There is a kind of smiling and joyful laughter, for any thing I know, which may stand with sober gravity, and with the best man's piety, justly occasioned from the right apprehension of things; else had not Abraham fallen into it (Gen. 17.17), nor holy Job (Job. 29.24), nor the righteous in seeing (which is strange) matter of fear (Psa. 52.6)
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Godly Laughter
Richard Bernard, The Isle of Man, p. 57:
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