4.29 ARemedie for Securitie, LAM 4.9. Let your Laughter be turned intomourning,endyour Loy into heattineffe. Twas a good pieceof Follicle which the Kingof e4ramcom The occ,fon manded histwo and thirty Captains; when theywere to goe ofchoocng out to battell againfi Iirael : Fight ( fait! he) neither woh[manner thisTcxs. great, faceoney againfi the Kigef s /free!, Hee knew, that the a11(ing.is.3t King being onceElaine, thewhole army would the looser bee r+.;.,_ difcomfited, The like pollicy I thought very fitting for me to obferucatthistime. Many and greatare the finnesofthis generation, and (as t was faidofSodom) The crieeftbem is camevp before the bLord: But there is one b Gen. r8.st grand-fin, vponwhich allthere {t haue theirdependancce,which, if wewhole officeit is happy as toihbdue,doubt-e Tim.t.rs. leffewefhould See Sethanfalldómne from heauen*lightninga, and manycomedLukero.aS;. to Amendment oflife em ofhisfharp,snlitch are, (now) taken ofbinsat hie wilte. And e s To,. sot this is the finneofSecuriiy. Againfithis I haue thought good to bend mywhole forceat this time, and for thatend Ihaue outof this Brooke of Saint lames his fhall peafefotobleuemyfl ulellinga,fineite his Gall binnthefesehead,antdmake itofall auehm to the earths, which everywhere, and in euery place doth (like that fssasi.ty.gq, monft ofthePhiliftims)fo intollerably blalpheme the lining God. This is my qg. general] drift, and this is alfo(as I may fo call st)theSbafi, whichdhaue cholen out ofthe Lords quiuer for this purpofe. The wordsmay bediuided°intotwo peels : The grftis, ARellraiut fiot» The dsnxrn femething which at evils; Laughterand ley. The fecond is,Aperfwa ion toagood con. Crary thereunto, Mourningand,Heauineffe. Ofboth thc(ein courfe. In handling the fir id part, it mull fiat bee enquired what Laughter it is, and What iaz4 what ley, agai ftwhich Saintlames ferteth himfelfe inthis place. Laughter, is gh oneof choieendowments withwhich God Ritaifhcd the Nature ofman at his terand ioy S. senses mea- firft crearion,and therefore cannot be limplyrush, Againe,it is faid;that Abra Long Laughed, whenGod promifed him aSon; which generally is interpreted B Cienaytys tobe that Reieycing of his inthe Day ofChrift , which ourSaulone himlelfe se- portethof himh : for which eaufe lzhakhad his name glues himbyGods ap. h ioh.8.5e. pointmenti, ai a memorial! thereof, itbeing as much to fay inEnglithas i Gen. 17.4 Laughter. PPhen theLardbrought apaise the capauityefZion, (laid the thankefull peopleafter the returne from Babylon ) thenwat mar monthfil ledwith Laughter t'.kPfaita6,},a The fame maybesilo laidof lay. For among the Front ofthe Spirit, ley is nun, bred 1, and it is ablefíìnopromifed, that the Voyceofley allbein theTabernacles ss. of the R Jh ighteous m. Therefore to avoid all ambiguityoftearmes,andtoknow mpfal :mat precifely and diftinaly, what it is whichSaint lames here d'fffwades, wemuft thusdiftmguifh. There is two -fold la orLau hter mentioned in Scripture: Arsa-full The one aflaipicy; The other aHellfhicy. TheHoly boy hatis for the author toyi- lyloy Ofit,theSpirit of God; therefore it is called ley in the holyCJ hofi n : thematter of u Rom'qty iris, the light ofijad, ceaa,eeriance o, theaffuránce ofhis grace inChtifi, the fee- opial.ao,y, ling ones (cure to be clot bedwits the 'amenoffeluation P. the meafute of it is filch y tine ,t o. that it is mxfpad(eablea ; the perpetuity fach , that no man eau rake it from thofc R t're .5. that have it None canconceive it but ht which feeleth it, the flranger /mailtact'
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