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B03557 The sacred diary: Or, select meditations for every part of the day, and the employments thereof: With directions to persons of all ranks, for the holy spending every ordinary day of the Week. Propounded as means to facilitate a pious life, and for the spiritual improvement of every Christian. Gearing, William. 1679 (1679) Wing G438; ESTC R177551 109,549 305

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sweetly refreshed by the manifestation of Christ as a glorious Day-spring and a most blessed Sun of Righteousness arising with healing in his Wings whereby they saw the way of Peace and the means of Reconciliation with God and everlasting Salvation by the Remission of their Sins in the Blood of Christ 5. Consider that the Day-spring or Sun rising is a Cause of Health The Night is cold and moist and for want of heat to purge the Air is the Cause of many thick Fogs and Vapours but the Sun arising cleanseth the Air and overcometh those foggy Vapours So consider what is said of Christ that he being the Sun of Righteousness should arise with healing in his Wings dispelling those unwholsom Vapours which the Devil the Prince of Darkness had raised to poison the Souls of Men and Women This Sun of Righteousness did by the Sovereign Balm of his most precious Blood cure the Wounds of Guiltiness which were upon their Consciences and by the precious Sun-beams of his Spirit did heal them of those Corruptions and Soul-sicknesses giving them Spiritual Health even the Spirit of Love and Power and of a sound Mind 6. The Day-spring or Sun-rising calleth Men out of their Beds and rouzeth them from their Sleep so Christ by his manifestation unto the World doth call Men from sleeping in Sin to awake unto Repentance unto Righteousness This St. Paul sheweth plainly Acts 17.30 c. The times of this Ignorance God winked at but now commandeth all Men every where to repent That Night-time which was before the Day-spring and coming of Christ God winked at but now commandeth all Men every where to repent It was the time of Sleep and God suffered the World to lie sleeping and snorting in Sin and Wickedness he winked at them and awaked them not but now he calleth upon to awake that is to repent now it is Day the Night is past yea saith he he commandeth all men every where The Lord sent his Messengers from Nation to Nation from City to City to awake the World at the Day-spring and at the rising of the Sun of Righteousness 7. The Day-spring or Sun-rising giveth Men light and sheweth them both how to walk and work He is that Light which enlightneth every one that cometh into the World John 12.35 36. Then Jesus said unto them Yet a little while is the Light with you walk while ye have the Light lest darkness come upon you for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth While ye have the Light believe in the Light that you may be Children of the Light Christ's coming sheweth the way wherein we must go if we will be saved The World for want of this Light groped and lost the way to true Happiness 8. The Day-spring and Sun-rising doth cause those things that are harmful to hide themselves The wild ravening Beasts that prey upon others use to get to their Caves and Coverts at the Sun-rising shunning the light Thieves and Murtherers which in the Night use to break through and steal do retire themselves and refrain at the rising of the Sun So at the coming of Christ Herod and his company were troubled and all Jerusalem with him The Scribes and Pharisees were troubled and the Devil himself especially that Prince of Darkness and that great Worker of the works of darkness was troubled and cried out Art thou come to Torment us before the time 9. The Day-spring or Sun-rising is welcome to those who are well busied and diligently walk in an honest Course of Life So the coming of Christ as a Day-spring and Sun of Righteousness was very welcome to those that walked uprightly before the Lord it was the time which they had long looked for more than they that watch for the Morning Therefore their Eyes were upon this Day-spring So Zechary Elizabeth Joseph Simeon Anna the Godly Shepherds and the rest flocked about our Saviour like a company in the dark about a Torch or Candle Yea the Wise Men of the East by a lesser light were brought to this great Light by the light of a little Star were conducted to Christ the great Light of the World John 8.12 I am saith he the Light of the World he that followeth me shall not walk in Darkness but shall have the light of Life II. Meditate how his second and glorious Coming shall be like the Day-spring or Sun-rising 1. Meditate on the brightness and glory of that Day which shall spring as it were out of Darkness What darkness possesseth the World at this Day in comparison of the Light of that great and glorious Day How great and gross is the Ignorance of Men in comparison of the knowledg which then shall be revealed How many things now lie hidden like things covered in Darkness How many things concerning the Mystery of Christ are yet unknown and many things imperfectly known How many reasons of things that fall out in the World are now hidden from Men How many secrets are there in the ways of God's Providence and his dealings with the World and with his Church which in this Night-time of blindness and darkness we cannot see Yea how little do we see of the Excellency of Christ of the beauty of Heavenly Things and of the Glory of his Kingdom These are dark Times and little of these things is discovered Yea how little do Men see into the Vanity Vileness of Earthly things Who seeth the exceeding sinfulness of Sin and odiousness of it How many secret sins are now committed every hour which are hid in darkness These are Times of darkness which now we live in before the last coming of Christ 2. Consider That Christ's last coming like a Day-spring shall remove this darkness of the World and lay open things that were hidden and dispel all the dark Clouds that now hide the Light from us It shall remove the Ignorance of heavenly things from the minds of Men Christ himself shall be the Light of that Day Then the things which are now imperfectly shall then be perfectly known then shall the Saints put away childish things imperfect beginnings of Heavenly Knowledg and shall have the understandings of Men in them a perfection of Light not seeing through a Glass darkly but Face to Face How clearly shall the light of that Day shew unto the Saints the Beauty and Glory of Christ and represent him to his Church as a most glorious Bridegroom Consider how that Day shall declare the equity of all the Lord's proceedings in dealing with his Creatures How shall it cause all doubting and objections against it to vanish as a Mist How shall it lay open the folly and vanity of Men in cleaving to the things of this World and in following their Lusts How evidently shall it make it appear that the Godly have chosen the better part that they were truly wise that preferred the Gospel of Christ the Glory of Christ yea the Reproach of Christ above the pleasures of Sin or