Selections From the Works of Jeremy Taylor: With Some Account of the Author And His Writings
Selections From the Works of Jeremy Taylor: With Some Account of the Author And His Writings
Jeremy Taylor
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It is a rejoicing in God, a gladness in our neighbor's good, a pleasure in doing good, a rejoicing with him ; and without love we can- not have any joy at all. It is this that makes children to be a pleasure, and friendship to be so noble and divine a thing ; and upon this account it is certain that all that which can innocently make a man cheerful does also make him charitable ; for grief, and age, and sickness, and weariness, these are peevish and troublesome ; but mirth and cheerfulness is c...ontent, and civil, and compliant, and com- municative, and loves to do good, and swells up to felicity only upon the wings of charity. Upon this account here is pleasure enough for a Christian at present; and if a facetious dis- course, and an amicable friendly mirth, can Hosted by Google 140 COMMON SWEARING. refresh the spirit, and take it off from the vile temptation of peevish, despairing, uncomplying melancholy, it must needs be innocent and commendable. And we may as well be re- freshed by a clean and a brisk discourse as by the air of Campanian wines ; and our faces and our heads may as well be anointed and look pleasant with wit and friendly intercourse as with the fat of the balsam -tree ; and such a conversation no wise man ever did or ought to reprove.
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