Certain sermons, first preached, and after published at several times, by M. Thomas Gataker…Certaine sermons, first preached, and after published at severall times, by M. Thomas Gataker…

AN ^aunseasonable discourse, saith^b Sirach's Son, is as music in mourning. And to some, peradventure, it will seem somewhat unseasonable to treat of^c Joy in times of Grief; in such a time especially, when so much cause of sorrow, that it may well seem a sin not to be in some sort^* sick of it. And yet it will not (I hope) prove so unseasonable, if all be well weighed, to treat even in such a time of such Joy, as Gods Spirit here speaketh of. For^d when is Physic more seasonable than in time of sickness? Or when had Gods Children more need of^e cheering up, than when they are pressed down with the heaviest crosses and calamities? The very main Scope and drift of the Psalmist, who ever he was, in this Psalm.

AN ^aunseasonable discourse, saith^b Siracks Sonne, is as musicke in mourning. And to some, peradventure, it will seeme somewhat unseasonable to treat of^c Ioy in times of Griefe; in such a time especially, when so much cause of sorrow, that it may well seeme a sinne not to be in some sort^* sicke of it. And yet it will not (I hope) prove so unseasonable, if all be well weighed, to treat even in such a time of such Ioy, as Gods Spirit here speaketh of. For^d when is Physicke more seasonable than in time of sicknesse? Or when had Gods Children more need of