Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life. And the vaine mirth of a wicked life, with the sorrovves of it. / By Zach: Bogan of C.C.C. Oxon.
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- Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life. And the vaine mirth of a wicked life, with the sorrovves of it. / By Zach: Bogan of C.C.C. Oxon.
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- Bogan, Zachary, 1625-1659.
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- Oxford, :: Printed by H. Hall for R. Davis.,
- 1653.
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- Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
- Joy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.
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"Meditations of the mirth of a Christian life. And the vaine mirth of a wicked life, with the sorrovves of it. / By Zach: Bogan of C.C.C. Oxon." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A76967.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 17, 2025.
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To my honoured Mother Mris IOANE BOGAN.
I Have at length, upon your earnest desire, adventured to publish those unworthy lines long since scribled, concerning the Joy of a Christian life. If any aske you wondering, how I, that have spent whole yeares altogether in Sad∣nesse, came to talke of Mirth: you may answer them, that I speake not of what I have my selfe (the Lord knowes, I have little cause to have any, conside∣ring my many sinnes (but what I think, other Christians better then I am, may have. Before you, or any one els, do read me, I desired much to be cleared in two things 1. That I have not the least mean∣ing to favour any carnall merriment. The mirth which I speak of, is the mirth on∣ly
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of a Christian life. 2. That I never thought my selfe better able to doe this work, then other men. My heart knowes, I am too little a Christian, to doe it, as it might be done. Onely I sup∣posed, that there had not been much done this way allready. If my doing it ill, may anger any one to doe it better; I shall be exceeding well pleased. I had been larger in the last part of the book, had I not been hindred by a trouble∣some, and dangerous sicknesse, which began upon me when I began to print, and continued in it's extremity almost till I ended. Whatsoever is not much enough, or well enough; I hope the Lord will make amends for it, in the blessing: to whose protection I commit you, and rest
C.C.C. June 3. 1653.
Your Obedient Sonne ZACHARY BOGAN.