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A07454	A sermon preached before the Generall Assembly at Glascoe in the kingdome of Scotland, the tenth day of Iune, 1610. By George Meriton Doctor of Diuinitie, and one of his Maiesties chaplaines	Meriton, George, d. 1624.	1611 (1611)	STC 17840; ESTC S112673	19,738	40

thirteenth Chapter of his Enchiridion Malum est quod bonum bonum quod malum That in this world we haue good mingled with our euill and euill with our good We see in part we know in part and our Conscience is imperfect yet good and pure being neither iustly accused for things which are past nor vniustly delighted with things which are present Bona ordinatione affectionis pura exclusione criminis bona sine duplicitate intentionis pura sine remorsione vermu as a Schooleman speaketh This kinde of Conscience among the ancient Fathers hath honorable titles giuen vnto it they call it a field of blessednesse a garden of delight the ioy of Angels the house of the holy Ghost and the Paradise of the Soule The ioy that floweth from it is saith S. Bernard a l●titia that is a latitia a surpassing ioy which maketh a mans heart farre wider then his mouth Chilon Sophocles and Dionysius died vpon a sodaine saith Pli●ie with a greatnesse of ioy yet was their ioy but a wretched sorrow in cōparison of the good and pure ioy of an honest conscience This is no light nor loude laughter res seuera est verum gaudium maximum aliquando cum parum videtur blandum True ioy is sober and seasoned with grauity and then many times at the highest when he that feeleth it seemeth to be at the lowest Wine may make a man haue a merry heart yet in the middest of mirth there may be sadnes●e in the conscience Sinne may make a man haue a heauy heart yet in the middest of heauinesse there may be ioy in the conscience Paenitens semper dolet there is the house of Mourning de dolore semper gaudet saith S. Augustine here is the house of reioycing So as a good conscience euen in mourning reioyceth all the sorrowes in the world cannot make it wholly sadde yea such is the force of it as it turneth sorrow and bitternesse into ioy Yee shall sorrow saith our Sauiour to his disciples John 16. 20. but your sorrow shall be turned into ioy Homers Nepenthes was said to haue a speciall force in it to take griefe away but it had not the power to turne griefe into ioy Whereas so many Crosses were Acts 5. 41. so many consolations vnto Christs Apostles They triumphed in their afflictions for that they were thought worthy to suffer them for their Masters sake This made poore Iob as Augustine speaketh of him more happy in stercore on the top of a dunghill then Adam was in nemore in the middest of Paradise because as himselfe saith his Job 27. 6. heart did not reproue him all his dayes And wheras the pleasure of the world turned Lots wife into a pillar of Salt the delight of conscience turneth the pillar of Salt into Lots wife so that Lot for a salt pillar shall haue a sweet wife for his greatest griefe an exceeding comfort Salomon could not well tell what better to compare this conscience Prouerb 15. vnto then to a feast A good Conscience saith he is a continuall feast what is more pleasant and more abounding in mirth then a solemne feast how can we celebrate the remembrance of any thing better then by a feast Pharao and Herod vppon their birth dayes could make but a feast Ahasuerus shewed all his royaltie by feasting his Princes and Nobles of his Prouinces So did Caesar after his triumphs who is said by Plutarch to haue feasted the Romans at two and twenty thousand tables And how doth the Church of Christ solemnize her Memorials of the infinite mercies of God bestowed vpon her as of the Birth Resurrection Ascension c. of Iesus Christ but by her solemne feasts A good Conscience is a good feast The guests are the Trinity Father Sonne Apoc. 3. and holy Ghost The Ministers are the Angels the Hebr. 1. cheare meate and wine the word and Sacraments Rom. 14. Prouerb 9. The Musique gaudium Spiritus sancti the ioy and peace of the holy Ghost O fes●us dies hominis blessed festiuall day But what talke I of a day it is continuall Adonaiah made a feast 1. King 's 1. but when Salomon was proclaimed King he was daunted vpon that sodaine newes Belshazar feasted Dan. 5. and caroused Iustily but when he saw the Palme of the hand that wrot vpon the wall M●ne Mene ●ek●l Vph●●rsin his ioynts were loofened and his knees smot together The feast of Ahasuerus Hester 1. 4. lasted but a hundred and fourescore dayes Sed vis semper epulari vis ●unquam tristis esse or as Seneca saith wil● thou turne the whole yeare into December keepe a continuall feast and euer bee merry Walke then worthy of thy vocation whervnto thou art called keepe a good conscience towards God and vnblameable before men For a good conscience is a continuall feast The meate Iohn 6. 33. perisheth not and the bread is the bread of life Et tanto amplius esuritur quanto amplius comeditur the more we ea●e the more we may The ioy is Iohn 16. 22. euerlasting and neuer shal any depriue vs thereof● Et huic comparata omnis iucunditas maeror est omnis suanitas dolor omne dulce amarum saith S. Bernard It is a ioy alone beyond all comparison The Prophet Esay resembleth it to the ioy of haruest and to Esay 9. 3. the reioycing of men that diuide the spoile Indeede a husbandman hauing after much toile and trauaile long liued in expectation seeing a goodly crop white vnto the haruest cuts downe his corne bindeth it vp in sheaues and bringeth it home with signes and songs and shoutes of ioy When the Aegyptians were ouer throwen in the red sea then sang Moses and the children of Israel Exod. 15. Miriam also tooke a Timbrell in her hand and all the women came out after her with Timbrels and daunces there was a generall ioy for a generall deliuerance and yet for all that no spoile diuided but when a bloudy battaile is sought the victory obtained the citty entred the houses rifled the riches possessed the enimy vanquished O then my soule thou hast marched valiantly the heart is filled with gladnesse and the mouth with laughter and the earth doth ring with the sound of warlike melodie These bee some shadowes of the ioyes of a good conscience but the substance is Psal 33. nothing neare expressed Dauid setteth downe three degrees of this Spirituall ioy The first is gaudete reioyce the second exultate skip and leape for ioy the third is iubilate a word that commeth of Iobel which signifieth the confused noise of Cornets or Rammes hornes made in the yeare of Iubilee And this is such a kinde of ioy saith Gregory quod nec supprimatur nec exprimatur which can be neither suppressed nor expressed or if it may be expressed voce tantum exprimatur sed verbis non explicetur It is a rauishing ioy which may breake forth out