§. III.
Now whether these words, Rejoyce evermore, which are confessedly Apostolical, contain a Precept, or an Advice; they prove it possible and lawful, for a Follower of CHRIST
An effectual prescription against the anguish of all diseases and against all other afflictions to which the nature of man is subject. Penn'd, and publish'd, and approv'd, from the author's experience of it: but more especially from the experience of very many much greater and better men, the latchet of whose shoes he is not worthy to untie.
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- An effectual prescription against the anguish of all diseases and against all other afflictions to which the nature of man is subject. Penn'd, and publish'd, and approv'd, from the author's experience of it: but more especially from the experience of very many much greater and better men, the latchet of whose shoes he is not worthy to untie.
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- Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691.
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"An effectual prescription against the anguish of all diseases and against all other afflictions to which the nature of man is subject. Penn'd, and publish'd, and approv'd, from the author's experience of it: but more especially from the experience of very many much greater and better men, the latchet of whose shoes he is not worthy to untie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54840.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2025.
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to be still Rejoycing. For were it impossible to be done, St. Paul would be so far from com∣manding the practice of it, that he would not so much as commend it to us: and were the practice of it unlawful, he would neither com∣mend nor recommend it, but severely stigma∣tize, and forbid it rather. It follows then that we can, and that we may Rejoyce always in all Conditions; that is, with such a true joy as St. Paul alludes to, which is not Carnal, but Spiritual; not an Outward, and Superficial, but an Internal and solid Joy: Not the Joy of a Worldling, or of Riotous Debauchee, which stands in temporary Fits of sport and laugh∣ter; (For a vicious Man may laugh with an heavy Heart;) But the never-failing Ioy of a sin∣cerely pious Man, which ariseth from a clean and a quiet Conscience.* 1.1 Crede mihi (saith Se∣neca) res severa est verum Gaudium. Perma∣nent Joy, which alone is real, is nothing else but the serenity and satisfaction of a Man's mind; ever at peace within it self, because it does nil conscire sibi, hath no false dealing, or Unsincerity to disturb it,* 1.2 as being void of all offence towards God and Man. This alone is True Ioy; Joy which will be True to us; on all occasion stick by us; and dwell inseparably with us, when other Joys vanish away, like the Morning Dew.
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* 1.1
Sen. Ep. 13.
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* 1.2
Acts 24. 16.