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A59622	The rising sun, or, The sun of righteousnesse shining upon the sons of unrighteousnesse a theological sun-dyal wherein is to be seen the rising, motion, influence and manifold operations of Christ upon the soul ... as also the description of the true believer ... as also the highest degrees and full growth and grace are here delineated ... / by John Sheffeild [sic]	Sheffield, John, fl. 1643-1647.	1654 (1654)	Wing S3064; ESTC R30141	166,752	332

is the root bears the branch not the branch the root our faith love holiness is not the ro●t but branches of the love of God the branch is broken the root remains We are changed and so sometimes we cannot do as at other times we think God is changed he is not Children in a Boat think the houses and trees remove it is the boat not the trees We measure Gods love to us by ours to him and so perplex all But the Scripture puts it out of doubt our unbelief makes not void Gods faithfulnesse if we be unfaithful and deny him he yet abideth faithful and cannot deny himselfe if we forget we are children he cannot forget to be a father He may repent it may be that he gave Saul a Kingdome or Jeroboam ten Tribes never repents of grace given because this flowes from unchanged fatherly love the other from common providence 3. Then are the promises firm which Christ hath made He is the Amen Rev. 3. 14. And all his Promises are yea and Amen As the Suns motion is certain varyeth not a minute hence Eclipses can be so long foretold by Artists and every Countryman can tel you where the Sun wil be and of what length the daies seven years hence If ever therefore there was a promise to a believer to justifie the ungodly to count faith for righteousnesse it wil as wel reach us as Abraham as the Apostle reasons The Sun moves constantly with in his Tropicks and comes sooner or later to all such climates as are within his bounds Christ doth as certainly meet those that wait for him in his way 4. Terror to wicked ones If Christ his love and promises firm then his threats his truth justice jealousie hatred of sin is as much as ever If he ever hated an ungodly person he loves not thee He shews mercy to thousands but by no means clears th● guilty Exod. 34 7. His garments are white as wool but his eyes red as flames of fire and he hath a sharp two edged sword in his mouth Woe to them who walk in the way of Cain Balaam or Corah their damnation slumbers not though their conscience slumber The Sun never goes an inch beyond his Tropick but returns nor wil Christ the Son of peace ever come to such as are out of the way of peace but return back again CHAP. IX Communicativenesse a Communicable Attribute HAving spoken of the Incommunicable Attributes I shal descend to some communicable ones and that this discourse may not swel beyond intention I shall the more contract my self I might name many Attributes of this sort as Communicativenesse Greatnesse Glory c. of which other creatures also do participate yet are they most eminent in the Sun I shall speake of communicativenesse under this head and refer the rest to the next Communicativenesse is an excellent Attribute in the Sun The Moon Stars Ayre Seas earth are all communicative of their several benefits to man But the Sun most of all and they enabled by the Sun It buries not his light shuts not up his influence shines not to it self is as free and liberal to the poor as rich to the beggar as to the King The Lord hath divided it and the stars saith Moses to all nations under the whole heaven They under the Poles have their share as wel as they under the Line So hath Christ received of the Father gifts to be communicated unto men of his fulnesse all receive his merits are of largest extent his Gospel to be preached to all nations and to every creature 1 Then is here provision for the poorest Christian who hath nothing to buy with the Sun sels not but gives his light freely it is Gods light it is the poore mans friend his candle fuel raiment Diogen●s hath as good a propriety in ●t as Alexander Christ is the poor mans friend Advocate Physician Saviour and Master of that Corporation The●e are his Guests Disciples Bride He entertains none of other qualitie but those in poverty Come he that hath no bread nor m●ny He cals all thirsty to come drink freely an● without price We love to match into Estates great Families marry with Nobility Beauty Preferments Christ loves to bestow himself on poore undone helplesse persons he matcheth with misery beggery infamy base b●irth humility deformity Ahasuerus thought the Crown better s●t on Esthers head then Vashtyes or al● the Pri●cely Ladies of the Court. And Christ his grace and favour is confer'd stil on the humble soul the highest Crown was set on the lowest handmaid Poor Mary became Deipara she was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All be-graced highly honoured and shee got the name from the first and greatest of women as her Son from the highest and first of men she became Chavah the only mother of the Living and which is stranger her Son the Adam and Parent of the world 2. Then is Christs not a scant but plenteous Redemption not from one but infinite Transgressions not of one or a few but of infinite persons He sheweth mercy to thousands his Sealed Book containes an innumerable company of Angels and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 General Assembly and Church of the first born whose names are written in Heaven contains so many Myriades as no man can number of all Kindreds Nations Tongues and people They are not a few but a world who are redeemed The whole world of the Elect severed from the world of the Ungodly 3. Then there is just ground for our hopes prayers endeavours for the calling of the Gentiles who at present sit in darkness and live without God in the world without Covenant Promise and Gospel And for the Jewes also who shall be grafted in again if they abide not still in unbelief who are also at present without God and King and Teraphim and Prophet and Priest and hope too as much as the uncalled Gentiles but there are promises for both The ends of the earth are the Fathers Advowson and the Son is ordained by him to be the Occumenical Bishop of the habitable world He shall sprinkle many Nations inherit all Lands rule from Sea to Sea to the utmost Indies The Sun moves sometimes North sometimes South is sometimes in the East and sometimes in the West but ere the year goes about and ends hath viewed all Climes so shall the Gospel be preached to all Nations before the end of the World The Church is as the Sea which if it lose in one place gets as much in another The Gospel is as the Sun which when it goes from one place goes to another 4. Is Christ so communicative then what an encouragement is this to poor souls to go to Christ 1. For his freeness He keeps open house to all comers as Titu● sent none away sad he none empty that come to him upbraiding none rejecting none giving liberally forgiving universally

only cast no shadow behind thee in the face of the Sun the Dyals do not in the face of Christ how grosse is it Be full of eyes within without before behind as those living Creatures Revel 4. 6. or those living wheels Ezek. 1. 18. Canst thou the secret sympathy behold Betwixt the bright Sun and the Marigold And not consider that we must no less Follow in life the Sun of Righteousness Let the morning Sun find thee praying with Jacob Gen 32 24. The noon Sun see thee working and the evening Sun see thee meditating with Isaak Gen 24. 63. Let not the Sun when risen see thee sleeping unrisen Sun all day moving behold thee all day standing still and Sunne setting leave thy Lust and Passion not set CHAP. V. The Suns Omnipresence a shadow of Christ. NExt to Christ his Omniscience consider his Omnipresence the ground and cause of that Omniscience In both which respects God may be said to have set his Tabernacle in the Sun which shadowes out both Christs Humanity also is called the Tent or Tabernacle of the Divinity The Sun locally in Heaven is virtually in earth his light heat influence every where overspreading the face of the Sea and Land penetrating the depths of both to the bottom of the sea and to those subterraneous minerals in the bosom and secret chambers of the earth Christ when ascending heaven left his promise as Elijah his mantle with his Disciples Lo I am with you alway to the end of the world And where ever two or three are gathered together in my name I am in the midst of them This may be a sensible Rebuke to the blind Atheists who are not to be dealt with by Scripture or reason who having pu● out both their own eyes of reason and conscience would pull out Gods also of Omniscience and Omnipresence and having shut out the sense of a Deity out of their own thoughts would dispute the Essence of God out of the world If thou art not a man of Conscience art thou of Reason If not of Reason art thou of Sense Then I shall convince thee Wilt thou believe thy own senses Darest thou trust thine own eyes open them thou seest the light of the Sun or shut them if thou wilt thou feelest the heat of the Sun which though in Heaven is not far from thee but ever round about thee Doth its light scatter all clouds and shall any cloud or darkness cover thee Doth its influence reach the subterraneous cavernes and shall any corner hide thee from the presence of God This great Apostle as some have called it hath preached Heathens out of Atheisme and shall it not Christians Every beam of the Suns visible eye writes upon the heart of a rational man The invisible eye and presence of God is here Among all those abominations represented to Ezekiel the last and most hideous was that posture of faces towards the Sun and backs towards the Temple Solem exosculari Deum exoculare At the same time to see the Sun seeth us and to say the Lord seeth us not but hath forsaken the earth is such brutish reasoning as Heathens have no such Logick Hell hath no such bad Divinity The Heathen by their Logick could see in lumine Numen in the Suns light another Invisible Sun of greater light And Hell it self is not so full of darkness but whatsoever other impieties there remaine there is no room for Atheism Nullus in Inferno est Atheos ante fuit How should this consideration of Christs continual presence both awe and cheer the gracious soul provoking it to faith patience fortitude diligence in the work of God Christ is ever present 1. As an Observer He remembred every of the seven Churches of this in those seven Epistles I know thy works c. 2. As an Assister Lo I am with you alwayes to the end of the world 3. As a strong supporter Jer. 1. 18. They shall fight against the● but shall not prevail for I am with thee 4. As a bountiful Rewarder Therefore as all these Epistles begin with novi opera I know thy works they end in vincenti dabo To him that overcometh will I give c. to represent to you continually Christ present as an Observer from the first as a rich rewarder at the last Hence let Godly and wicked both learn to reason as godly Jacob and wicked Laban See if no man be present yet God is ever present Call thy dwelling Mizpah for wheresoever thou art God hath his Watch Tower neer thee CHAP. VI. The fourth Incommunicable Attribute Omni-influence AFter the Omniscience and Omnipresence of Christ already touched let us come to consider that Admirable and Incommunicable Attribute of Omni-influence wherewith the upper and neather Sun are adorned and enriched The Sun hath his residence in heaven only but his Influence is diffused into all the heavenly bodies and to all these Sublunary Creatures air earth water and all the hoste of them yea to those subterraneous Mettals and Minerals hid from the Vultures eye We have the influence and benefit of the Sun in every breath of air bit of bread in each dish of flesh fish fowle yea in each herb used for food or Physick The Sun hath an universal influence upon the Creature in his Generation production vegetation maturation c. So Christ upon the new Creature and upon all his actions and motions Sol homo generat hominem The Sunne and man beget a man the Sun and seed bring forth corn the Sun and showrs bring on Harvest But the Sun is one in every thing So Christ his influence is All in all In works of Nature nothing was made without him at first Joh. 1. 3. In works of Grace nothing is or can be done without him John 15. 3. Without me yee can do nothing Christ in the instruction gives saving knowledge Christ in the conviction worketh repentance Christ and the Promise work faith Christ and the Consolation works peace Accedat Christus ad Elementum fiet Sacramentum Christ and the Element make a Sacrament Christ in the Sacrament makes a rare Feast The Sun hath a various and marvellous influence but our Sun far more The Suns influence of light dispels darkness out of the air Christ out of the soul. The Suns influence of heat takes off the cold from the Creature brings in a reviving warmth but what like the cheering of Christ his love it takes off deadness restores the new Creature Thy favour is better then life sweeter then wine The Suns attractive influence draweth up grosse earthy and watry vapours and converteth them into air Christ in conversion is so attractive that hee drawes earth up to Heaven and turnes Corruption into Grace The Suns dissolving influence again sends downe those Vapors when purged and prepared in rich and fruitful showres and Christ those hearts full of grace and Peace he had before attracted turning again air