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

as the feast of him who sate under a naked sword, hanging over him by a slender thread; as Adams forbidden fruit seconded by a flaming sword, as Belshazzar's dainties with an hand-writing against the wall, In the midst of all such joy, the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness, ¹Prov. 14. 12. Like a flame of stubble, or a flash of gun-powder, Claro strepitu, largo fulgore, cito incremento: sed enim materia levi, caduco incendio, nullis reliquiis. A sudden and flaming blaze which endeth in smoke and stink. The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment, Job. 20. 5. Like the Roman Saturnalia, ²wherein the servants feasted for two or three days, and then returned to their low condition again.

as the feast of him who sate under a naked sword, hanging over him by a slender thread; as Adams forbidden fruit seconded by a flaming sword, as Belshazars dainties with an hand-writing against the wall, In the midst of all such joy, the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviniss, ¹Prov. 14. 12. Like a flame of stubble, or a flash of gun-powder, Claro strepitu, largo fulgore, cito incremento: sed enim materia levi, caduco incendio, nullis reliquiis. A sodain and flaming blaze which endeth in smoak and stink. The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment, Iob. 20. 5. Like the Roman Saturnalia, ²wherein the servants feasted for two or three daies, and then returned to their low condition again.

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