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the joy of the just with the signs of such. A discourse tending to…the ioy of the iust vvith the signes of such. A discourse tending to…
the joy of the just with the signs of such. A discourse tending to the comfort of the dejected and afflicted; and to the trial of sincerity. Being the enlargement of a sermon preached at Black-Friars London; on Psal. 95. 11. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.the ioy of the iust vvith the signes of such. A discourse tending to the comfort of the deiected and afflicted; and to the triall of sinceritie. Being the enlargement of a sermon preached at Black-Friers London; on Psal. 95. 11. By Thomas Gataker B. of D. and pastor of Rotherhith.
London: printed by John Haviland for Fulke Clifton, 1623London: printed by Iohn Hauiland for Fulke Clifton, 1623
THE JOY OF THE JUST: WITH THE SIGNS OF SUCH.THE IOY OF THE IVST: WITH THE SIGNES OF SVCH.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Any course of life may be cheerful and lightsome with it; none can ever be truly comfortable or delightful without it. Godliness ⟨p. 24⟩x& a good Conscience is as a sweet perfume, that can give a good sent even to rags; ungodliness and an evil conscience, as filthy matter, that issuing from an ulcerous body, is able to infect and make unsavoury the best apparel that can be, to him especially that weareth it. And thereforey Heap up and gather thee together Gold and Silver, saith an Heathen man, build thee stately Galleries, plant thee pleasant Orchards and Gardens; fill thee thy house with Servitors, and the whole City with debtors, till thy mind be settled and satisfied (z nor can any thing but God, and the assurance of his favour settle or satisfy it:) all will be but (I say not as another saith, ast;as curious pictures to a bleared eye, as exquisite music to an aching head, that doth not neither help nor hurt, but) as a cup of neat wine given one in a Fever, as honey ministered to one that hath his stomach pestered with choler, as delicate meats dressed for a dysenterious person, that can relish nothing can retain nothing, receiveth no strength from them, is but the worse for them, and put by them to more pain. None of all these will be able to minister any sound joy or comfort to thee, no more than they could do to“ him, that had more of them before thee, than thou canst hope ever to attain unto, until thou come to have part in him, who is the† Fountain of all joy, and ⟨p. 25⟩the* God of all comfort, without whom there is no true joy, no sound comfort to be had.