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Then Secondly, If you observe it, the word in the Text is favourable: Says he [Count] it all joy; that is, esteem it so. He doth not say, you shall have all joy (at present); But though you have not, you may count it all joy, that is, you may reckon it [as matter of all joy,] as many Interpreters paraphrase the ⟨p. 124⟩words, and so Reason yourselves into joy in your Judgements, and so esteem it all joy, Appretiativè, as the School speaks: though the passion of joy be wanting.

Then Secondly, If you observe it, the word in the Text is favourable: Says he [Count] it all joy; that is, esteem it so. He doth not say, you shall have all joy (at present); But though you have not, you may count it all joy, that is, you may reckon it [as matter of all joy,] as many Interpreters par•phrase the ⟨p. 124⟩words, and so Reason yourselves into joy in your Judgements, and so esteem it all joy, Appretiativè, as the School speaks: though the passion of joy be wanting.

Thirdly, Jesus Christ himself, when he did endure the Cross, and whilst he hung upon it, and likewise afore, whilst within the Garden, he was not in a joyous frame of Spirit, at that present, as to the passion of joy; nay, his Soul was heavy unto death, that while: Yet it is said, Heb. 12. 1. THAT FOR THE JOY that was set before him he did endure the Cross, &c. And he therein is set forth as an example unto us, in the same verse, Let us run [WITH PATIENCE] the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus, &c. It is well, if you look to the joy set before you, as that which you certainly expect to come, although you want ⟨p. 125⟩the Passion of joy in that which you expect to come.