Joy in the Lord opened in a sermon preached at Pauls, May 6

6. It must be various, ¹like the holy anointing oil, compounded of many principal spices, Exod. 30 23-25. in rich hangings in choice gardens, in great feasts, in select libraries, variety is that which greatly delighteth the spectators: were a table filled with one and the same dish, or a study with the same book, or a garden with the same flower, it would wholly take away from the delight of it. And this variety is then much more delightful, when each particular good doth answer some particular defect, or desire in him that enjoyeth it; when it is as a rich Storehouse, as the Shop of the Apothecary, or as a Physic Garden, wherein a man may in any distemper fix on some thing proper to help him.

6. It must be various, ¹like the holy anoynting oyle, compounded of many principal spices, Exod. 30 23-25. in rich hangings in choice gardens, in great feasts, in select libraries, variety is that which greatly delighteth the spectators: were a table filled with one and the same dish, or a study with the same book, or a garden with the same flowre, it would wholly take away from the delight of it. And this variety is then much more delightful, when each particular good doth answer some particular defect, or desire in him that enjoyeth it; when it is as a rich Storehouse, as the Shop of the Apothecary, or as a Physick Garden, wherein a man may in any distemper fix on some thing proper to help him.

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