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A04270 The ioy of the vpright man In a sermon preached at Grayes Inne: By I. B. Wherein is declared the hidden comfort, the sure reward, the present condition of the vpright-hearted. Barlow, John, b. 1580 or 81. 1619 (1619) STC 1439; ESTC S116383 22,522 44

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serue to trie if our ioy be sound and our mirth such as is of moment doth it spring from the vprightnes of thy heart and art thou righteous in all thy courses why then thou art the merry man indeed else not Wicked men may laugh but alas they haue little cause The bread of deceit may make some persons pleasant for the present but death will be in the pot their sweete morsels must be vomited vp againe and become as grauell in their mouthes Let such reioyce but woe to them for they shall one day waile and weepe their ●ghter shall be turned into mourning their wine to wormewood And who would not wonder but that their hearts are seared that they haue any figure or shew of mirth and gladnes at all But we will omit them and commiserate them seeing their ioy is not sound and sudden sorrow shall surely follow Vse 3 And if the vpright man be the only merry man here on earth among his enemies and singeth his Hebrew songs with delight in a strange land Then what joy shall he haue in heauen in the presence of the Lord and communion of all the blessed Saints and Angels Can the Apprentice reioyce in his bondage and not in his freedome Shall the captiue sing in his shackels what will he do when the prison doore is opened and hee at libertie If Dauid could dance before the Arke how will hee leape before the Lambe Shall Peter cry out It is good to be here being but in the transfiguration Oh! what will hee say when and where hee is not deceiued Is it possible for an Hebrew to sing and play in Babylon and not be rauished with ioy in the house of Bethel will strangers doe thus from home what then will they doe in the heauen of heauens And how should this carry the minds of the vpright to thinke of their latter end to desire the comming of the Lord and restauration of all things Truly this if it were felt in part tasted here below and seriously thought vpon it would fill the heart with ioy vnutterable glorious make our Pauls long to be loosed and Iohns to crie Come Lord Iesus come quickly The little experience that we haue what ioy is in an vpright heart here must make vs wonder at that which shall be in heauen hereafter A cluster of grapes brought from Canaan proued that there was a very good land wine pleasant and in abundance Vse 4 And this in the last place should be a strong load-stone and motiue to cause vs to cast off sinne and to be righteous and religious We all would faine be merry and haue glad hearts why this is the only way and there is not another let vs then take Dauids counsell and taste how good the Lord is drinke of this water though it be brackish on the top like the salt sea yet it will proue sweeter in the bottome Men are in this thing as the prouerb is worse feared than hurt Children cast away the new coate because at the first it pincheth them but after two or three daies wearing they would pine and pule if it should be tooke from them Sinners are like the sluggard when the winde bloweth in at the creuises of the walls windows the curtaines drawne about him and he wrapped in the warme rags of his bedding Oh how loth he is to peepe out leaue his pillow and to put on his cold apparell yet when hee hath leaped foorth of his bed and clothed himselfe with his old attire he would not for a piece of siluer be in his former place and patches he was cast into and folded in So an vnrighteous person hee findeth warmth in the old rags of sinne is vnwilling to put off the reliques of his father Adam yet if once hee had but done it and clothed himselfe with the righteous robes of Christ Iesus he would not for a world be in his former condition of clothing And name the worst hardest thing in religion yet it will bring ioy to the doer yea they that mourne in the very act shall haue or in the euent great comfort and the greater sorrow the more solace Example Peters sinne caused Peters weeping but his weeping did procure matter of mirth Zacheus in restoring had more comfort than in deceiuing But men will not trie and wash in this poole of Siloam Iordan is not regarded of the leprous Naamans and Syrians of our daies I haue obserued that when boyes goe to bathe they feele with a finger touch with a toe and if it be cold at the first they shrinke draw back put on their apparell and vow they will not wash till weather and water be warmer when as one of more experience and better resolution leapeth in and after he hath swom one or two bouts feeleth no part so cold as that which is cut of the riuer So fearefull and irresolute persons come to this poole of Repentance but either they thinke its hard cold and painfull or that the time to come will be better and fitter and so the sunne of their life sets they neither wash at all nor find out this hidden cōfort But let me entreate thee to make triall of this matter mourne for thy sinne restore the wrongs done by deceit get faith in Christ labour for an honest heart and then if thou finde not the doctrine true cast off righteousnes goe to thy old course count me a false prophet and curse me when thou diest FINIS Soli sapienti Deo gloria Rom. 8. 1. Psal 32. 2. Gen. 1. 3. Heb. 1. 6. Colos 3. 3. 1. Iohn 3. 2. Eccles 7 vlt. 1. Iohn 2. 1. Rom. 4. 3. Heb. 11. 6. Rom. 5. 1. 10. Rom. 3. 9. Rom. 13. vlt. Hab. 2. 4. Ephes 2. 1. Col. 3. 3. 1. Ioh. 3. 2. 1. Cor. 2. 9. Rom. 11. 33. 1. Tim. 3. vlt. 1. Pet. 1. 12. Isai 7. 14. Ioh. 3. 4. 2. Cor. 1. 22. 2. Tim. 2. 19. 2. Cor. 2. 14. Rom. 11. 34. 2. Pet. 3. 16. 2 Cor. 4. 4. ler. 17. 9. 1. Ioh. 3. 2. 2. Pet. 2. 12. 1. Cor. 2. 11. 2. Cor. 12. 4. Math. 7. 1 Ioh. 4. 32. Math. 13. 44. Psal 31. 19. Exod. 5. 2. Mal. 3. 14. 1. Cor. 2. 14. Prou. 17. 7. 1. Cor. 4. 3. Luk. 23. 34. Acts. 7. vlt. Isai 52. 14. Mat. 11. 18. 19. Acts. 2. 13. 1. Thes 1. 6. 2. Cor. 6. 9. 1. Pet. 4. 12. Psal 77. 7. 51. 12. 13. Iob. 14. vlt 1. Cor. 10. 13. Ioh. 3. 8. 1. Ioh. 3. 9. Psal 119. 11. Rom. 7. vlt. 2. Tim. 2. 18. 2. Cor. 5. 6. Ephes 6. 8. Matth. 10. vlt. 2. Tim. 2. 6. Numb 23. 10. ●sal 37. 37. Psal 112. 6. Prou. 10. 7. Prou. 21. 21. ler. 17. 13. Psal 1. vlt. Psal 37. 35. Iob. 21. 7. Ephes 5. 30. Mal 3. 9. Ioh. 8. 33. Ioh. 8. 36. Psal 32. 10. 2. Thes 3. 2. Mark 16. ●6 2. Sam. 21. 20. Iudg. 1. 5. 6. 2. Pet. 1. 1. 4. Ephes 2. 8. Gal. 4. 30. 1. Cor. 5. 7. Psal 24. 7. Reu. 3. 20. Gal. 6. 9. Iob. 5. 26. 1. Thes 5. 24. Isai 38. 1. Heb. 10 38. Iob. 33. 28. Psal 16. vlt. Notes of an vpright man Psal 122. 1. Neh. 8. 12. Acts 2. 46. and 16. 25. 1. Thes 1. 6. Acts. 5 41. Iob. 5. 22. Acts 7. 55. Prou. 3. 17. Phil. 14. Psal 19. 1. Math. 9. 2. Isai 61. 10. Prou. 15. 15. Rom. 8. 1. Psal 16. 9. Iob. 19. 26.