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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47646	Sermons preached by Dr. Robert Leighton, late archbishop of Glasgow published at the desire of his friends, after his death, from his papers written with his own hand.	Leighton, Robert, 1611-1684.	1692 (1692)	Wing L1031; ESTC R29941	164,938	342

shine because this Sun arose first in their Horizon Christ came of the Jews and came first to them The Redeemer shall come to Zion says our Prophet in the former Chapter but miserable Jerusalem knew not the day of her Visitation nor the things that concerned her peace and therefore are they now hid from her eyes She delighted to deceive her self with fancies of I know not what imaginary grandeur and outward glory to which the promised Messiah should exalt her and did in that kind particularly abuse this very Prophesie so doteing upon a sense grosly literal she forfeited the enjoyment of those Spiritual Blessings that are here described But undoubtedly that people of the Jews shall once more be commanded to arise and shine and their return shall be the riches of the Gentiles and that shall be a more glorious time than ever the Church of God did yet behold Nor is there any inconvenience if we think that the high expressions of this Prophesie have some spiritual reference to that time since the great Doctor of the Gentiles applies some words of the former Chapter to that purpose Rom. 11. 29. They forget a main point of the Churches glory that pray not daily for the Jews Conversion But to pass that and insist on the Spiritual sense of these words as directed to the whole Church of Christ. They contain a powerful incitement to a twofold act inforc'd as I conceive by one reason under a twofold expression neither of them superfluous but each giving light to other and suiting very aptly with the two words of command Arise for the glory of the Lord is risen and shine for thy light is come I will not now subdivide these parts again and cut them smaller but will rather unite them again into this one Proposition The coming and presence of Christ ingages all to whom he comes to arise and shine In this proposition may be considered the nature of the duties the universality of the subject and the force of the reason First the nature of the duties what it is to arise and shine Arising hath either reference to a fall or to some contrary posture of sitting or lying or to one of these two conditions that are so like one another Sleep or Death and to all these Spiritually understood may it here be referr'd This is the voice of the Gospel to the Sons of Adam Arise for in him they all fell The first sin of that first Man was the great Fall of Mankind it could not but undo us it was from so high a Station Our daily sins are our daily falls and they are the fruits of that great one Thou hast fallen by thine iniquity says the Lord to his people Hosea 14. 1. for these postures of sitting and lying the Scripture makes use of them both to signifie the state of sin Says not St. John The world lies in wickedness 1 Joh. 5. 19 Are not the people said to sit in darkness mentioned Matth. 4. 16 which is directly opposite to Arise and Shine In the darkness of Egypt it is said the people sate still none arose from their places In the gross mist of Corrupt Nature Man cannot bestir himself to any Spiritual action but when this light is come then he may and should arise Now for Sleep and Death Sin is most frequently represented in Holy Writ under their black Vizors To forbear places where they are severally so used we shall find them jointly in one Eph. 5. 14. Arise thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead which place seems to have special allusion to this very Text. The impenitent Sinner is as one buried in sleep his Soul is in darkness fit for sleep and loves to be so That he may sleeep the sounder he shuts all the passages of light as enemies to his rest and so by close Windows and Curtains makes an artificial Night to himself within not a beam appears there though without the clear day of the Gospel shines round about him The senses of his Soul as we may call them are all bound up and are not exercised to discern good and evil as the Apostle speaks Heb. 5. 14. And his leading faculty his understanding is surcharged with sleepy Vapors that arise incessantly from the inferiour part of his Soul his perverse affections nor hath his mind any other exercise in this sleepy condition but the vain business of dreaming his most refined and wisest thoughts are but meer extravagancies from Man's due end and his greatest contentments nothing but Golden Dreams yet he is serious in them and no wonder for who can discern the folly of his own Dream till he is awake He that Dreams he eateth when he awakes finds his Soul empty and not till then Isa. 29. 8. Now while he thus sleeps his great business lyes by yet spends he his hand-breadth of time as fast while he is fast asleep as if he were in continual employment judge then if it b● not needful to bid this Man Arise Lastly This voice may import that Man is Spiritually Dead God is the life of the Soul as it is of the Body while he dwells there it s both comely and active but once destitute of his presence becomes a Carcass where besides privation of life and motion there is a positive filthiness a putrefaction in the Soul unspeakably worse than that of dead Bodies Corruptio optimi pessima And as dead Bodies are removed from the sight of Mon dead Souls are cast out from the favourable sight of God till Christ's saying Arise revive them The Ministers of the Word are appointed to cry Arise indifferently to all that hear them and Christ hath reserved this priviledge and liberty to joyn his effective voice when and to whom he pleases A carnal Man may shew his Teeth at this but who is he that can by any solid reason charge absurdity upon this way of dispensing outward and inward Vocation I will not here mention their idle Cavils the Scripture is undeniably clear in these That Man is naturally dead in Sin The Gospel bids him Arise and it is Christ that is his life and that raises him Thus we see in some measure what it is for Men to Arise Now being risen they must Shine and that two ways jointly and publickly as they make up visible Churches and likewise personally in their particular Conversation First then What is the shining of the true Church Doth not a Church then shine when Church Service is raised from a decent and primitive Simplicity and decored with Pompous Ceremonies with rich Furniture and gaudy Vestments Is not the Church then Beautiful Yes indeed but all the question is whether this be the proper genuine beauty or no whether this be not strange fire as the fire that Aarons Sons used which became vain and was taken as strange fire Methinks it cannot be better decided then to refer it to St. John in his Book of the Revelations We find there