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 look up and lift up your heads for the day of your redemption draweth near. They were casting down their heads, but faith most rejoice in the hope of an out-gate.

Let us give honour to him. Joy should not want praise: Alas! we rejoice in ourselves, and not in God: It is a bastard joy that is injoined without praise, Psal. xxxiii. 1, 2. ''Rejoice in the Lord ye righteous: Praise the Lord with harp In 1 Thess. v 16. the apostle Paul couples these together Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing, in all thing's give thanks''. It is fory music in heaven that wants praising of him who sits on the throne. Our Lord gets often deaf nuts from us in our spiritual joy: We take joy as a breakfast, to chear up our foolish sense, and sit down upon our joy. and whine as we do: So we wrong our Lord, when our joy bringeth not forth thanksgiving.

It is not enough to rejoice that ye hope to get a kiss of Christ in ordinances, except ye come to this, to give him a sacrifice of praise. We often draw our joy home to ourselves, and make Christ a babe to play ourselves with, and feed our foolish sense with: were we thankful, and refer all our sense to praising you would not get so many hungry meals. But what is the matter? Wherefore are we bidden rejoice and be glad? The Kirk speaks her words with a warrant, wherefore rejoice: know ye no better? Have not ye good cause to rejoice? Is not the Lamb's marriage come? Then nothing more feeds the soul of the godly with delight nor this, that the marriage-day is come and at hand. It is something worth indeed, that the poor widow, the Kirk, has married