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The meteors A sermon preached at a visitation. By Michael VVigmore, Rector of Thorseway in Lincolneshire, and sometimes Fellow of Oriel Colledge in Oxford
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Wigmore, Michael, 1588 or 9-1664?
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poore all desire it alike Light it displaieth it selfe to all creatures and it is transfused in an instant It pierceth every transparent body and is not defiled with any uncleannesse It is the conduit of all heavenly vertues and is the quickner of all that is It actuateth all colours It is the mother of all beauties It giveth life to all the ornaments to all the delights that the world affords us The Light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the Eccles 11. 7. eyes to looke upon the Sunne And si dulce est lumen hoc mundi quanto erit dulcius lumen gloriae Si delectabile est videre solem creatum quanto erit delectabilius solem videre increatum creatique solis Creatorem I am the light of the world saith our Saviour Ioh 8 12. And therefore it was as some observe that Christ was borne when the dayes were at shortest ut diminuto noctis curriculo defectionem sentiant opera tenebrarum From this comfortable nature of the light upon any occasion of ioy and deliverance to shew how beautifull are the feet of them that bring glad tidings of salvation wee decke it forth with her glory naming the time pro qualitate rei The Lepers in the second of Kings cap. 8. ver 9. in the Night that they found the Assyrians were fled wee doe not well say they one to another we doe not well to hold our peace this Day is a Day to bring glad tidings And that welcome Luc. 2. 11. Angell in the Gospell when he came to the Shepherds in the Night of the Nativity This Day saith hee in the City of David is borne a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. Then did the Night shine as the Day because the Sunne of Righteousnesse Psal 139. 12. was risen as there was darknesse at the houre of his Amos 8. 9. death for then the Sunne did set at the noone-tide And yet Christ here as Moses else where hath a vaile Light but a shadow to Christ Psal 104. 2. put over his face to whom the Light is but as a garment or as a curtaine drawne over his glory to bee a shadow of his essence and being If the Light bee Darknesse how great is that Darknesse But when Light and Lustre and Brightnesse and Glory and Majesty shall be but shadowes how great is the Brightnesse and the Lustre and the Light of the glory of that Majesty which dwelleth in the light that none can attaine unto 1 Tim 6. 16. It is reported concerning Noah that whilst the window of the Arke was shut he made use of some resplendent stone by whose raies the objects of the sight presented themselves to the organ of the eye However the conjecture be but curious yet true it is that Christ is that Stone which albeit the Mat. 21 42. builders refused is now become the head-stone of the corner at whose approach the light of the Moone became unto Ies 30. 26. us as the light of the Sunne salvation became the wals of Ies 60. 18. c. our Church and her gates the praise of God the Lord our everlasting light and the Sunne that shall never set Lux Deus illustris illuminans omnia aliae luces tanquam micae And thus farre of that Lux innata that true Light that Light Ioh 1. 9. 8. 11. 9. 5. 1 Ioh. 1. 5. of life that Light of the world in whom is no darknesse I am now come to my second chapter and to speake of that Lumen that Lux infusa whereby wee are enlightned 2 Part. The Light derived from Christ to his Ministers from above as the Starres doe borrow their light from the Part. 2. l. 6. c. 7. Sunne Zanchius in his worke De operibus Dei upon those words Gen. 1. Sint luminaria in expaâ—sione coelorum observes that luminare differt à luce sicut candela à luce quam habet and puts the nature of the Starres and the Light at as farre distance one from the other as the instrument that holds the light differs from the light that it sustaineth And as God is the light that dwelleth in you so you my brethren of the Clergy you are Luminaria the Instruments of light to shine in the Phil. 2. 15. middest of a crooked generation Thus he which is the light of the world Iohn 8. 12. hath appointed you to bee the light of the world Mat. 5. 14. and he which is the bright morning Starre Revel 22. 16. hath given you the morning starre as he hath received from the Father Revel 2. 28. to bee as that starre that Mat 2. 9. appeared in the East and that led to the place where the child lay Christ beholding from the heighth of his Sanctuary the condition of his Church here on earth how that after the dayes of his flesh they should be as sheepe having no Shepherd Mat. 9. 36. Eph. 4. 11. 12. he hath given some Apostles some Prophets some Evangelists and some to be Shepherds and Teachers to the gathering together of the Saints to the worke of the Ministration and to the building up of his body And as the Israelites when they came to Elim found there twelve Fountaines and seventy Num. 33. 9. Palme trees so the Apostles as twelve Fountaines have flowed over all the face of the earth and the seventy Disciples as seventy Palmetrees have flourished and spred over all the Luc. 10. 1. the world raysing up new seed in the Church by Commission from Christ Imposition of hands and Succession Apostolicall Acts 6. 6. 2 Tim. 1. 6. throughout all ages You my Brethren are brancht from these you are the 1 Cor. 4. 1. 1 Cor. 3. 9. Luc 12. 42. 1 Pet. 2. 9. 1 Tim 2 7. Gal 4. 17. Disposers of the secrets of God you are his Labourers and his Builders you are his wise and faithfull Stewards whom the Lord hath made Rulers over his houshold Yea you are his honourable Priesthood yea his Embassadors yea his Angels You even you are the Light of the world Et sic dicebat Christâ—â— suis vos estis lux mundi cum ipse solus esset vera lux as Beza in his notes upon the 2 Cor. 3 18. Aristotle tels us in his Ethicks that Bonum is Verum and Arist Eth. l 1. Lights distinguished Meteors divided Apparens and there are certaine Apparitions which for the semblance that they have with the Light doe seeme to be of the same nature These being proper to the Aire some there are in the higher region as are Cometa and Caprae Saltantes others in the middle as Tonitru and Fulgur and there are walking in the lower region Ignis Fatuus and Ignis Lambens Opposita iuxta se posita magis eluce scunt and therefore I le begin with these that those other in their order may appeare the clearer First of the Comete that prodigious
THE METEORS A SERMON PREACHED AT A VISITATION By MICHAEL VVIGMORE Rector of Thorseway in Lincolneshire and sometimes Fellow of Oriel Colledge in Oxford Let your Light so shine before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie your Father which is in heaven Mat. 5. 16. LONDON Printed by THOMAS HARPER for Nathaniel Butter and are to be sold at his shop at the Pyde Bull neere S. Austins Gate 1633. TO THE RIGHT Honourable THOMAS Lord Coventry Baron of Aylesborough Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England one of his Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell c. Right Honourable SVch is the Leprosie of Ingratitude that scarce Luke 17. one in ten comes backe to be thankfull and God seemes to give a checke to mans nature in placing Memory behind in the head as being an Embleme of our dulnesse in rendring the Offices of Gratitude I must and ever will acknowledge to Gods glory and your Honour that as I had my being from above so have I my bene esse from your bounty in so much that as Saint Paul to Philemon I owe unto you even mine Philem. 19. owne selfe With that Samaritan in the Gospell Luc. 17. 15. 16. I am at length come backe againe to worship and to present you with these false fires to make my Duty and Affection legible ut Dei ita est eorum qui Dei in terris Rex Platon vices obeunt pro sua immensitate beneficia largiri sed hominum gratitudinem ex eorum modulo aestimare Long hath mine heart burnt within me Psal 39. 3. with an earnest Quid retribuam In regard Psal 116. 12. of those gratious encouragements by your Honour conferd upon me Nor have I slept in the Land of forgetfulnesse but waited opportunity to vent my selfe and now I have borrowed so much strength of boldnesse as to lift up the eyes of Hope presuming to prefer these flashes to your view in the which as the bad-borrowers of these dayes I doe pay my great debts by small Pensions If this mine Adventure shall finde such admittance as to give the least life to my riper studies I shall not suffer my Temples to rest till I be delivered of a Psal 132. 4. stronger birth Coelum quietem sortitur in motu I shal ever account it my heaven upon earth to labour to shew forth my thankfulnes and to pray with a flaming heart that Gen. 49. 22. 26. the blessing of Ioseph light upon you Decem. 15. 1632. Your Honours humble Eleemosynarie MICHAEL WIGMORE Ad Lectorem CVm carpuntur vitia inde scandalum oritur ipse sibi scandali causa est qui fecit quod argui debet non ille qui arguit Bernard Epist 78. THE METEORS MAT. 5. 14. You are the Light of the World PRoems they are like Cypresse trees long but fruitlesse and as he 2 Macc. 2. 32. It is but a vaine thing to make a long Prologue and to be short in the story it selfe Then briefly to the matter we are to treat of As we finde in Naturall Philosophy Lucem Lumen and Illuminatum the Sunne the Treasurer of Light and Time the Light of the Starres derived from the Sunne and the Light of the Aire proceeding from them both So shee being the Handmaid to Divinity holds out the glasse to 1 Cor. 13. 12. 13. show us the shadow of that we shall know even as we are known First Christ to be that Sunne of Righteousnesse foretold unto Division Verse 2. V. 3. les 9. 1. us in the fourth of Malachy Secondly his Disciples to bee those Starres spoken of in the twelfth of Daniel And thirdly those people that walk in darknesse and that dwell in the Land of the shadow of death to be that Medium illuminatum looking for the light to shine upon them For the First as in the first of Genesis the Light was created I Part The light of Christ seene from the beginning before the Sunne so was Christ knowne in the dayes of Psal 18. 9. Old before the Sunne of Righteousnesse was risen before He appeared in our Horoscope before He bowed the Heavens and came downe to cloath himselfe in the flesh of Man His light was then like the Birth of the Morning The Prophets they beheld this Light that a Virgin should conceive Ies 71 14. and beare a Childe which should be Emanuel God with us The Gentiles they beheld this Light witnesse Zoroastes Mercurius Trismegistus the Sybils the Oracles of their owne gods and to make their ignorance inexcusable they had the Prophets of truth amongst them Iob knew that his Redeemer lived and Iob 19 25. Num. 24. 17. Balaam could prophecie unto Balaak that there should come a Starre of Iacob and rise a Scepter out of Israel The Patriarks they beheld this Light Abraham he saw this day and reioyced and was glad and that Grandsire of all mankinde was no sooner Iohn 8. 56. divested from his Robe of Innocencie But this Day-spring Luc. 1. 78. Gen. 3. 15. Ioh. 1 5. from on high did visit him With the seede of the Woman shall breake the Serpents head And thus the Light shined in the darkenesse For as the Israelites for their Convoy had a Cloud by Day and a Pillar by Night so till the time of the comming of Christ there was no Day without a Cloud no Night so dark but had some light in it God being known from the worlds first being by Visions and Oracles Revelations and Dreames Bulling Decad. 1 Ser. 1. Tradition of doctrine from hand to hand untill the dayes of his servant Moses who was in the seventh generation from Adam and yet the Pen-man of the worlds Historie for neere 2500. yeeres So that Adam and the Patriarks the Gentiles and the Prophets they had all a glimmering of this light they all foretold the comming of Christ as they were moved by the Holy Ghost they 2 Pet. 1 21. Mat 11. 13. Ezech. 4. 1. Keck Phys p 1. ex Virg Iob 36. 32. Galat. 4 4. The light manifested in Christs incarnation Psal 19. 5. 2 Cor. 3. 14. 15. Heb. 10. 10. Heb. 7. 12. Heb. 10. 1. all prophecied unto Iohn who was the Precursor that morning starre that was sent to beare witnesse of the Light And thus as Hierusalem upon a Brickbat or the Acts of the Romans on the Shield of Aeneas I have briefly set out unto you how God hid the Light in his Fist untill hee commanded it to breake forth untill the fulnesse of time was come Then came the Bridegroome out of his chamber rejoycing as a Gyant to runne his course The Law that was the vaile of the Gospell was taken away by the comming of Christ The Sacrifice offered yeere by yeere was abolished in His offering once for all The glory of the Priesthood was translated All the shadowes of good things to come they all vanish at his Lustre I am come