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The righteous mans plea to true happinesse. In ten sermons, on Psal. 4 ver. 6. Preached by Iohn Stoughton Doctor in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Emanuell Colledge in Cambridge, late preacher of Aldermanbury, London.

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The righteous mans plea to true happinesse. In ten sermons, on Psal. 4 ver. 6. Preached by Iohn Stoughton Doctor in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Emanuell Colledge in Cambridge, late preacher of Aldermanbury, London.
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Stoughton, John, d. 1639.
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Printed at London :: By Tho. Cotes [, Richard Badger, and the assigns of Thomas Purfoot], for Iohn Bellamie, H. Overton, A. Crooke, I. Rothwell, I. Crooke, R. Sergier, D. Freere, and R. Smith,
1640.
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"The righteous mans plea to true happinesse. In ten sermons, on Psal. 4 ver. 6. Preached by Iohn Stoughton Doctor in Divinity, sometimes fellow of Emanuell Colledge in Cambridge, late preacher of Aldermanbury, London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A13019.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2025.

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A Methodicall Analysis of the Principall things contained in these Sermons on Psalme 4.6. as they were left written by the AVTHOVR.

Doctrine. ALl men do universally and naturally desire that good which will make them happy.

  • Explication.
    • 1. Proposition.
      • 1 What Happinesse.
        • 1 Definition it is
          • 1 Propounded
            • 1 That excellent estate
            • Of reasonable nature
            • 3 Wherein it possesseth and enjoyes
            • 4 That good which it is capable of, and can reasonably desire with satisfa∣ction and security.
          • 2 Explained
            • 1 Objective good.
                • 1 Generall
                  • 1 State of a
                  • 2 Reasonable Nature.
                  • 3 Excellent.
                • 2 Particular.
                • 1 Convenient.
                • 2 Excellent.

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                • 3 Sufficient.
                • 4 Permanent.
            • 2 Formall.
              • 1 Possession.
              • 2 Agnition.
              • 3 Estimation.
              • 4 Fruition.
                • 1 Delight.
                • 2 Content.
                • 3 Security.
        • 2 Distribution from the
          • 1 Subject.
            • 1 God.
            • 2 Reasonable creature.
              • 1 Angels,
              • 2 Men requires.
                • 1 Fruition of good
                  • 1 Internall right frame of
                    • 1 Soule
                    • 2 Body
                      • 1 Plenitude of understanding
                      • 2 Rectitude of will.
                  • 2 Externall.
                    • 1 Instrumentall. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
                    • 2 Principall. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
                • 2 Operation. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
          • 2 Kindes and degrees.
            • 1 Deficient.
            • 2 Sufficient.
            • 3 Perficient.
      • 2 How all men desire it.

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          • 1 Morally
            • 1 Ignorantly.
            • 2 Inconstantly.
          • 2 Naturally.
            • 1 Vniversally.
              • 1 Consideration of Happinesse.
                • 1 Generall.
                • 2 Particular.
              • 2 Interpretation of Appetite.
                • 1 Elicit.
                • 2 Innate.
              • 3 Condition of men.
                • 1 Wise.
                • 2 Weake.
            • 2 Necessarily.
      • 2 Probation.
        • 1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
          • 1 Scripture.
          • 2 Experience of
            • 1 Good.
            • 2 Bad.
        • 2 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Reason.
          • 1 Constitution in written.
          • 2 Not blotted out by corruption.
          • 3 Left for stocke to graffe. Renovation.
      • 2 Application.
        • 1 Instruction.
          • 1 Congruity of beginning with this
            • 1 Philosophy.
            • 2 Mechanicie.
          • 2 Excellency of Divinity. Above
            • 1 Meetes our desires.
            • 2 Helpes our defects:

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            • 3 Mercy of God towards,
              • 1 Church.
              • 1 Vs.
            • 4 Misery of Man.
              • 1 Knowes not.
              • 2 Seekes not.
              • 3 Likes not.
            • 5 Possibility and way of cure.
              • 1 Invincibly.
              • 2 Inviolately.
          • 2 Exhortation to
            • 1 Preachers.
            • 2 People.
              • 1 Observe Inclination.
              • 2 Acquire Direction.
              • 3 Fixe Resolution.
              • 4 Force Execution.

      2. Doctrine, That not the Quintessence of any, nor the con∣fluence of all created things can make a man happy.

      • 1 Explication.
        • 1 Proposition.
          • 1 Subject.
            • 1 Created good. Nor
              • 1 Quintessence of best
                • 1 Accomplishments
                  • 1 Intrinsecall of the
                    • 1 Mind. Vertues
                      • 1 Intellectuall.
                      • 2 Morall.
                    • 2 Body.
                  • 2 Extrinse∣call of
                    • For∣tune.
                • 2 Additaments.

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                    • 1 Intrinse∣call of
                      • 1 Honour.
                      • 2 Pleasures.
                    • 2 Extrinse∣call of
                      • 1 Riches.
                      • 2 Friends.
                • 2 Confluence of
                  • 1 Many
                  • 2 All.
              • 2 Without God they
                • 1 What God may make Accession.
                • 2 Without God.
                  • 1 May breed imagination of happinesse.
                  • 2 Cannot give possession of
                    • 1 Principall, Royall.
                    • 2 Reall.
            • 2 Predicate cannot give happines either
              • 1 Supernaturall. Naturall.
              • 2 Perfect. True.
          • 2 Probation.
            • 1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Mat. 5.
              • 1 Scripture.
                • 1 De.
                  • 34.12.
                  • 73.18.
                  • 44.15.
                • 2 Hos. 2.21.
                • 3 Ier. 9 23.
                • 4 Tim. 6.17.
              • 2 Experience.
                • 1 Extraordinary. Eccles.
                • 2 Ordinary.
              • 3 Reason.
            • 2 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Nature of
              • 1 Happinesse wherein must be
                • 1 Perfection.
                • 2 Satisfaction.
              • 2 Created things. 1 Each. 2 All good in them.
                • 1 Defective short
                • 2 Diminutive narrow. No
                  • 1 Perfection.
                  • 2 Satisfaction.
                • 3 Derivative shallow, without God not
                  • Had.
                  • Held.
                  • Happy

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              • 3 Man requires good
                • 1 Long immortall.
                • 2 Large universall.
                • 3 Deepe spirituall.
        • 2 Application.
          • 1 Instruction to
            • 1 Correct our Iudgements concerning happinesse of
              • 1 Others.
              • 2 Our selves.
            • 2 Convince errour of
              • 1 Worldly Philosophers.
              • 2 Godly Professors.
          • 2 Reprehension of
            • 1 Practices of the
              • 1 Worldly.
              • 2 Godly.
            • 2 Pretences: there
              • 1 Should be vast difference.
              • 2 May be cleare evidence, if we consider
                • 1 Expense of
                  • 1 Times, Paines.
                  • 2 Thoughts, Cares.
                • 2 Neglect of
                  • 1 God.
                  • 2 Neighbour.
                  • 3 Soule.
          • 3 Exhortation.
            • 1 Duty. Learne to
              • 1 Abate for world.
                • 1 Action.
                • 2 Affection.
                • 3 Apprehension. Opinion.
              • 2 Translate to better things,

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                  • 1 God.
                  • 2 Heaven.
                  • 3 Holinesse.
                • 3 Moderate.
                  • 1 Griefe of
                    • 1 Want.
                    • 2 Losse.
                  • 2 Envy.
                  • 3 Delight of Fruition.
                  • 4 Desire of possession, be ready to
                    • 1 Communicate.
                    • 2 Abdicate.
              • 2 Motives. Consider
                • 1 Vanity of the world
                  • 1 Immortall.
                  • 2 Mortall.
                • 2 Condition of man
                • 3 Excellency of Duty.

          3. Doctrine. God and his favour, the light of his countenance shining on us, is that excellent good, which can alone, without the helpe of any creatures without any created thing, make a man truely and perfectly happy.

          • 1 Explication.
            • 1 Proposition
              • 1 subject
                • 1 Materiall
                  • 1 God, according to his
                    • 1 Essence.
                    • 2 Person.
                  • 2 His favour
                    • 1 Generall.
                    • 2 Speciall.
                • 2 Formall
                  • 1 Possession by
                    • 1 Vocation.
                    • 2 Covenant.
                  • 2 Fruition.
                    • 1 Direct through
                      • 1 Donatives.
                      • 2 Duties.
                    • 2 Reflexive.
              • 2 Predicate in

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                  • 1 Generall. Good. Excellent.
                  • 2 Speciall. According to the
                    • 1 Thing, beatificall good, in life
                      • 1 Present, truely reall.
                      • 2 Future, perfectly royall.
                    • 2 Manner, Singular.
                      • 1 Without the helpe of the creature
                        • 1 Absent.
                        • 2 Adversant.
                      • 2 Himselfe alone, Sufficiently. Efficiently.
              • 2 Probation.
                • 1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
                  • 1 Scripture.
                    • 1 Testimonies
                      • 1 Numb. 16.23.
                      • 2 Epistles.
                      • 3 Psalmes.
                        • 27.4.
                        • 36.7.
                        • 65.4.
                        • 144.25.
                    • 2 Examples
                      • 1 Sam. 30.6.
                      • 2 Heb. 3.17.
                  • 2 Experience of the Faithfull.
                    • 1 Singular.
                    • 2 Particular.
                • 2 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. Nature of
                  • 1 Happinesse, requiring
                    • 1 Perfection.
                    • 2 Satisfaction.
                  • 2 Man which requires it, 1 Long. 2 Large. 3 Deep.
                  • 3 God in
                    • 1 Generall, All-sufficient by way of
                      • 1 Causality.
                      • 2 Eminency.
                      • 3 Negation.
                    • 2 Speciall.
                      • 1 Perfection.
                        • 1 Power.
                        • 2 Wisdome.
                        • 3 Goodwill.
                      • 2 Proportion.
                      • 3 Conjunction which is most
                        • 1 Intimate.
                        • 2 Indissoluble.

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          • 2 Application.
            • 1 Instruction of the ignorant.
              • 1 Godly
                • 1 Felicity.
                • 2 Dignity.
              • 2 Wicked.
                • 1 Misery.
                • 2 Indignity.
            • 2 Reprehension of the madnesse of the
              • 1 Wicked, who neither
                • 1 Seeke, God.
                • 2 Care for, God.
                • 3 Esteeme of God.
              • 2 Godly, who
                • 1 Know it.
                • 2 Professe to believe it.
                • 3 Neglect it.
            • 3 Exhortation to the weake.
              • 1 Know.
              • 2 Believe.
              • 3 Ponder.
              • 4 Meditate.
              • 5 Make God the strength of it.
                • 1 Seeke
                  • 1 Presume not upon
                    • 1 Fortune.
                    • 2 Church.
                    • 3 Knowledge.
                    • 4 Common Grace.
                  • 2 Make sure of it.
                • 2 Retaine
                  • 1 Acknowledge his favour.
                  • 2 Seeke his face.
                    • 1 Eschew evill.
                    • 2 Doe good.
                • 3 Esteeme God, so must
                  • 1 Rich.
                  • 2 Poore.
                  • 3 All.
            • 2 Motives.
              • Possession of God brings
                • 1 The grea∣test joy.
                  • 1 A more noble joy.
                  • 2 A more cordiall joy.
                  • 3 A more permanent joy.
                • 2 The sweetest peace.

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          4 Doct. Sound knowledge and beliefe, joyned with soveraigne feare and love, and both these crowned with syncere repentance and obedience, ac∣cording to the line and light of the true religion, is the only way to bring a man to true happinesse.

          • Explication. 1 Proposition. 1 Subject.
            • 1 Particular.
              • 1 Sound knowledge and beliefe.
                • 1 Act with Object.
                  • 1 Knowledge, in
                    • 1 Generall.
                    • 2 Speciall, of
                      • 1 God, in his
                        • 1 Excellent Nature; shining in his
                          • 1 Attributes.
                          • 2 Workes.
                        • 2 Revealed Will. Covenant, which he
                          • 1 Commands, in the
                            • 1 Law. Obedience.
                              • 1 Holinesse.
                              • 2 Righteousnesse.
                            • 2 Gospell.
                              • 1 Faith.
                              • 2 Repen∣tance.
                          • 2 Commends by
                            • 1 Menaces.
                            • 2 Promises.
                      • 2 Divine things.
                  • 2 Faith. Assent
                    • 1 To Gods truth.
                    • 2 On Gods Word.
                • 2 Manner. Sound, for
                  • 1 Matter. Extension. Suffi∣cient of Necessaries,
                    • 1 Respectively.
                    • 2 Absolutely.
                  • 2 Manner.
                    • 1 Substantiall. Penetrative.
                    • 2 Effectuall Operative.
              • 2 Soveraigne feare and love.
                • 1 Act.
                  • 1 Feare.
                  • 2 Love.
                • 2 Manner.
                  • 1 Sonne-like.
                  • 2 Soveraigne.
              • 3 Sincere Obedience, repentance.
                • 1 Act.
                  • 1 Repentance.
                    • 1 Morall, Legall.
                    • 2 Evangelicall.
                  • 2 Obedience.
                • 2 Manner, sincere.

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                    • 1 Characters.
                      • 1 Rise.
                      • 2 Rule.
                      • 3 Race.
                    • 2 Cognizances.
                      • 1 Vniversality. Currant. Adequate to the
                        • 1 Act, eschewing all evill, doing all good.
                        • 2 Rule, Decalogue, first, second Table.
                        • 3 State in generall. Particular Calling.
                      • 2 Perpetuity, constant.
            • 2 Generall. All these
              • 1 Are required both
                • 1 Absolutely.
                • 2 Comparatively.
                  • 1 Knowledge and Faith.
                  • 2 Feare and Love.
                  • 3 Repentance and Obedience.
              • 2 Must be regulated by the light and line of the true Religion.
                • 1 None but that can teach these.
                • 2 These are all that that teacheth.
              • 2 These are the way to all happinesse.
                • 1 What way.
                  • 1 Sufficient.
                    • 1 Effectually.
                    • 2 Onely.
                  • 2 Necessary.
                • 2 To what happinesse.
                  • 1 True.
                    • 1 Inchoate.
                    • 2 Consummate.
                  • 2 All.
              • 2 Probation.
                • 1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
                  • 1 Scripture.
                    • 1 Knowledge, Faith, Joh. 17.3.
                    • 2 Feare, Love, Prov. ••.7. Rom. 8.
                    • 3 Repentance, Obedience, Psal. 15.
                      • 1 Distinctly.
                      • 2 Conjunctly.

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                          • 1 Knowledge and faith, Ioh. 13.17.
                          • 2 Knowledge and feare, Prov. 9.10.
                          • 3 Feare and obedience, Deut. 3.29.
                          • 4 Knowledge, love, obedience, 1 Chron. 28.9.
                    • 2 Conscience.
                  • 2 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
                    • 1 Happinesse in Gods Favour.
                    • 2 Gods favour by these.
                • 2 Application.
                  • 1 Confutation.
                  • 2 Conviction.
                  • 3 Examination.
                  • 4 Reprehension.
                  • 5 Exhortation. 1 Particular. Get 1 Knowledge.
                    • 1 What for the
                      • 1 Object, divine.
                      • 2 Act.
                        • 1 Apprehension.
                        • 2 Assent.
                      • 3 Degree.
                        • 1 Extensively.
                        • 2 Intensively.
                        • 3 Proportionally.
                    • 2 How.
                      • 1 Preparatives.
                        • 1 Humility.
                        • 2 Ingenuity.
                          • 1 Freedome from
                            • 1 Partiality.
                            • 2 Prejudice.
                          • 2 Full
                            • 1 Estimation.
                            • 2 Affection.
                      • 2 Perfectives.
                        • 1 Conscience.
                        • 2 Diligence to allow time.
                          • 1 Imploy parts.
                          • 2 Improve meanes.
                            • 1 Publike.
                            • 2 Private.
                        • 3 Prudence.

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                    • 3 Wherefore Con∣sider the
                      • 1 Thing, which is a
                        • 1 Speciall ornament.
                        • 2 Initiall Lineament.
                        • 3 Perpetuall Regiment.
                        • 4 Effectuall Instrument.
                      • 2 Times of
                        • 1 Gospell.
                        • 2 Reforamation.
                    • 2 Get feare, love.
                      • 1 What, for the
                        • 1 Object, placed on God.
                        • 2 Act, tempered together.
                        • 3 Degree, Soveraigne.
                      • 2 How, in
                        • 1 Generall, by taking
                          • 1 Heed to chase away other
                            • 1 Feare.
                            • 2 Love.
                          • 2 Care to chafe in these.
                        • 2 Particular, by
                          • 1 Constant Application.
                          • 2 Vigilant Caution.
                          • 3 Frequent Excitation.
                          • 4 Pregnant Meditation of
                            • 1 Vanity of world.
                            • 2 Excellency of God.
                            • 3 Nobility of Man.
                              • 1 Immortall soule.
                              • 2 Mortall body.
                      • 3 Wherefore these,
                        • 1 Best fruit of knowledge.
                        • 2 Next root of obedience.
                        • 3 Only grace of either, without which neither
                          • 1 Knowledge saving.
                          • 2 Obedience pleasing.
                    • 3 Get repentance, obedience.
                      • 1 What, for the
                        • 1 Act, in all parts,
                          • 1 Thought.
                          • 2 Word.
                          • 3 Deed.
                        • 2 Manner, sincere.

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                            • 1 Intrinsecally, in the true
                              • 1 Rise, from
                                • 1 Knowledge, Faith.
                                • 2 Feare, Love.
                              • 2 Rule.
                              • 3 Race.
                            • 2 Extrinsecally.
                              • 1 Vniversall, in
                                • 1
                                • 2 Negative, Affirmative.
                                • 3 Thought, Word, Deed.
                              • 2 Perpetuall.
                        • 2 How, in
                          • 1 Particular, by
                            • 1 Increasing forme,
                            • 2 Excercising these.
                              • 1 Knowledge.
                              • 2 Faith.
                              • 3 Feare.
                              • 4 Love.
                          • 2 Generall.
                            • 1 Serious consideration, whereto take
                              • 1 Heed of
                                • 1 Carnall
                                  • 1 Reasonings.
                                  • 2 Feare.
                                  • 3 Sloth.
                                • 2 Worldly distractions.
                              • 2 Hint of
                                • 1 Outward occasions.
                                • 2 Inward motions.
                            • 2 Strong resolution.
                            • 3 Speedy execution.
                        • 3 Wherefore, these are the
                          • 1 Scope of Both.
                          • 2 Seale of Truth.
                          • 3 Scale of all our
                            • 1 Owne consolation.
                            • 2 Neighbours edification.
                            • 3 Gods glorification.
                  • 2 Generall. Seeke
                    • 1 All these.
                      • 1 How, in the due
                        • 1 Order.
                        • 2 Temper.
                        • 3 Manner.
                      • 2 Wherefore.
                        • 1 Each of them in conjunction
                          • 1 Beautifies.
                          • 2 Fortifies.
                          • 3 Beatifies.
                        • 2 Neither of them in separation can
                          • 1 Subsist in sincerity.
                          • 2 Support in anxiety.
                          • 3 Suffice in felicity.

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                    • 2 True Religion.
                      • 1 Magnifie.
                      • 2 Certifie.
                      • 3 Satisfie.
                    • 3 Happinesse, in these.
                      • 1 What, happinesse, which is
                        • 1 Desirable, attaineable.
                        • 2 Miserable in world.
                        • 3 Incomparable in God.
                        • 4 Indubitable in this way.
                      • 2 Why.
                        • 1 Necessity of thing.
                        • 2 Mortality of man.
                        • 3 Mutability of times.
                        • 4 Excellency of gaine.
                        • 5 Oppurtunity of grace.
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