nehem. 8. 10. Return to thy rest O my soul there is Davids joy I will walk before the Lord there is the work of that joy Psal. 116. 8 9. None are more fruitfull in his service then they who are most joifull in his favor 3. Unto consolation against any other evils though we have not the wealth health gifts imployments honors that others have yet if Christ have given us himself his bloud to redeem us his spirit to quicken us his grace to renew us his peace to comfort us Should such consolations seem small unto us Iob 15. 11. What wants are there which the joy of the Lord doth not compensate What sufferings are there which the joy of the Lord doth not swallow up Would we exchange Christ if we might have all the world without him And shall we be displeased if we have not all the world with him Nay have we not in him all other things more eminently sweetly purely richly to enjoy then in all the creatures besides Fidelibus totus mundus divitiarum est Doth thy journey to heaven displease thee because the way haply is deep and stony admit it were a Carpit-way like Salisbury Plain haply there thou wouldst loiter more haply there thou wouldst be more assaulted whereas in a deeper way thou art more careful of thy self and more secure against thine enemies Lastly unto a zealous provocation of others to come in and be partakers of the same joy In times of festivity men use to call their neighbours under their Vines and Fig-trees Zach. 3. 10. The Lord Jesus is the feast of his servants 1 Cor. 5. 7 8. unto him therefore we should invite one another as Andrew did Simon and Philip Nathaniel Iohn 1. 41 45. Joy is of all affections the most communicative it leaps out into the eyes the feet the tongue staies not in one privat bosom but as it is able sheds it self abroad into the bosoms of many others It was not enough for David to express his own joy by dancing before the Ark but he deals amongst all the people cakes of bread pieces of flesh flagons of wine that the whole multitude of Israel might rejoice in the Ark of God as well as he 2 Sam. 6. 14. 19. I shall shut up all with removing two obstacles which seem to stand in the way of this joy 1. If I must alway rejoice how then or when shall I sorrow for sin I answer These two doe sweetly consist As the Passeover was a Feast yet eaten with bitter hearbs so Christ our Passeover may be feasted upon with a bitter sense of our own sins As in the Spring many a sweet flowre falls and yet the Sun shines all the while So there may be sweet flowres of Godly sorrow and the Sun of righteousness still shine on the soul None do more mourn for offending Christ then those who do most rejoice in the fruition of him 2. But what shall we say of wounded and afflicted consciences lying under the buffets of Satan under divine desertions sinking under temptation and wrestling with the sense and fear of wrath can these rejoice at all much less always It is true when God hides his face none can behold him in such a shipwrack neither Sun nor Stars wil appear But yet 1. There is the matter and foundation of true joy the seed of comfort Light is sown for the righteous and joy for the upright in