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Richard Hooker

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THE LAWS OF ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY

Book V Chapter lxxi [10.]

 

[10.] The joy that setteth aside labour disperseth those things which labour gathereth.  For gladness doth always arise from a kind of fruition and happiness, which happiness banisheth the cogitation of all want, it needeth nothing but only the bestowing of that it hath, inasmuch as the greatest felicity that felicity hath is to spread and enlarge itself; it cometh hereby to pass that the first effect of joyfulness is to rest, because it seeketh no more; the next, because it aboundeth, to give.  The root of both is the glorious presence of that joy of mind which riseth from the manifold considerations of God's unspeakable mercy, into which considerations we are led by occasion of sacred times.