The rule of rejoycing, or, A direction for mirth in a sermon preached upon Trinity-Sunday, being the 18th of June in the year of our Lord 1671 / by John Straight ...

About this Item

Title: The rule of rejoycing, or, A direction for mirth in a sermon preached upon Trinity-Sunday, being the 18th of June in the year of our Lord 1671 / by John Straight ...
Author: Straight, John, 1605?-1680.
Publication: London :: Printed for Edward Thomas ...,; 1671.
Rights/Permissions: This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further information or permissions.
Subject terms: Bible. -- N.T. -- Philippians IV, 4 -- Sermons.
Cite this Item: "The rule of rejoycing, or, A direction for mirth in a sermon preached upon Trinity-Sunday, being the 18th of June in the year of our Lord 1671 / by John Straight ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A61729.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2024.

Pages

The Second Part, Limitation.

This (Beloved) is the qualifying, the seasoning, and the bounding of our Mirth; It must be in the Lord: Why? Ʋllumne gaudium nisi in Dorino? saith Aug. Yes, there is, as the same Father hath it, Gaudium Va∣nitatis, as well as Gaudium Veritatis; that is, there is a joy of Vanity, as well as a joy of Verity. There is a twofold joy, there is a hellish joy, and there is a holy joy; the one is inhibited, the other imposed. The vain joy of the world, or rather, the worlds joy in vanity, is interdicted; the holy joy, the joy of verity, the rejoycing in the Lord, that is it which is here enjoyned in our Apostles Edict, Rejoyce in the Lord.