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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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