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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

condemned already Many in their fond imaginations thinke that like the Giant of Gath they haue vpon the hand of their faith sixe fingers yet alas when they come in the day of death or time of triall to feed on the promise to put on the Lord Iesus Christ they like Adonibezek will lacke their thumbes and dye for want of feeding on the food and true bread of eternall life Now the righteous haue not only the precious promises but also precious faith the which two being vnited carry the whole man into the garner of God and large field of the kingdome of glory for me are saued by faith And as the sickle is to the hand of the reaper so is faith to the soule of the righteous and true beleeuer Reason 4 And last of all hee that is a reaper of these fauours must fit himselfe for the kingdome of heauen and that the Lord of glory may come in He must cast out the bondwoman and her sonne Satan and all the seeds of sinne purge himselfe of the old leauen cleanse the inside of the cup and platter of his soule and this will none but the righteous doe vngodly men lodge their Lord in the Inne they cast him into a cratch suffer him to knocke yet permit him not to enter and suppe with them They will not dresse and sweepe the floore of their soules cast out the rotten goundsell in the barnes of their hearts and emptie themselues of that rubbish that shutteth the doore dammeth vp the roome and shouldreth out this heauenly ricke this haruest of the Lord But the righteous they sweepe the house make way for the haruest open the doore pluck vp the euerlasting gates and giue the King of glory good great and royall entertainment so that he will sup with them they with him and partake of all his fatlings Vse 1 And seeing the point thus by reason and Scripture confirmed let vs come to make application And here in the first place we may see the vanity of our prophane and vngodly persons who crie out as the people in former times if wee preach this doctrine that Only the righteous reap these great fauours you take too much vpon you Moses and Aaron for all the congregation is holy Thus they in this cleere light of the Gospell say what in their hearts with the foole No in publique and seeke to defend it that All shall be heires of Gods greatest benefits not one shall perish And wee say too that if they be righteous and for number as the dust of the earth or starres in heauen that they shal all inherit the kingdom of God and of glorie but if they be proud vniust deceitful and want vpright hearts were they as the sand on the sea shore drops in the huge Ocean graines on the ground or fishes in the water for multitude that so liuing and so dying they must reape nothing but wrath vengeance and the largest fields of Gods highest displeasure euery mothers sonne Darkness trembling terror and the sting of the second death shal be the sheafe of their field the corne of their barne and the best graine that shall be preserued for the garner of their soules for they were neuer vnited to Christ haue any right to the promises truth of faith in their hearts neither would open the gates of their soules that the King of glorie might come in and finde fauourable acceptation And yet for all this in the land of vprightnes they will doe wickedly What shal I say or where shal I begin and when make an end Haue wee not the biting vsurie the cursed couetousnesse the deuouring oppression the destroying extortion the shop of dearth darknes and deceit the vnequall weight mixt ware and counterfeit stuffe And as sure as the word of God is true and holy and iust that vpon whom these foule sinnes shall be found hee shall dye the death I know that this is a hard position to settle in their minds yet he that denieth this for a truth must turne Atheist gainsay that there is a resurrection a iudgement to come and a iust Iudge that reuengeth all wrong Psal 50. 21. 2. Pet. 3. 3. 4. Vse 2 And in the second place here is a world of comfort to the vpright in heart For whatsoeuer the Lord hath sowne in earth or heauen if thou faint not thou shalt reape in due time In earth thou shalt haue food and raiment fit and conuenient and if need be in great abundance Let the waters swell the sea rore the earth tremble the winde blow and the floods come yet thou shalt escape all danger Let the Sunne be darke the Moone turned into blood the Starres fall the heauens burne and the elements melt with heate yet iust Lot shall be deliuered Noah escape drowning for righteousnes is written in thy forehead and the destroyer shall not destroy thee What if thou sow in teares plow vp thy ground in a time of mourning yet thou shalt reape with ioy and by the hand of the Angell be carried like a rick of come in due time into the garner of God For faithfull is he that hath promised and will surely doe it Hee hath sowen and his sonnes shall reape though the haruest be long in comming the crop shall be the bigger the better Therefore in the middest of all thy sorrowes let this meditation comfort thy soule that the righteous and vpright in heart of which number thou art shall be the reapers of Gods greatest benefits Vse 3 And seeing this is thus Let no man say that It is in vaine to serue the Lord and that Godlinesse is not gainfull for it is profitable euery manner of way Iob serues not God for nought neither doth righteousnes preuent riches The fooles prouerbe is that He that vseth plaine dealing shall die a beggar I say no and adde more that hee that doth not vse it shall dye like Iudas a very beast and iudge whether is the better I can tell you that when the heauy sentence shall visit vs that did Ezekiah Thou must dye not liue then will the worth of a well led life be a matter of moment a thing much set by seene into and this tidings shal come and will not tarry and then shall the iust liue by his faith haue boldnes of spirit and reape that riches the great husband in heauen had sowne and prepared from the beginning for the vpright Then shall he haue all teares wiped from his eyes rest from his labours and his life shall see the euerlasting light yea he shall reape fulnes of ioy freedome from all bondage and pleasures for euermore Vse 4 And in the last place seeing the righteous are the only reapers of the Lords greatest blessings it must be a strong motiue to moue vs to be such We would all be set at libertie both spirituall and corporall enjoy all the blessings that the great

peculiar to the Lords people and is not this a matter of mirth great moment Shall a man reioyce and march cheerefully in being garnished with the ornaments of nature and be dead in the nest when hee is wrapped in this pure and white linnen What saith the Church in this respect I will greatly reioyce in the Lord and my soule shall be glad in my God Why for he hath clothed me with the garments of saluation and couered me with the robe of righteousnes he hath decked me like a bridegroome and as a bride tireth her selfe with her iewels this is the garment of true gladnesse Reason 3 And furthermore hath not the vpright man a good conscience Is not this a continuall feast No colour so pleasand to the eye wine to the pallate or any obiect to the outward sense as this is to the inner man the reasonable soule Oh that men did but know what musicke this doth make what ioy it carrieth to the right owner of it then would they neuer doubt of the truth of this doctrine but they doe not they cannot for they be strangers from it it from them Reason 4 Besides all this They be assured of rest at their death peace in heauen the resurrection of the body and eternall saluation This made Dauids heart glad and his flesh rest in hope This comforted iust Iob in all his troubles that he should liue and rise againe the beleeuing Iewes in the expectation of this had ioy vnspeakable glorious Paul went on cheerefully in the assurance of the same And beloued let the world think what they will or can here is the true roote and fountaine out of which all sound ioy and mirth springeth floweth Vse 1 And is not here iustly confuted that opinion of many in our daies who thinke that Godlines is the damper of all mirth and cause of continuall sorrow Oh say such become so strict so precise then farewell ioy and all true comfort for it bringeth nothing but melancholy and vexation of spirit This is the Diuels old shift to make men vnwilling to take the path to heauen and see into the consolations of a Christian course I remember that the Spies who came backe from Canaan commended the countrey but said they saw great Giants and fenced Cities to dishearten those which should enter and so doth Satan Gods Saints and seruants at this day And when all is done that can be done the vpright man shall be the only merry man for his yoke is easie and his burthen light Me thinkes this might confirme the poynt and conuince any person that thinketh otherwise Why do not men cast off this course if there be no ioy in it and take another If wee should see a man that hath great varietie of suites still weare one and the same lay the rest by him would wee not affirme that hee is much affected with that he weareth If a man haue diuers walkes in or about his Orchard yet is alwaies found to be in one no other wil it not be concluded that his delight in that exceedeth So the children of God still weare one suite keep one path pleasure or profit doth not alter them then may wee not absolutely conclude that they finde mirth in running the waies of Gods commands pleasure in his precepts and ioy in putting on the robes of righteousnes Obiection But the common obiection is None more sad to see to none lesse chearefull to behold than such as seeme to be most religious vpright-hearted Answer Why haue we not already heard that their haruest is secret hidden For as in laughter the heart may be sorrowfull so vnder a sad countenance the heart may be merry And as the wicked haue many a secret sting the righteous feele not so haue the vpright hidden comforts that the wicked know not And it is the nature and very propertie of great things in stead of laughter in the face to cause great ioy in the heart Let a man finde a rich Iewel or bagge of siluer in the streete will he not goe away with a composed and setled countenance whē as another that stoopes at a trifle will fall a smiling Hast thou not seene one that drinkes strong wine wipe his mouth stroke the breast and neuer change the former looke and yet peraduenture another that drinkes but water will smile laugh and seeme a merry man The one doth warme and glad the heart the other only force a fained kinde of laughter And seldome hast thou seene a man outwardly merry in the fruition of great matters neither doe wee reade of Christ that hee and who euer had greater cause in all his life time laughed The wine of the grape and water of life will glad the soule and worke inwardly a depth of cōfort though it alwaies breake not foorth and be conspicuous in the beholders so the things of this world may make a man outwardly merry but this mirth is not sound constant and will but end 〈◊〉 mourning Wee must consider that 〈…〉 the mindes motion 〈…〉 diuersitie of effects in mans our 〈◊〉 ●isposition Let the infant in the mothers arme cast its eyes on some bugbeare will it not fall a crying yet let it looke the bearer in the face then anone it will laugh reioyce and fall to smiling so when the vpright man considereth the many and strong corruptions that be in him the greatnes and number of sinnes that haue proceeded from him the long time and extraordinary meanes of grace that hath been abused by him he cannot but be troubled in heart and hang downe the head but on the contrary when hee calleth to minde that God accepts the weak and sincere endeuour for the deed how Christ is his perfection and that the Spirit will one day cleane dissolue root out the cursed worke of Satan and finish the good work of grace he hath begun in him then he gathereth comfort plucketh vp his heart and is a right merry man He hath his daies wherein he is a man of sorrow as at his first conuersion when the soule is trauelling of the New-birth with many a sigh and deepe groane againe in some desertion violent tentation or time of Gods fiery triall and probation And finally when the walls of Ierusalem lie waste the sepulchres of his Fathers be ruinated and the course of Religion infringed corrupted then his sighes are many and his heart is heauy Neh. ● 3. But what for all this Is not the doctrine sound Yes for ioy shall breake foorth in the morning peace will come and thy bitter teares shall be as a fresh and coole 〈◊〉 to a wearie and thirstie tra●eller to comfo●● 〈◊〉 ouer-tyred spirit And I dare set downe this peremptorie conclusion that In the greatest 〈◊〉 the vpright man is the subject of 〈◊〉 mirth the only merry man for the cause of his ioy is alwaies great and constant though the effects be not proportionable Vse 2 Againe this doctrine may