is a hungry Joy, this a filling; His strength shall be hunger bitten, Job 18. 12. but John 16. 24. Your joy shall be full.—In thy pre∣sence fulnesse of Ioy: and the heart full of this Joy saith not with Esau in a bravado, I have enough, but with Jacob and Paul, I have all, and abound, I am full, &c. Phil 4. 18. Though as having nothing, yet I possess more then all things.
4. Soul quickning, making the soul a∣ctive, vigilant, fit to pray, sing, praise, fit for Duty, suffering, dying. Godly men are never so fit for duty, never so prepared to dy as with these comforts. The Martyrs have gone singing and dancing with these to the flames. When Judas was gone out to fetch the Officers to apprehend Christ, then did Christ rejoice, Now is the Son of Man glo∣rified, now shall God be glorified in him. God shall first be glorified in him, then straight∣way glorifie him in himselfe. This puts that Spirit of Glory, and of God upon the Saints.
The wicked mans Joy is intoxicating, stu∣pifying, besotting, as Hamans, Belshazzers, Benhadads; they eat, drink, feast, and flesh'd with fleshly delights, they run desperately upon danger, as Benhadad, or Gaal the son of Ebed; much like the horse rushing into the Battel, and crying, Aha at the sound of the Trumpet; or else besotted; they eat, drink, sleep, spend their dayes in peace, and in a moment go down quick into Hell. like