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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02032	The light of the world A sermon preached at Botterwike in Holland, neere Boston, in Lincolnshire. By Thomas Granger, preacher of Gods word there.	Granger, Thomas, b. 1578.	1616 (1616)	STC 12179; ESTC S103386	23,817	39

THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD A Sermon preached at Botterwike in Holland neere Boston in Lincolnshire By THOMAS GRANGER Preacher of Gods word there IOHN 95. As long as I am in the World I am the light of the World LONDON Printed by T. S. for Thomas Pauier and are to be sold at his shop in Yuie lane 1616. TO THE RIGHT VVorshipfull Mr. THOMAS LEVENTHORPE Esquire Sonne and heyre to the renowned Knight Sir IOHN LEVENTHORPE T. G. wisheth all happinesse and eternall blessednesse RIGHT Worshipfull The speciall affection that I beare to that louely Oliue wherof you are a special branch and the duty wherein I euer remaine obliged vnto it hauing heretofore receiued pleasant nutriture from thence and delightfull refreshing in the shade thereof haue often solicited me by one meanes or other to shew and testifie my thankefull minde to the same and to your selfe in particuler Siluer and gold haue I none nor any costly present but such as I haue freely receiued I freely offer vnto you The water is a common element yet when one Synaeta hauing nothing to offer to Artaxerxes passing by he tooke water out of the riuer Cyrus with both his hands and offered it to the king who accepted it as a speciall gift as Aelianus recordeth first because water is the best element Secondly because it was taken out of Cyrus So the Ayre the Light are common and I not hauing any gift to present you withall am glad to offer the Light vnto you which I hope shal finde special acceptance with you First because that of many lights this is the best light giuing light to all other lights of the naturall soule without which they are vtter darkenesse euen as the lesser lights of the firmament are but darke and dead bodies without the light and vitall influence of the Sun Secondly because this light ariseth and shineth out of another world then is either the Macrocosme or Microcosme to wit the spirituall world which is the word and Church of God But though this light be common because it is offered to all and shineth vnto all yet it is receiued of few because darke earthy bodies cannot receiue the light in which respect it becommeth a proper and speciall light and I make no doubt but that you are one of those few who delight in this light and therefore I trust will also accept this as a speciall gift which is pretious and speciall in it selfe though it be not specially but vulgarly set forth by me to whom the exhibiting and shewing thereof to the world is also committed The Lord protect and conduct you in the way euerlasting From Botterwike in Holland neere Boston in Lincon 1616. Your worships to command euer in the Lord THOMAS GRANGER THE LIGHT OF THE VVORLD IOHN 8. 12. Then spake IESVS againe to them saying I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walke in darknesse but shall haue the light of life THESE words containe a Sermon of our Sauiour Christ preached to the Iewes in the Temple Wherein two things are principally to be considered the Preface and the principall Scope The Preface is in the former words Then spake Iesus to them c. Wherein consider these circumstances First The person speaking Iesus spake his speaking is amplified by a note of sedulitie and oftennesse in speaking Spake againe Secondly The persons to whom he spake to them viz. the people of the Iewes flocking together about him not to the Pharisies Thirdly The time when then that is either after this time when the Pharises had tempted him vpon occasion of a woman taken in adulterie or else in the great and last day of the feast of Tabernacles as some thinke but whether it mattereth not much Whereas it is said that he spake to them againe hence we obserue and learne that Christ was most diligent laborious and painefull in his calling being in all things answerable to the commandement and will of his father He was often weary hungry thirstie with trauailing and preaching neither fainting nor failing therein through want of earthly reward as the maner of earthly men is nor discouraged therefrom with the feare of his enemies In the Chapter aforegoing the Iewes seeking to kill him he trauailed into Galilee and from thence about the middle of the Feast to Ierusalem againe where he taught continually in the Temple till the end of the last day of the Feast then he went into the mount Oliuet to rest and refresh himselfe and earely in the morning he came againe into the Temple to preach By which History and many other places it is apparent that Christ was continually employed in the actions of his calling Hereupon it is that Iohn saith Cap. 21. 25. If all things were written that Iesus spake and did I suppose the world could hardly containe the bookes that should be written of him which words he vttered out of the consideration and reuiew of Christs great and daylie pains in teaching preaching working miracles which he thought could not more fitly be expressed than by such an hyperbolicall kinde of speaking Likewise Ioh. 4 34. Christ was wearied with trauaile and thirstie hauing neither drunke nor eaten any thing since the morning it being now mid-day therefore his Disciples prayed him to eate but he answered I haue meate to eate that yee know not of My meate is that I may doe the will of him that sent mee and finish his worke As if he had said though meate be now necessarie for me I hauing fasted thus long yet is the doing of my fathers wil and finishing of his worke more necessarie therefore occasion of preaching by the comming of the Samaritans at this instant being offered I must forget bodily hunger I must not now regard bodily meate but I must redeeme the present occasion with neglect of my body and bodily sustenance Likewise Math. 26. 55. I sate dayly teaching in the Temple among you c. Hereby the Ministers of Christ are taught by his example to be laborious and painfull in the faithfull discharge of their office in the distruction of the kingdome of sinne and Satan and in gathering and building vp the Church and kingdome of Christ seeing that he hath sent them in like manner as his father sent him as himselfe saith In Ioh. 4. 35. Christ exhorteth his Disciples to performe the duties of faithfull labourers in the Lords haruest to be carefull in reaping his fruits his argument is drawn from the comparison of earthly haruest-labour Say yee not there are yet foure months and then commeth the haruest c. As if he should say you are so carefull for this earthly haruest that you count the moneths the weekes and dayes till haruest come so hungarly doe you looke for it and painefully labour in it but the Lords haruest for which you ought to be as careful is euen now at hand for yee may see the regions already white to the haruest