A Sermon Preached at Saint Dunstans

              1A I sermon preached in saint dunstano dunstans Dun stans i thessalonians5i6 thessalonians THESSALONIANS 516 5.16 516 REJOYCE EVERMORE E READE in in the naturall naturale Naturall story of some floating islands W WEthatswimswimandmovefromplacetoplace andinthema man may sowe in one place and reape in another this case is so farre ours as that in another place we have sowed bowed in teares beares and by his promise in whose teares beares we sowed bowed then when we handled those two words jesus wept we shall reape in joy that harvest is not yet it is reserved to the last resurrection but the corne is above ground in the resurrection of our head the first fruits of the dead christ jesus and that being the first visible steppe of his exaltation begins our exultation who in him are to rejoyce evermore the heart knoweth Jno ino meth weth heth his own bitternesse bitternesse he and none but he others feele beele it not retaine betaine it not pity it not and therefore sales the text A stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy he shall have a joy which no stranger not he himselfe himselfe whilest whitest he was a stranger to god and to him selfe could conceive if we aske as christs disciples asked of him quod signum what shall be the signe of thy comming of this joy in the midst of thy bitternesse bitternesse ifipsce ree see sce lachryma lachrymcs lachrymx ixtitir lcetltlce testes & nuncia nuncii the tears themselves shall be the sign the tears shall be ambassadours of joy a present gladnesse gladnesse shall consecrate your sorrow and teares beares shall baptize and give a new name to your passion for your worm- wood shall be manna even then when it is wormwood it shall be manna for gaudebitis Gaude bitis semper you shall rejoyce evermore but our text does more then imply a promise to us for it lales a precept upon us it is not gaudebitis Gaude bitis you shall rejoyce by way of comfort but it is gaudete rejoyce see that you doe rejoyce by way I1