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A76372	Jesus Christ the mysticall or Gospell sun, sometimes seemingly eclipsed, yet never going down from his people: or, Eclipses spiritualized. Opened in a sermon at Paul's before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, &c. March 28. 1652. The day before the late solar eclipse. By Fulk Bellers, Master of Arts, and preacher of the Gospel in the city of London.	Bellers, Fulk, b. 1605 or 6.	1652 (1652)	Wing B1827; Thomason E665_15; ESTC R206852	31,076	41

And they make it out by demonstrations that it is 166 times bigger then the earth How much greater then is the Creatour of the Sun then that firmamentary sun it selfe We know that by the Word i. e. Jesus Christ l John 1.3 all things even the Sun it selfe were made We finde the Prophet crying out m Isai 53.8 Who may declare his generation And I may say Who can declare his greatnesse no creature I am sure is able to demonstrate it z Psal 145.3 because there is no end of his greatnesse it is unsearchable The heavens do contain the firmamentary sun but the Heaven of heavens cannot contain this mysticall Sun in regard of his Deity 4. His Forme and Oneness 1 The form of the Sun is of an orbicular round figure a c Pierius lib. 39 de Cireulo clear embleme of eternity for in a circle there is neither beginning nor ending We read of n Heb. 7.3 Melchisedek that he was without beginning of dayes or end of life viz. as recorded in the history of Moses And in that he was a lively type of Jesus Christ who as God is the first and the last God blessed for ever 2. For Oneness We know that there are many stars Sol quòd solus esset solus luceret reliquis stellis lucem impcrtiret Cicer. 2. de Natura deorum but one Sun that gives light to the world There are many Saints that receive of Christs light continually as the stars from the body of the Sun In Arabia there is as they say to be found but one Phoenix And in the body certainly there is but one heart In the firmament but one Sun and in the Church but p 1 Tim. 2.5 one Mediatour between God and man the man Christ Jesus 5. In regard of motion The Sun we know is very quick and that in twenty four hours it doth encircle the whole world David representeth him q Psal 19.5 6. to run like a giant the race that is set before him that is 1 Very swiftly infinitely faster then a man of the largest sieze or the longest breath David's illustration though some way expressive doth fall short of the Sun in the quickness of its motion A bird upon the wing an arrow shot out of the bow cannot possibly reach the sun upon point of speed How many thousand miles doth he run within an hour Bellarmin de Ascens mentis in Deum gradu 7º mihi pag. 146. It was a curious observation of that Cardinall when hee had the full prospect of the body of the Sun ready to go down to try a conclusion of the quicknesse of the motion of it took the Psalmes into hand Before saith he that I had twice read the 51 Psalm the whole sun was set Whereby he doth conclude that the sun runs in the eighth part of an hour 7000 miles Though the Cardinals compute as well as his doctrine in matters Polemicall or of controversie doth very much fall short of truth yet his experiment in this gives some proof of the quicknesse of the sun's motion For the quicknesse of Christs motion how quickly did he come from heaven to earth when he did assume our nature and vailed himselfe under our humanity How quickly comes hee to the reliefe of his Church in distresse And is he not as quick as the lightning upon point of motion when he comes to enlighten the world with his truth 2 Indefatigably unweariedly How constant was Jesus Christ in doing the will of his Father and to finish the work that he sent him about How doth he professe that it was his meat to do it Never was there any hungry man labouring so constantly for or delighting in his appointed food as Jesus Christ did constantly in doing the will of his Father 6. It 's obedience to the Command of God There is an obedientiall power whereby the firmamentary Sun standeth at Gods appointment that made it to stand still in Joshuah's time and to run back upon the diall of Ahaz for a signe to Hezekiah And how was it with Jesus Christ what an obedientiall yeilding was there of himselfe to the will of his Father He declares unto all that he came upon this errand that he might fulfill his Fathers will and finish the work that he had sent him to do and that he did do all things that pleased him alwayes When he findeth it in the volume of the book to be written of him that he should do his will Psal 40.7 8. How doth his heart eccho Lo I come I delight to do thy will O my God yea thy Law is within my heart And when he was to compleat the great work of our Redemption by his agony his bloody sweat and finall passion How doth he discover a will melted into the will of his Father when resigningly he gives up himselfe in the midst of all that soul-anguish that was upon him which extorted Father if it bee possible let this cup passe from me Yet mark how willingly he doth surrender up himself to his Father Yet not my will but thine by done So that in these six respects the firmamentary Sun is a lively embleme of that super-celestiall Sun Jesus Christ viz. both in regard of 1 Beauty and excellency 2 Seat and influences 3 Magnitude or greatness 4 Form and one-nesse 5 Motion and 6 Obedience No wonder therefore that this name is accommodated to him in Scripture And yet to make it out a little fuller Do but consider with me the next thing that we are to speak to for the clearing of the first point viz. 2 That Christ is the same to believers as the Sun is to the world Thence it is that he is held forth to us by this notion in this place and the places fore-cited that I will not trouble you with the repetition of Onely for the demonstration of it consider with me what benefit the world receiveth by the Sun the like shall we find believers to receive from Christ Now among other things that the world receiveth from the firmamentary sun I shall insist on these six viz. 1 Light 2 Life 3 Heat 4 Fruitfulnesse 5 Comfort 6 Purity All which Saints receive from Jesus Christ and therefore to every individuall the promise may be repeated Thy Sun shall no-more go down 1. The firmamentary Sun is very operative to produce light and dispell darknesse It is seated as it were in the center navell or heart of heaven that it might impart its light to the stars that are above and below it yea and unto all the earth besides How quickly doth it in his approaches near unto our Horizon much more at his coming up into it drive out darknesse out of the air and ferret it out of our houses It is the Steward of light Now as aëriall light flowes from the sun so all spirituall light flowes from Jesus Christ It is he that filleth 1 Gospel Ordinances with light