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A81211	Ioy out-joyed: or, Joy in overcoming evil spirits and evil men, overcome by better joy: set forth in a sermon at Martins in the fields, to the Right Honourable the Lords assembled in Parliament, upon the day of their solemn rejoycing and praising God, for reducing the city of Chester by the forces of the Parliament, under the command of Sr William Brereton, February 19. 1645. / By Joseph Caryl minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer London Bridge.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1646 (1646)	Wing C780; Thomason E323_3; ESTC R200591	20,183	35

where are thy Armies where are thy Trophies where are the Towns and Cities which thou hast overcome They are all past away We may say as much of all our victories and deliverances of beating the enemy in the field of beating him out of strong holds in a few yeers what will become of all these things and of the worldly issues of them Time will eat ou● the remembrance of this glory Solomon doth not so much question as chide Prov. 23. 5. wilt thou set thine heart upon that which is not Can a man be in danger of setting his heart upon that which hath not a being Creatures have so little being that they are said to have no being and so have all creature-comforts wilt thou set thine heart upon that which is not How long will the comfort of conquests and victories last that we should rejoyce onely or much in them Secondly if we confine our joyes to these we are in a double danger In a danger First of growing proud of and confident upon our victories nothing keeps the heart low but joy in the highest things Ioy in low things makes the heart sinfully high and joy in high things makes the heart graciously low That 's the reasō why the men of the world boast themselves in their riches honours c. the reason I say why they grow proud of these things is because they have nothing else to rejoyce in Secondly by joying much in the creature we are in danger to surfeit upon the creature or to grow wanton with it When the minde is steeped in our senses we can hardly get the taste off again We follow the world so much because it gives us so little we are uncessant in pursuing earthly contents because we still hope for more and are unsatisfied with what we have But when the heart once tastes of spirituall dainties it findes satisfaction and being satisfied desires to taste them still fulnes and hunger satisfaction and appetite being perpetually interchangeable The taste of heavenly things is so high and quick that all besides tastes flat and dreggish No man saith Christ desireth new wine having drunk the old for he saith the old is better Earthly comforts will not hold so fair a proportion to heavenly as new wine doth to old They differ not in degree onely but in kinde The creature hath alwaies an unsatisfyingnesse in it and at the last it will have a bitternes Prov. 25. 27. To eat much honey is not good if a man eat honey long or often it will not be honey to him so for men to search their own glory is not glory thus we translate it but the text is well rendred and closer to the Originall thus To multiply to eat honey or to eat much honey is not good but the last of glory is glory The Saints shall feed to eternity upon glory and that will be alwaies glory but honey the best of worldly comforts will be gall if you feed much upon them Therefore correct your appetites after the creature make your joy in worldly things an occasion and a step to spirituall doing so three effects will flow from such joy First such joys will make us very holy Joy in worldly things alone leaves us as worldly as it findes us but if we mix it with spirituall holines will mingle with our spirits The Lord promises to give his people beauty for ashes the oyl of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heavinesse Isa 61. 3. here is the Lords joy we have the effect of this in the next words That they may be called trees of righteousnes the planting of the Lord that he may be glorified If we rejoyce in the Lord we shall rejoyce to the glory of the Lord Trees of righteousnes have their fruit in holines It is a sad thing to see what fruit the joy of most brings forth intemperance drunkennesse sensuality security injustice fruits of unrighteousnes all Secondly Ioy thus temper'd makes us strong to serve the Lord joy in the Lord carryes us to the Lord Neh. 8. 10. The joy of the Lord is our strength Joy in the world weakens and flats our spirits joy in the Lord strengthens as well as purifies and makes us at once holy and active Thirdly Such joy makes us more then strong exceeding zealous for the Lord. After the people in Hezekiahs time had feasted seven dayes the story saith 2 Chron. 30. 23. The whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days and they kept other seven days with gladnesse Here were seven and seven days of feasting it seems they loved feasting well but the effect assures us they did more then eat drink and make merry at their feast Their joy and gladnes was not in corne and wine and good chear No it was joy in the Lord and in his goodnes for they presently act like those that had rejoyced in the Lord. Many in one dayes feast lose the memory of the Lord and of their own duty but these in fourteendayes feasting forgot neither The first verse of the next chapt is clear for it Now when all this was finished a feast of fourteen dayes continuance what did they then some might think them furnisht for any kinde of wickednes That they had eat and drunk out not only their graces but their wits that now they were fit only to throw the house out at the windowes as we say no they threw sin out at the windows so saith the story for when all this was finished all Israel that were present went out to the Cities of Judah and brake the images in pieces and cut down the groves and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin in Ephraim also and Manasseh untill they had utterly destroyed them all c. They made a perfect work of casting out whatsoever was displeasing unto God Had they only taken pleasure in creatures they had never done what was so pleasing unto God Every thing we rejoyce most in we are most zealous for We should rejoyce more in the God of our mercies then in the mercies of God and while we do so we shall also rejoyce more in our duties then in our mercies We are this day called to rejoyce in an outward mercy the reducing of a strong City In this victory spirits are made subject in overcōming evil men we overcome evil spirits I delight not to be a censurer at any time least of all at this yet we know what a strain what a generation of men these were If evil spirits have been made subject in any part of the Kingdom some were in this That place is dispossessed of many untoward spirits who possessed it long and cast much of it into the fire These are now cast out by sword and fire But chiefly by those better weapons of prayer and fasting Christ said of the Pharisees You are of your father the Devil Joh. 8. 44. And Polycarp in the Church

IOY OUT-JOYED OR Joy in overcoming evil spirits and evil men Overcome by better Joy SET FORTH IN A SERMON at Martins in the fields to the Right Honourable the Lords Assembled in Parliament upon the day of their Solemn Rejoycing and praising God for reducing the City of Chester by the Forces of the Parliament under the Command of St WILLIAM BR●RETON February 19. 1645. By Joseph Caryl Minister of the Gospel at Magnus neer London Bridge LONDON Printed by G. M. for John Rothwel at the Signe of the Sun and Fountain in Pauls Church-yard and Giles Calvert at the Signe of the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1646. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE The House of PEERS Assembled in Parliament My Lords THE world is too narrow for our passions we may soon over-joy or over-sorrow the best or the worst estate which earth affords or can inflict What an Atome then is it to our understandings The world is too little and too low-prized for the minde of the least of the poorest man who hath the understanding of a man what A nothing then is it to such as yours are Great and noble mindes And yet as inconsiderable as it is they who have only the world to rejoyce in shall not shortly have a world to rejoyce in The fashion of it passeth away daily and the matter of it is of no long continuance The beauty of it was stained in its infancy and the frame of it must be consumed when it is a few who knowes how few years elder This should call off our thoughts from eager earthly pursuits and pitch them upon a higher and more enduring substance This should provoke us to put the moon all changeable excellencies under our feet and make us restlesse till we are cloathed with the Sun an eternall excellency 'T was the designe of the ensuing Sermon to befriend souls with such a change of cloathing and to entice them into the joys of a name written in Heaven that they might not too much read or rejoyce in any no not their own on earth I know the victories and successes of a just warre endebt us not only to Thankfulnes but to Ioy. Such victories are the exactest pieces both of the wisdom and power of God God is called a man of warre but nothing shews him more a God then warre And among all warres a warre with spirits though but with the spirits of men shews most of God The great promise of restoring Ierusalem is thus prefac'd Thus saith the Lord which stretcheth out the Heavens and layeth the foundation of the earth and formeth the spirit of man within him Zech. 12. 1. All reforming about spiritualls begins at the forming of spirits Whether God forms spirits or breaks spirits which will not receive his form his work is admirable God hath begun a warre with and a work upon spirits in our dayes Some spirits are beautifully formed others are justly broken T' is a duty to rejoyce in both chiefly in the former We must rejoyce for the Angels in heaven do when we hear the spirits of other men are formed but the best cause of joy is when we finde our own are How much soever the publike is reformed without or how many soever are formed within yet if any heart lie ruin'd or life unshap't he may in the midst of all these joys and triumphs for he shall lie down in sorrow That your Lordships may have many rejoicing daies and a rejoycing eternity That your Names may be written in the fairest and greatest letter which Honour can make on earth and that they may be written in the fair-est and greatest letter which Glory Shall make in Heaven is the prayer of Your Honours humbly devoted Joseph Caryl A SERMON PREACHED to the Right Honourable the House of PEERS assembled in Parliament Upon the Day of their solemne Thanksgiving for the reducing of the City of CHESTER LUKE 10. 20. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you but rather rejoice because your names are written in Heaven THE King of Saints and Captain Generall of our salvation Iesus Christ having called commission'd and sent out twelve Apostles as great Commanders to subdue his native Kingdom of Israel to himself at the sixth Chapter of this Gospel He at the first verse of this prepareth and sendeth forth a band of seventy Auxiliaries to prosecute and advance the same designe After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also and sent them two and two before his face into every City and place whither he himse●f would come And to shew that the weapons of their warfare were not carnall but mighty through God these seventy returning victors report the successe of their expedition and shew Christ the Trophies of their conquest at the 17 verse And the seventy returned again with joy saying Lord even the devils are subject unto us through thy Name Yea saith Christ I know it to be so this is not a vain boast of valour like theirs who will vaunt they have kill'd the Devil and run strange adventures when they scarce dare look an enemy in the face I my self can bear you witnesse that you have faithfully and effectually acted your commission the issues of your service have been glorious in mine eye And he said unto them I beheld Satan like lightning fall from Heaven vers 18. The powers of darknesse cannot stand before the Gospel of light The Devil the prince of the ayr is no match for Christ no nor for the meanest of the servants of Christ who go forth armed with his name and power And because Christ found that these servants of his had managed their former commission so well therefore he is so far from calling it in that he inlargeth it at the 19 verse Behold I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you Go forth again in this armour of power with which I have girt you and I warrant you sword-free and shot-free nothing either on earth or in hell shall by any means strength or stratagem hurt you all the world will be against you but I am with you take courage nothing shall hurt you therefore on again in this warfare you shall as my self go forth conquering and to conquer Now who was able to bear such a burden of honour from these past and promised victories with moderation How many by hearing a report of their own conquests over other men have been overcome with their own pride It is an easier matter to gain successes then to bear them well Christ who knows the measure of every spirit seems to suggest that even the good spirits of his Disciples began to over-act upon these victories over evil spirits Hence he gives them an allay by counsel and caution not to raise their joy too high upon this point And more he diverts their joy which he saw ready to overslow the banks