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Sion shining in gospel-glory, or, The churches advancement and saints engagement in gospel-times with some hints of thankfulnesse for Englands deliverance from the Popish Plot of the powder treason : being the summe of a sermon preached at St Michaels in Cornhill, London, upon the 5th of Novemb. 1651 / by T.W.
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forth the hand of Faith and put them upon your naked souls so Christ will embrace you as his Brethren God will embosome you as his children the Angels of Heaven will at length with shouting entertain you in the mansions of Eternity as Heirs of Glory 2. Deck your selves with the Pearls of Heaven See Gods Cabinet is unlockt for you Get your Hearts furnisht with sanctifying Graces the souls Jewels God hath given you the Key of Heaven Prayer and the wings of Faith and Love to mount up thither Away then and fetch thence daily what precious Ornaments soever you want to render your souls beautifull and amiable in the eyes of your Beloved Put on these Ornaments daily and wear them continually They 'l be the brighter for the wearing So at length you shall put off some of your Ornaments of grace and put on ever-shining Robes of Glory 3. Vnmask your smiling faces and send forth your Rays of joy For God smiles and shines upon you Vnlock your joyfull Hearts and pour forth your souls in praises for God hath unlock't the Ark of his Covenant and unfolded the Riches of his Grace for your eternall Good The Lord himself rejoyces over you and cals upon you to rejoyce in the Lord Psa 33.1 Phil. 4.4 Psa 32.11 Serve the Lord with Joyfullnesse and Gladnesse of heart for his abundant Goodnesse and Love to you in the Lord Jesus Christ Burnish your Christian Profession and adorn the Gospel with Joyfulnes Reflect the beams of Gods Love with Rays of spirituall Joy With Joy draw Waters of life out of the Wells of salvation With Joy walk on in the Paths of Righteousnesse untill you shall come to Sion with singing Halelujah's and everlasting Joys upon your heads Object But here the Saints of God themselves may object Rejoice should we rejoice when our sinnes cry should we rejoice when Syon weeps Can we ought we to rejoice when our sins and the abominations of the Land are daily multiply'd and the wrath of God provok'd against us When the wayes of Syon mourn and the gates of Jerusalem are desolate does not God rather call to mourning and weeping and lamentation Answ I answer 'T is true these things ought to be taken to heart with hearty grief and lamentation And oh that we could pour out our hearts in abundant sorrowes for these Abominations and in melting Compassions over the bleeding Miseries of Gods people O that our Heads were Waters and our Eyes Fountains of Tears that we might weep day and night for the slain of the People of the Lord and the Abominations that are be found in the City of our God These things are a Lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation But yet withall consider Note 1 1. These Clouds will not obscure your Clearnesse These sorrowes are consistent with your joyes Sensuall joy and grief mutually expell one another but spirituall joy and grief as loving twins bred in the same womb though successively born live together in the same sanctified soul Yea the more your Hearts greve for sinne the more will your souls rejoice in the God of your salvation 2. These mourning Blacks will beautifie your shining brightnesse This spirituall sorrow will encrease the lustre of your Evangelicall joy These showers of grief will beautifie your beams of joy your sorrowfull sighs will encrease the beauty of your joyfull smiles Sad Tears dropping from such smiling Eyes are such Pearls as God will treasure them up every one in his bottle Sweet Smiles shining through a shower of Tears are such sparkles as will ascend to Heaven and be crown'd with Acceptance 3. There 's light of joy sown in the darknesse of these sorrowes Psal 97.11 The blessing of God crowns the Heads and the comforts of God shall fill the Hearts of such mourners in Sion Mat. 5.4 The pretious seed of spirituall sorrowes will bring a plenteous Harvest of eternal joys Psal 126.5 6. Who mix therefore their mirth with mourning shall have their sorrowes concluded with everlasting glorious joyes Let 's close these Considerations with these Corollaries Coroll 1 1. Weep your Beams Dart forth streaming beams of joy and pour out beaming streams of grief Rejoice with trembling Psal 2.11 Sweeten your mourning with mirth and season your mirth with mourning The Base of Godly Sorrow join'd in Consort with the Treble of Spirituall Gladnesse makes the best Melody in the ears of God 2. Wash your Smiles in Tears and beautifie your Mirth with Mourning the Beauty of your Beauty Bathe your shining Souls in Sorrowes and they 'l shine the brighter The choicest Beauty consists of a pure whitenesse with some mixture of a clear ruddinesse being actuated with a sparkling livelinesse the soul of Beauty so a serene and smiling soul with a bleeding heart enliven'd by the sanctifying Spirit of grace make up the most perfect Beauty in the eyes of God Learn then so to temper your joy with sorrow that both may be more acceptable unto God 3. Sowe your Seed of Sorrowes that you may reap your Harvest of Joyes Sowe your Seed in the Night and you shall reap your Fruit in the Morning Fill Gods bottle with Tears and hee 'l give you for every drop a Pearl Let your Heart bleed for your grievous sins and God will at length crown your soul with glorious joyes Weep for Jerusalem and you shall sing in Syon Mourn for the sorrows of the Saints and you shall rejoice for joy with them Lay a deep foundation in sorrow for your sins and God will crown your Building of Grace with the Top-stone of Glory Thus far we have considered the words in reference to the Glorious Priviledges of the Gospel of Christ wherewith God hath crown'd his Church and Saints now let 's apply them to you that are the children of the Church of the society of the Saints in reference to the glorious Deliverance that the great God hath wrought for his English Sion from the Popish Plot of the Powder-Treason a mercy to be celebrated this day with Praises and to be commemorated throughout all generations Behold O ye Saints the Lord of hosts hath brought salvation this day to Sion Rejoyce and be glad Arise shine O let the high praises of the most high God be this day in your hearts and mouths Take a large prospect of the Lords mercies and then lift up your voices in joyfull acclamations of Hallelujah And that you may rightly celebrate the glorious solemnities of the great King Duty 1 1. Take your Lamps in your hands and view that Den of darknesse wherein the hellish Monster that would have devour'd Gods holy Ones was almost hatcht A dark Vault there was under the Parliament House where this deadly Monster brooded by Popish Policy should have been brought forth had it not been stopt and stifled in the birth through Divine mercy by the hand of the All-knowing and All-powerfull God This was a work of darknesse in a place of darknesse the contrivance of the
SION SHINING IN Gospel-Glory OR The Churches Advancement and Saints Engagement in Gospel-times With some Hints of Thankefullnesse for Englands Deliverance from the Popish Plot of the Powder Treason Being the summe of a SERMON Preached at St Michaels in Cornhill London upon the 5th of Novemb. 1651. By T. W. PROV 4.18 The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more to the perfect day LONDON Printed by A. Miller and are to be Sold at the Sign of the Gun in Ivy-Lane 1652. To the early Bud of reall Piety Mrs E. H. encrease of Grace on Earth and a Crown of Glory in Heaven THe sweet Discoveries you were pleased to make unto me of a gracious work upon your Soul have exceedingly engag'd my Heart dearly to love you as a Childe of God highly to prize you as a Pearl in Grace and really to respect you as an Heir of Glory Truly I cannot but with dearest affections embrace the Darlings of Gods Bosom and heartily love them whom God sets his Heart upon and Christs sets as a Seal upon his own Heart The Impression of Gods Image upon the Soul renders it truly amiable and excellent to a spirituall eye Sweet Saint Me thinks when I see you I cannot but look upon you with admiration of the Riches of Gods Grace as one whom I shall once behold blest with the bosom-embraces of Jesus Christ and shining with an excellency of Glory far surpassing the glorious lustre of the purest Sun-beams in the Kingdom of Heaven Happy Soul seeing God has crown'd your tender years with Grace you have an assured Title to Eternity of Glory The Spouse of Christ is spotlesse all-fair all-glorious within her cloathing also is of wrought gold And he that looks upon you with a spirituall eye may he not behold you as a bright spark of the Spouses beauty yea is not all the Spouses beauty and excellency yours while Christ is yours Christ the Crown and glory of the Spouse and every Saint Having therefore methodiz'd a few sweet Meditations upon the shining excellency of the Church of God the smiling Glory of Christs Spouse I have presum'd to make them publick that I might present them as a poor Pledge of that dear Affection and cordiall Respect which my Heart bears unto you Read them therefore as written to and of your self as one through the Grace of Christ interessed in the Churches Glory What Christ speaks to his Spouse that apply to your own Soul as if you heard a voice from Heaven saying ARISE SHINE Blesse God with your whole Heart that He has invested you in the Churches Priviledges and labour to finde your self quickned thereby to all Christian Performances Take heed of Pride take heed of Self-love take heed of Hypocrisie These are the cankers that will eat out the very heart of your comforts and vex your soul with restlesse torments Humility Self-deniall and Sincerity will beautifie the Beauty of all your Excellencies Continue still to seek your God daily in secret Present Him with an humble and empty Heart and He will fill it with his saving Grace and sacred Comforts Secret Refreshings are marvellously sweet to the Soul Walk humbly with your God throughout the day as seeing Him that is invisible and your Soul shall be more fit to maintain a Holy Spirituall Evangelicall Communion with God in Duty whensoever he shall call you thereunto Labour to grow in Grace ' Be not asham'd of Holinesse Study in all things to please God The more Holy you are the more Happy you shall be the more of Heaven you shall have on Earth and the more Assurance that you shall at length change Earth for Heaven Now that the God of all Grace and Glory would enrich you with his saving Mercy refresh you with his sweetest Comforts and at length advance you to his glorious Kingdom is the summe of his hearty Prayers for you who is Yours in Christ Jesus T.W. To the Ingenuous Christian Reader SEe here a few Meditations which having been offered to the Ear are now presented to the Eye I have adventur'd them forth to try the Temper of the Times the genius of this Generation If they shall gain the Approbation of those who love the Lord 's Sion and the Lord Jesus Sions glorious Guardian-Angel in sincerity I shall finde I hope my Heart warm'd and enlarg'd into further Meditations of the same kinde and shall be also encouraged to a communication of them yea and many Meditations which are predecessours to these in birth may then also perhaps become their successours upon the worlds stage If these be condemn'd though I know them innocent to be burnt I shall never willingly make any more of my Children passe through the fire If my Thoughts please not others I shall be content to reserve them for the future to my self untill it shall please the Lord to enrich me with better Treasure However I have cast in this poor Mite into the Lords Treasury who graciously accepts of his servants not according to what they have not but according to what they have From him alone proceeds all good and to Him alone be ascrib'd all Glory by the Church of Christ throughout all Ages and to all Eternity Amen SION SHINING IN Gospel-Glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ISA. 60.1 Arise shine GLorious things are spoken of thee O City of God Many gracious promises and glorious priviledges make Sion the glory of the world and Jerusalem the praise of the whole earth The sweet Spouse of the great King is presented to us by this Evangelicall Prophet in her rich Attire and excellent Ornaments for Beauty and Glory She that lay polluted with bloud and sullied with dust being washt in bloud and sanctified through grace is prepared for the bosome of her glorious Redeemer Know ye not O beloved the beauty of her Grace the excellency of her Glory Arise be enlightned come and see This Prophet opens unto you her well-furnisht Chamber and her presents you with the golden Key of her costly Closet Here behold 1. The glorious Lamp of the Gospel put into the hand of the Church who is commanded to hold it forth that it may pour out its light to the world v. 1. 3. 2. The mighty concourse out of many Nations of Sions converts to this glorious Light and the brightnesse of this burning Lamp v. 4 14. 3. A glorious Crown of eternall Excellency set by the hand of God upon the head of the Spouse of Christ possest of a blessed Paradise of everlasting peace v. 15. ult This is thine Excellency O Sion this is thy Glory O Jerusalem Arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee Arise shine Here 's a Precept pregnant with a Promise The Spirit of God deals forth comfort wrapt up in a command For God assures that he will cause his Church to arise and shine in this that he commands her Arise shine Consider this in