A30241:1910
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…
CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St. John, or, Christs prayer before his passion explicated, and both practically and polemically improved by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for Thomas Underhill, 1656
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1. A Natural Joy, which is an implanted affection in a man, and of it self simply considered is not a sin.
1. A Naturall Joy, which is an implanted affection in a man, and of it self simply considered is not a sin.
2. There is a Sinful Joy, which runneth into two streams, either when the Object is wholly unlawful, when it's a forbidden Tree, and we may not eat of it; And thus to rejoice in our evil doings, to take delight in the ways of wickedness, this is a wicked joy, that will end in tormenting sorrow, and it argueth a wretched distemper of the soul, otherwise it would find sin to be terrible and bitter, but through the corrupted constitution of the heart, it comes about that they delight in sin, as distempered stomachs do in coals, ashes, or such dross. Again, there is a sinful joy, when the Object matter is lawful, but then we exceed in the measure, in the bounds or limits, we over-joy. The water runs over the bank, and then it gets soil, and it's as hard to rejoice in these things, and to sin not, as it is to be angry, and sin not.
2. There is a Sinnefull Joy, which runneth into two streams, either when the Object is wholly unlawfull, when it's a forbidden Tree, and we may not eat of it; And thus to rejoyce in our evil doings, to take delight in the wayes of wickednesse, this is a wicked joy, that will end in tormenting sorrow, and it argueth a wretched distemper of the soul, otherwise it would finde sinne to be terrible and bitter, but through the corrupted constitution of the heart, it comes about that they delight in sinne, as distempered stomacks do in coales, ashes, or such drosse. Again, there is a sinnefull joy, when the Object matter is lawfull, but then we exceed in the measure, in the bounds or limits, we over-joy. The water runnes over the bank, and then it gets soyl, and it's as hard to rejoyce in these things, and to sinne not, as it is to be angry, and sinne not.