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The Causes of Joy

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Dec 11, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 47.

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The Causes of Joy

Jeremy Taylor, the illustrious preacher at Golden Grove, himself a suffering and sometimes persecuted man, after enumerating vividly life's trials, says: "They have taken all from me. What now? Let me look about me. Unless I list, they have not taken away my merry countenance, and my cheerful spirit, and my good conscience. They still have left me God's providence and Christ's promises, and my religion, and my hopes of Heaven. I can delight in all that in which God delights, and in God himself. He that hath so many causes of joy, and so great, must be very much in love with sorrow, who loses all these pleasures, and chooses to sit down on his own little handful of thorns."