A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

1 What this Joy is. 2 How it is said to be full. 3 Some Corollaries from thence. For the first, What this Joy is.

1 What this Joy is. 2 How it is said to be full. 3 Some Corolaries from thence. For the first, What this Joy is.

Joy in the Holy Ghost, is a spiritual affection arising from peace of conscience, whereby we rejoice in our union with Christ, with joy unspeakable and glorious. Or joy in the Holy Ghost is a spiritual affection, whereby the heart is unspeakably and gloriously enlarged and ravished upon the solid apprehension of union and communion with Christ.

Joy in the Holy Ghost, is a spiritual affection arising from peace of conscience, whereby we rejoyce in our union with Christ, with joy unspeakable and glorious. Or joy in the Holy Ghost is a spiritual affection, whereby the heart is unspeakably and gloriously enlarged and ravished upon the solid apprehension of union and communion with Christ.

1 It is a spiritual joy] not only because the objects of it are spiritual good things, union with Christ, and the benefits which we reap from it. (Adoption, Righteousness, Holiness, protection of Angels, dominion over the Creatures, right to a glorious inheritance) but also and that more principally, because it is wrought in us by the holy Spirit, hence it is called Joy in the Holy Ghost, Rom. 14.17. hence he is called the Comforter John 15. penult. when God and Christ are said to dwell in the hearts of faithful men, nothing else is meant; but the Holy Ghost dwelling in them, and working this joy (