Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	darkness_n	light_n	shadow_n	7,372	5	9.4624	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25887	A great wonder in heaven, or, A lively picture of the militant church drawn by a divine pencill : Revel. 12, 1, 2 : discoursed on in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at Margarets, Westminster, on the last monethly fast-day, January 27, 1646/7 / by John Arrowsmith ...	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1647 (1647)	Wing A3776; ESTC R441	30,018	49

and the Sun agree 1 In point of Sovereignty The Sun is the Prince of Planets a body so glorious that all admire many adore it for a God because they see more Majesty in it then any thing else that can be seen Whence it is that the idolatrous Chaldeans as Bodin observes gave it the name of Baal a Lord whereas the Hebrews with whom were the Oracles of God call it Shemes which signifieth a servant for so it is to him that made it Christ tooke upon him the forme of a servant but is indeed the Lord of all And as God made the Sun to rule by day and to diversifie seasons of the year by its approches and recesses So hath the Father appointed Christ to be King of Saints and upon his various aspects depend the Churches Summer and Winter the souls Spring and Fall the seed-time of grace and harvest of glory 2 In point of singularity There is but one Sun in the firmament which made that great Conquerour say The heaveus could neither bear two Suns nor the earth two Alexanders Looke to Christs person it is but one although there be two natures in him When the light which was created the first day did as it were assume a star three dayes after that star and the light made but one Sun so when the Word who was God from all eternity assumed flesh in fulnesse of time the Word and flesh made but one Christ Looke to his office he is so a Mediatour as not to admit of any copartnership in the work To us there is but one God the Father of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and wee by him 1 Cor. 8. 6. One God and one Mediatour between God and man the man Christ Jesus 1 Tim. 2. 5. Is Christ divided saith Paul elswhere We may say is Jesus multiplyed No verily As but one Sun so but one Saviour None but Christ as the Martyr cryed None but Christ 3 In point of necessity When men would expresse the removall of somwhat absolutely necessary they use to say this were Solem è mundo tollere to take the Sun out of the World If that were removed how would all beauty vanish and as some think all motion cease The potters wheele say they could not turn upon earth if the Sun should not move in heaven So take Christ from a soul 't is impotent to all good Without me ye can doe nothing John 15. 5. Were it not for the Sun it would be perpetuall night in the world notwithstanding all the torches that could be lighted yea notwithstanding all the light of the moon and stars It is neither the torch-light of naturall parts and creature-comforts nor the star-light of civill honesty and common gifts nor the moon-light of temporary faith and formall profession that can make it day in the soul till the Sun of righteousnesse arise and shine there Once indeed there was a time when fruits were produced without a Sun when God to prevent the idolizing of this creature as the only cause of all fertility enabled the earth to bring forth on the third day whereas the Sun was not made till the fourth But never was there any the least moment of time since the fall wherein man could bring forth fruit to God without the cooperation of Christ 〈◊〉 that hath not the Son hath not life 1 Iohn 5. 12. Neither can any vitall action be performed but by his special grace 4 In point of purity Other creatures admit of some defiling mixtures the sun doth not It looks upon filth but contracts none Christ is a lambe without blemish and without spot Such as cast aspersions upon him in the dayes of his flesh calling him glutton wine-bibber and friend of Publicans and sinners did but act the mad mans part throwing dirt at the Sun which none could possibly fasten upon He came indeed into a sinfull world but as a Physitian among his sick patients to cure them without taking the sicknesse of them being antidoted by his Divinity against all infection He hath an hand even in sinfull acts as they are acts for in him we move but not in the sinfulnesse of them shines into the noysome dunghils of our hearts with beams of grace yet continues most pure He was borne of a sinner lived and conversed with sinners dyed with and for sinners yea as a sinner yet had not in himselfe the least sin of his own to answer for 5 In point of sufficiencie There is in the Son a fulnesse of created glory All the light that had been disperst throughout the great fabrick of the new-born world for the first three dayes was gathered together on the fourth into that one body So it pleased the Father that all fulnesse should dwell in Christ And the seuerall graces that shined in the Patriarks Fathers and Prophets of old under the Law were all to be 〈◊〉 once in him The innocence of Abel perseverance of Noah obedience of Abraham devotion of 〈◊〉 chastity of Ioseph patience of Iob meeknesse of Moses courage of Ioshua zeale of David and whatsoever any of them excelled in was an ingredient 〈◊〉 that fulnesse of grace and truth which was found in Christ Quae divisabeatos efficiunt conjunctatenet Each of them had the fulnesse of a star he the sufficiencie of a Sun that filled them all and had a fulnesse beyond them all 6 In point of efficiency The efficacy of the Sun appears in imparting three things Light Heat and Influence Each whereof is so qualified as to resemble the grace of Christ in sundry particulars First The Sun imparts light a discovering guiding cheering growing light 1 Discovering what was hid from our sight before But for it we should neither see the Sun it selfe nor any thing else in heaven or earth Without irradiati●● from Christ men would for ever continue igno●● of the only true God and of their Redeemer we should never know either our sins or our duties our dangers or our priviledges but for Christ With him only is the fountain of life and in his light we see light 2 Guiding Luke 1. 78 79. The day-spring from in high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in darknesse and the shadow of death and to guide our feet into the way of peace The dim light of nature in common people shines a little but is not strong enough to guide like that of a gloworm or rotten stick The light of worldly wisdome and policie in men of great parts but prophane spirits shines more strongly but misguides like the meteor which Philosophers call Ignis fatuus we the Lanternman There is a third kind of light that shines strongly and guides too but the head only not the feet I mean that of hypocrites who contemplate things of God but reduce not their brain knowledge to practice Yea a fourth that guides both