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A81485	A sincere believer, comforted, and encouraged. Or; a practical treatise, discovering the goodness of God to a sinful soul, in the enjoyment of Christ With the great benefit and comfort he hath thereby. Whereby as through a prospective, a true Christian may plainly see how to fit and prepare himself in such a manner, as his endeavours may not be in vaine. By R.D.M.A. and minister of the gospel in the Isle of Wight. Recommended to the serious perusal of all true Christians. By Thomas Goodwin, D.D. and Will Strong, M.A. deceased.	Dingley, Robert, 1619-1660.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.; Strong, William, d. 1654.	1656 (1656)	Wing D1500; ESTC R230249	203,361	369

Graduum 1. A fullnesse of parts when no member is lacking Joh. 6.39 2. Of degrees when no measure of growth is wanting in every part Every member must grow according to its fit proportion O therefore be not contented with a small taste of God when larger tasts and portions of grace are to be had here especially in these times of larger Gospel discoveries and all plenty of meanes Luke 12.48 Finally consider how you are affected in inferiour things how men resolve to be rich and so fall into many snares and tentations Will a competency a taste of outward things content you that yet perish in the using We never think our grounds orchards and gardens fruitfull enough When wee come to a feast wee thinke it not enough that we taste of any dainties unlesse we are satisfied it should be thus in spiritualls Wicked men never think they have enough of sin 'T is their character to grow m 2 Tim. 3.13 worse and worse they drink deep of the cup of pleasure they heap sin upon sin till their iniquities reach up to heaven They draw the threds so big so long till they make cords of vanity and then wreath and twist those cords till they become n Isa 5.18 cartropes of iniquity why so beleevers likewise must aym at a perfection and goe on from o 2 Cor. 3.18 vertue to vertue from glory to glory As the light that increaseth to the perfect day Prov. 4.18 2. Is it so that the Saints have but a taste here in comparison of what they shall have hereafter Oh then let beleevers be perswaded to be even weary sick of this world and say Woe is us that we must live in the tents of Mesech Our soules break with longing after God O you children of promise and heires of heaven why desire some of you to p Quid est diu vivere nisi diu tor queri Aug. de temp 113. live so long upon q Et mundus carcer est et cor pus carcer est Aug. in Psal 141. Mors est quae efficit ut nasci non sit supplicium Seneca ad Marc. cap. 20. Prunum honū non nasci secūdū citius mori It a Silenus apud Lact. Lactant in Instit li. 3. c. 18. earth where you must drinke down continually the bitter potions of care and sorrow and can get but now and then a taste of divine sweetnesse and joy Why love ye not the appearance of Christ Why long you not to enjoy and swim in those rivers of pleasure where you may have your fill and will of God You may guesse at the joyes of heaven by those tasts of God and ravishings of spirit you have sometimes on earth Speak you joynt-heires with Christ have you not sometimes in prayer meditation when your hearts are enlarged your soules upon the wing holy extasies and transportations of spirit in so much that whether you are in the body or out of the body you cannot well tell Call in your sweet experiences and see if they will not witnesse to this truth and have you not esteemed such a moment above all the world what would you give to have more of them and to have them more lasting Why now my Brethren if there be such unspeakable joy at tasting the sweetnesse of God for a little moment how unconceivable will that happinesse be when you shall be filled with those joyes for evermore If our viaticum be so good how great is that r 2 Cor. 4.17 The same word in the Hebrew signifieth glory and weight Glory such a weight that if we were not upheld by the power of God we could never beare it Joy so big that it cannot enter into us 1 Cor. 2.9 but wee must enter into it Matth. 25.21 John Trapp Com. weight of glory which God hath prepared for them that feare him The Lord give you heaved hearts winged affections in the consideration of these things Amen 4. Doct. They onely that taste can see how good the Lord is They onely that taste communion with God and have enjoyments of God in a holy life are able rightly to see and discover and know his goodnesse A good understanding have all they that doe his commandements saith David Psal 111.10 When God turnes men ſ Acts 26.18 from darknesse to light hee turnes them likewise from the power of Satan unto God A man may seem to know much and yet know nothing a right no not the least or easiest principle of Religion till this be done 1 Corinth 12.3 No man can see nor say that Jesus is the Lord but by the holy Ghost They know nothing yet as they ought to know and t Eph. 4.21 as the truth is in Jesus till they have the Spirit and by him have tasted how good the Lord is till they have warm affections in heavenly things and the bent and purpose of their hearts is to please God and work by rule Let me lay down the grounds or arguments which will open and illustrate the truth 1. True knowledge is not bare speculation Arg. 1 't is heart-work as well as brain-work See 2 Cor. 4.6 God who commanded the light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts to u Duplicem illuminationeus ponit unam Evangelii alteram arcanam quae fit in cordibus Calv. give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ Where you see 1. That Jehovah is a very glorious Being he is clothed with light as with a garment 2. We are not able with w Non nisi in Christi facie cognoscitur Deus qui viva est at que 〈◊〉 pressa ej●s mago Col. 1.15 Idem comfort to behold this glory but in the smiling face of Christ God out of Christ a consuming fire 3. Till God shine we are not able to see him in Christ the Gospel is a sealed book till he unclasp it by his Spirit 4. Illumination of a darke soule is as great a wonder as the creation and illumination of the world But then 5. And lastly that which I quote the Text for is this That when God shines in upon men he doth not onely shine into their heads to illuminate them but into their hearts to affect and transform and new x Renovamur in imaginem Dei per cognitionem Col. 3.10 Idem mould them 'T is said John 17.3 This is life eternall to know Thee and Christ whom Thou hast sent Gospel knowledge therefore is more then a Metaphysicall speculation and sticking in the notion for thousands with such kinde of knowledge perish saving knowledge is a very glorious and comprehensive grace Again Arg. 2 God is at once a Fountaine of Light and Life as the y Semper in Sole sita est Rhodos qui calorem colorem nobis impertit Aeneas Sylv. y Talpis auscultationis gloria damnatur oculis And usually say

nisi sanctius vixeris Chrys ask what worth hee saw in that poore piece answered Couldst thou see with my eyes thou wouldst wish thy self all eye and be ravished with it And so could carnally minded men but see truths with a beleevers eyes and in Gods light Oh how would they love Jesus Christ and prize holinesse Well these with all their knowledge are as tinkling Cymbals in the eares of God which make sorry musicke without any distinction of notes They say wee see and therefore their sinne remaines but John saith they are downright lyars 1 John 2.4 He that saith I know him and keepes not his commandements is a lyar and the truth is not in him He that saith I k One day God will require of men non quid legerint sed quid egerint nec quid dixerint sed quomodo vixerint know God and yet takes no delight nor joy in God is the loudest lyar under heaven for he knowes not God at all as he ought to know him and as the truth is in Jesus And surely the lowest and hottest place in hell is kept for these they shall bee beaten with many stripes and lasht with whips of Scorpions that knew their masters wil and did it not Sapientes sapienter descendunt in infernum saith Bernard Bernard Rom. 1.21.24 they shall be damned with a witnesse and curse the time that ever they heard of Christ or knew his wil for this wil add unto their plagues 3. Vse 3 The main thing will be to search and enquire whether we so see as withall to taste Gods goodnesse viz. whether our visions are of the right complexion yea or no. First Character 1 doe you thirst after l Such as had lived long without making progresse in knowledge were called by Philo very properly Longaevi pueri B. Cowper on Psa 119.9 more knowledge and lye panting for clearer visions of God This you could not doe but that you have tasted Gods goodnesse and so long to see and know and enjoy more of it Psal 119.97 Oh how I love thy Law it is my meditation all the day And at the 99. v. I have more understanding then my Teachers How came David to bee continually meditating of the Word and getting more and more knowledge of God Why he loved the Lord so as could not be expressed Oh how I love him Hee had tasted divine goodnesse and so came to see so much of God But see 1 Pet. 2.2 3. As new borne babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that you may grow thereby if so be you have tasted that the Lord is gracious q.d. Else I shal in vain presse you to labour for more knowledge for wicked ones m Job 21.14 desire not the knowledge of God or his wayes They love Darknesse rather then Light saith Christ Secondly is thy knowledge experimentall Character 2 Then hast thou tasted God Brethren the knowledge of a formall professor or nominall Christian is much like the speculative knowledge of a Geographer that sits in his dry chamber warm gown looking on a Map of the world or turning his Globe where he beholds the Rockes and Streights without any danger or feare with his finger and nimble wit he flies over the most boysterous and tempestuous Seas and now is in pleasant Countries rich Mines spicy Gardens but all this in fancy not fruition n Quam multi sun● qui sermone valent loquuntur non tamen sale coelesti conditi sūt recēsentque multa de mensa regiâ quorum nulium adepti sunt gustum Macar ho. 16. So it is with a formall Professor he gathers all his knowledge out of bookes discourses and Sermons nothing by experience Whereas a true beleever as hee can discourse of the joyes of heaven so hee clearly sees them with Stephen by the eye of Faith and sensibly feedes on them by the power of hope he stands not on the shore observing the tempestuous seas and temptations in which others toyle but himselfe is miserably tossed too fro and turmoyled in the tempest and by the grace of God he gets through all and is more then conquerour He doth not onely read of Crystal fountains spicy Islands and rocks of Diamonds but he himself is inriched invested with them and his soule is filled with spirituall sweetnesse Is thy knowledge thus experimentall as Jobs was o Titelman restrains it to a bodily sight of God appearing then in a visible shape but others say it describes celestiall visions appearances of Christ to the soule Job 42.5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the eare but now mine eye seeth thee i. e. Most of thee Job had knowledge afore but now in his trials and afflictions he was taken off from the world and tasted communion with God more then ever and now he sees God by a clearer light Ah now mine eyes see thee q. d. My soule was in a mist till now but now I have clearer visions of thy glory and splendor Thirdly Charact. 3 is thy knowledge diffusive Art thou informing others and doing all the good thou art able that ignorance may be cudgel'd out of mens mindes and that some chink may be opened to let in the light of the Gospell Is this thy designe endeavour and delight Then surely thou hast tasted and seen God in his goodnesse p Vide Thom. Cartwright Dr Jermin on Pro. 10.21 Prov. 10.21 The lippes of the Righteous will feed many Others monopolize knowledge to themselves lest others should outstrip and darken them but mark the lips of the righteous will feed many 'T is a table furnished not with earthly but heavenly dainties and 't is a free table such as come are welcome David saith Gregory prayes for a Dore not a Barre Keep O Lord the Dore of my lips Now a dore q Ostium non obstaculū quia ostium clauditur aperitur Greg. saith the Father is both shut and opened and therefore though the lips of the righteous be shut that no hurtfull thing come forth yet they will open also in a free hospitality whereby to feed many Philip having tasted communion with Christ was not contented to see Christ himself unlesse he call Nathanael saying r John 1.45 Come and see and the ſ 4.28 woman of Samaria calleth her kindred to see the worlds Saviour This is the nature of spirituall knowledge that is accompanied with tastes of Gods goodnesse t Latum discrimen inter corporalia spiritualia bona nam si quis reperiret in agro aliquo thesaurum co solus uti vellet nec cuipiam patefaceret Musculus in John 4.28 At verae Christi cognitionis natura est ut qui eam nactus fuerit nihil habeat prius qu am plurimis eam communicare Martin Bucerus Neque enim sepulta otiosa jacere potest in fidelium cordibus Dei cognit io quin se apud homines proferat Calvinus They

P●nem vides praeterea nihil sed audis tesseram esse corporis Christi ne dubita impleri à Domino quod verba sonant corpus quod nequaquàm cernis spirituale esse tibi alimentum Calv. in Mat. 26.26 This is my Body and this is my Blood q. d. These outward Signes and Seales are most sure and certain pledges of my Body and Blood which I doe as truly give to be spirituall food as I give the Bread and Wine to be bodily food to every beleever 1 Cor. 10.16 This was long since promised Isai 25.6 The Lord will make a feast of fat things of wine on the Lees well refined So Prov. 9.5 Here Christ as the Master of the Feast bids us welcome saying Eat O friends yea drink abundantly my beloved Here the the hungring and thirsting Soule hath refreshment and strength from heaven here it is put in mind of Christ and all that he hath done and endured for us Here it hath heavings and violent liftings of heart towards God And Christ saith Open your mouthes wide and I will fill them with good things Here the Soule hath meetings with God and is convinc'd of his love and the truth of his promises For this is a Seale of the righteousnesse of Faith Rom. 4.11 It confirmes the covenant of grace to us You see how we taste the goodnesse of God in the Lords Supper 4. Conference 4. In Society and Communion and Christian conference with the Saints and speaking often to one another of the things of Heaven Mal. 3.16 For thereby we taste of others gifts which are given them for others to profit withall and they will be ready to comfort us with the comforts wherewith they have been comforted of God as 2 Cor. 1.4 Indeed much of God may be seen and tasted in communion with the Saints 'T is a piece of heaven upon earth 't is the joy of Christians All my delight saith David is in them that excell in vertue Communion with the Saints is often made a step to fellowship with Christ as 1 Iohn 1.4 c Haec itaque socletas cujus meminit Johannes est Ecclesia Christi quae in symbolo dicitur sanctorum communio habet autē maxima bona spiritualia c. Thomas Naogeorgus in 1 Johan 1.4 That yee may have communion with us and that also our communion may be with the father Throw a dead Charcoale among the living and it will soon sparkle and kindle Simile First indeed sparkle viz. Thou wilt dislike their wayes principles but afterwards kindle and glow with love to God and his truth when you have lookt better into them and tasted Gods goodnesse among them 5. Meditation 5. In f Gustare est cogitare Erhard Schueptius Comment in Psal 34.6 Meditation This is a Saints pastime it recreates and perfumes the tyred spirits 't is a Ladder by which the Soul-clambers up to heaven 't is a duty is ever at hand Prov. 6.22 When thou goest it shall lead thee when thou sleepest it shall keep thee when thou awakest it shall talk with thee When thou art alone nay in the darke when travelling c. On all occasions you may let out your soul in meditation when other duties cannot be performed Nay when you sleep you may be medling with this duty For having communion with God in the day and closing thy eyes with some meditation even thy dreames may be of the love of God and the glory of heaven as the experiences of the Saints can witnesse Meditation it enter● us into the first degrees of those heavenly joyes and imparts to us some beginnings of the vision and fruition of God It enables us with Moses to discerne as we are able some glimpses of God that our faces shine with purity and divine splendor By this we are ravished with Paul and are catcht up into paradise and in the twinkling of an eye are driven as in a fiery Chariot into heaven By this with holy g Soli Stephano conspicua fuit Dei gloria impiis enim qui eodem loco stabanc hoc spectaculum latebat undè sequitur non in coelis sed potius in Stephano editum fuisse miraculum Calvin in Acts 7.56 Stephen we see the heavens opened and Jesus sitting at the right hand of God Indeed admirable are the effects of divine meditation It confirms our knowledge Psal 119.99 It strengthens our memory Ps 63.6 It enflames our love as bellows the cynders Psal 119.97 and Psal 39.3 It cherishes affiance in God as Psal 119.147 148. It maintains a true and son-like feare of God Psal 4.4 It hushes and quiets the soule in afflictions Psal 119.23 1 Pet. 4.12 Thinke it not strange q. d. It matters much what our thoughts and meditations are in trouble It promotes prayer Psal 143.5 6. Eccles 5.2 and praising God This tunes the harp Psal 63.5 6. It weanes and sequesters the heart from the world It spiritualizes our discourse Psal 77.12 Mat. 12.34 If there be fire on the hearth some sparks will flie out at the chimney In a word it casts a secret influence on the life Josh 1.8 Psal 1.3 and 119.15 Purge the fountaine and the streames will run pure The life is easily transformed when the heart is new moulded What shall I say h Cogitare est vivere Tull. Acad. Quaest lib. 1. Meditation is the very life of our life as a Heathen could say and see by the light of nature It is the food of our soules the fuell of our zeale the spur of our devotion The soule that can meditate on God is never lesse i Nunquam minus solus quam cum solus alone then when alone for his fellowship is then with the Father and his Sonne Jesus Christ It delights to walke in these groves and fold the armes in these shadie bowers of solitary but divine meditation where it heares the Nightingale of a good conscience warble melodiousl● k Psal 104.34 My meditation of thee shall be sweet saith David and in the multitude of my thoughts thy comforts delight my soule q. d. I caste much of God in this duty and it feeds me with many sweet morsells of contentment Psal 104.34 But now doe beleever● taste the goodnesse of God in divine medication Quest Ans I answer 1. By meditating of all his glorious perfections especially the boundlesse dimensions of his sweetest attribute which is his mercy So l Hic locus hortatur omnes homines ut velint cogitare de bonitate Domini Erhard Schnepfius in Psal 34.6 Pag. 204. taste and see viz. consider a little with me saith David here how good the Lord is q. d. By meditating dive into the Ocean of divine sweetnesse and contemplate of him that is beauty and goodnesse it selfe 2. By meditating m Nolite omnia beneficia Dei sine gustu deglutire aut maligne perpetuâ oblivione sepelire sicut faciunt impii Sed adbibete palatum videte

and so hee is visible and yet therein most lovely For he is the expresse image of the Father and the brightnesse of his glory Heb. 1.3 And thus the light of the knowledge of the l Dum igitur audimus filium esse splendorem gloriae pa paternae sic apud nos cogitemus-gloriam patris esse nobis invisibilem donec in Christo refulgeat Calv. in Heb. 1.3 glory of God is given us in the face of Christ that face that is white and ruddie in whose cheeks are beds of spices his eyes like Doves eyes his looks bushy and his lips like Lillies fairer then the sonnes or daughters of men the chiefest of ten thousand O his countenance is as Lebanon he is altogether lovely Heaven 's in his smiles This is our beloved and this is our friend O daughters of Jerusalem Cant. 5. When Christ gives the soule a glimpse of himselfe it cannot but say that the beautie of Creatures is uglinesse and deformity to Christ and the best and highest comparisons and expressions are created shadows which come infinitely short of Christ If I had the tongue of men and Angels to describe him it would be as deep silence to Christs shewing of himselfe to you And when you have viewed and gazed upon Christ with all greedinesse to eternitie beleeve this There will remaine unseene treasures of lovelinesse and glory in Christ m In his transfiguration very glorious Matth. 17.2 much more in Heaven Plato speaking of God could say He was the horne of plenty and the Ocean of Beauty He is like the lovely Rose of Sharon O 't is a ravishing sight to see this King in his Beauty n Isa 33.17 Isa 33.17 'T is a changing transforming sight is casts down certain rayes and sparkles of glory on them that view it o 2 Cor. 3.18 Rev. 4.6 2 Cor. 3.18 Angels have eyes within and without Rev. 4.6 But here 's fewell enough to feed them all they cannot get their eyes pulled off from Christ Sinners no sooner see him but they are sicke of love and ready to fall into a swound cry Stay us with Flaggons and comfort us with Apples Cant. 2.5 Tully tells us of Zeuxis that being to draw the Picture of Helena I think for the Temple of the Crotonians he caused divers comely Virgins to stand before him that as a Garland out of severall flowers from all their features and complexions he might draw one perfect Beauty and thus the industrious Chymick extracts a little Gold out of much course mettle should I imitate that Painter or this Chymick set all the delights and glories of the world before mee and put them all together or extract somewhat amiable and excellent out of all the drosse and dung here below as Paul calls it all would not be able to coyne in your hearts an Idea of Christ you 'd still rest unsatisfied and walke in darknesse unlesse the Spirit would reveale Christ unto you as he did unto Paul Gal. 1.16 To conclude this q Gen. 39.6 Joseph was herein a Type of Christ it is said he was a goodly Person and w●●● favoured r Gratior est pulchro veniens è corpore virtus and though bodily beauty is a gift of God yet saith Austin he was fairer within then without Well herein he was a type of Christ as well as in the other things For Joseph was set p Gloria Christi ineffabilis et exactè in bujus vitae infirmit ate sciri nequit sed quando videbimus Christum a sacie ad Faciem Gerhard Tom. 9. De vitâ aeternâ ſ Pulchrior in luce cordis quā facie corporis Aug. over the whole Land in generall the Kings house in speciall so Christ is Lord over the whole world but chiefly of his Church which is called Gods Family t Eph. 3.15 Galat. 16.10 Joseph had the custody of the Kings Garner therewith fed all Aegypt and other Nations and Christ hath all the fullnesse of God wherewith he spiritually feeds Jewes Gentiles Beleevers of all Nations that come with empty sacks and hearts to him 7. As the Sunne is bright in it selfe so it is the Beauty and Ornament of the world viz. It discovers the worlds beauty it is that makes all things appeare so lovely and amiable the fairest and most lovely objects is Pictures c. if set in the darke afford no pleasure no delight nor contentment u Christus omnia n●vâ luce rovâ vità no●apu Ch●●●udiue exornat Cornelius A Lapide in Mat. 4.2 Pag. 355. Christ also is the Beauty and Ornament both of soules Nations I and Heaven it selfe 1. Of soules Christ is the beauty of your soules and mine Jeremy's dungeon dark and miery and so are your soules ignorant and deformed till Christ shines in upon you All outward comforts or naturall parts or secular learning or scripture-Scripture-knowledge cannot make a soule appeare beautifull to God or good men till Christ shines unlesse the Apostles had been illuminated by this Sun within they had been darknesse it selfe saith w Nisi Apostoli p●r hane lucem illuminatisu●ssent prorsus Ten●brae essent Muse in Joh. 1.9 Musculus 2. As Christ is the beauty and ornament of soules so of Nations Where pure Ordinances are administred there is the beauty of Holinesse and on all such Glory Lament 4.1 God will be a Defence When Christ sits upon his Throne then is a Nation happy Though a Land should abound with mines of gold mountains of Pearle and Rivers of Nectar and were another Paradise yet if Christ and Gospel and Ordinances were not there the Inhabitants might cry Ichabod for the glory is departed But then if Christ is there what can be wanting Haggai prophesied that the second Temple should be far more glorious then the first not that it should be so adorned as the former but that Christ was to be and preach there God hath given Christ and the Word to us he hath given to other Nations other blessings To the Muscovites hides and precious skinnes to the Moores of Barbary Sugar and sweet spices to the Spaniards Wine and fruits to the Indians gold and silver to them of Cathai Pearles and precious Stones to the Persians silk and Margarites to them of Finland Greenland fish and fowls but to us he hath given Christ and his Gospel and all other things needfull for us Oh blessed be the day and happy be the houre wherein they came to us Let that day be as the day wherein Israel came out of Aegypt if wee had more tongues then Argus had eyes if every haire of our heads saith x Sam. Otes on Jude one were a life every life longer then Methuselah's all were too little to praise God for this mercy 3. y Ibi verus Sol justitiae mira suae pulchritudinis visione omnes reficiet it a universos coelestis patriae cives illuminat ultra omnē solis nostri splendorem

came Saul to fall a Jew and rise a Christian See Acts 26.16 Christ appeared to him for that purpose See what came on 't x See Perkins 2. Volumne on Gal. 1.16 Pag. 180. opening that place Gal. 1.16 When it pleased God to reveale his Sonne in mee immediately I conferr'd not with flesh and bloud q. d. I was alter ego a chang'd man no longer a persecuting Saul but a praying Paul and I went not to consult with flesh and bloud that is neither with carnall company nor old Principles No I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision Nay I was resolved to obey it and stop my eares to all discouragements c. All this when the Sun of righteousnesse arose in mee when Christ appea●●● and reveal'd himselfe to mee 3. Christ the Sun of righteousnesse ariseth in a soule when hee comes to quicken and revive it when the soule hath spirituall enjoyments of God and spirituall actings to God which is the very life of poor Christians when there is grounded assurance of his love and all joy and peace in beleeving when the soule is willing to be ordered by Christ and bound up in the will of God and can tell how to live upon God now indeed Christ is risen with healing under his wings to such a sinner why else doth David say touching Gods favour O lift up the light of thy countenance and return O Lord and cause thy face to shine upon me c. 3. Wherein Christs revealing himselfe like the rising of the Su●●e 3. Thirdly Let us now see wherein Christs revealing and discovering himself and his beauty may be fitly compared to the rising of the Sun I answer The similitude holds in 7 things chiefly 1. The rising of the Sunne is not all in an instant he riseth by degrees and such also is the rising of Christ the Sun of righteousnes in a soul you read of the dawning of the day of grace there 2 Pet. 1.19 when there is the twilight of grace some glimmerings of light in the mind and the soule seeth things imperfectly as the blind man whom Christ ●nred first saw men as trees afte●w●rds more distinctly At first the s●u●e sees darkly and obscurely afterwards y Nunc quum lux nobis veritatis insulget cum sese regni coelestis su avitas mētibus ap●rit ●am quidē dies est sed perfe●tus erit ●ies quando ●am quicquam d●nocte peccati in mēte nostra ●n n●rit C●e● R●gis● ep●●●● 7. Ind. 1● ep 126 Vide idem in Exek Homil. 5. l. 1. more clearly 7. Ind. 11. ep 126. for every beleever increaseth in knowledge and grace and goes forward to perfection Vide idem in Ezek. Hom●● 5. l. 1. as Prov. 4.18 The path of the just is as the Sunne that shines more and more unto the perfect day 'T is the same in the world this Sunne riseth by degrees and the Gospell hath small beginnings in many places Dan. 2.34 That little stone shall break in peeces the greatest Monarchies of the earth and grow up into a huge Mountaine that shall fill the world for all the kingdomes of the earth shall become the kingdomes of our Lord and his Christ z Rome was not built in a day neither will it bee pul'd down in a day And then shall that Promise be fulfilled Isa 30.26 The light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun as the light of seven dayes 2. The rising of the Sunne dispels all a Judg. 5.31 Fogges Mist● and Dewes Hos 6.4 So 't is with Christ the rising of this Sunne scattered Jewish ceremonies which were but as dark Types and shadows of things to come b Figurae suerunt quae portenderent ea quae post essent vere exhibenda a Christo Bullinger in locum Col. 2.17 These all flew away at the rising of this Sunne and still his and the Gospels rising scatter the thick mists of superstition and ignorance in which kingdomes are inveloped So Rev. 2.16 especially 1 Thess 2.8 Hee shall destroy Antichrist with the brightnesse of his comming which is not spoken saith Doctor Sclater of his last corporall comming but of the c Dr. William Sclater in expos on the Epistles to the Thess pag. 143. 144. spirituall manifestations of his presence in the Church at the appearance whereof the very throne of Antichrist shall totter and Popery vanish as the dew before the rising Sunne Christ doth the like in soules for when he ariseth and shoots his bright beames into our hearts all the damp fogg● of unbeliefe are chased and dispelled and he gives us the cleare d 2 Cor. 4.6 light of the knowledge of the glory of GOD in the face of Christ 3. The rising of the Sunne is the rising of many millions besides the Sunne whom it awakens and raises and sends out to work Psal 104.22.23 The Sunne arises and the Lions goe into their Dennes but man riseth and goeth forth to his worke and to his labour unto the evening 'T is so when Christ ariseth and manifests himselfe sinners will then arise from the Down bed of Security and work out their own salvation whilst the day lasts See Isai 40.1 Arise and shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee e Non significat Paulus tune demū affulgere nobis Christi lumē ubisurrexerimus ex morte sed demonstrat nos resurgere a morte quum nos Christus illuminat Calv. in Eph. 5. ●4 So Ephes 5.14 Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead for Christ shall give thee light q. d. The Sunne of righteousnesse is risen therefore do you also arise The light and love of Christ Oh how it shames men out of sinne and security 4. The rising of the Sunne is not alwayes visible Christ may be risen in point of grace and thou know it not nor see him in point of comfort 5. The visible rising of the Sunne is attended with the f Omnes pene aves mane cātillant cantuque suo solem oriētem salutant Mu●cul chirping and singing of birds yea it is welcome to g Oriens sol est instar sponsi de Thalamo suo prodeuntis Corn. a Lapide in Mal. all but Theeves and Whoremongers who saith Solomon delight in the duskish twilight The rising of the Sunne of righteousnesse is welcome to the Saints they sing and leap for joy 2 Sam. 23.4 He viz. Christ shall bee as the light of the morning when the Sun ariseth an old prophesie of Christ q.d. Oh hee shall be very welcome and refreshing to us but wicked men love darknesse rather then light because their deeds are evill 6. The Sunne ariseth in the h Num. 34.15 East and i Templū versus orientem non ut solem orientem adorarent sed solis dominum Procopius in libros Regum lib. 3. c. 6. many conclude Christ

make and keep us Humble Page 84 Hypocrites may climbe many rounds in Jacobs ladder and tumble down at last Page 49. to 51 The most glorious Hypocrite comes far short of the weakest beleever in many things Page 51. to 53 I Elect Jews under the Law saved by Christ as well as we Page 171 172 Pity the unbeleeving Jews Page 177 178 Christ Illuminates the soul Page 252 253 True Illumination a fruit of Christs Ascension Page 103 Imitate God in goodnesse Page 147 Imitate Angels Page 10 Impenitent sinners shall not be spared Page 231 Imperfections in the best here The point proved reasons added inferences urged and objections answered Page 77. to 100 Of Imputed righteousnesse Page 233. to 244 Of Christs Incarnation Page 247 248 Incredulous Jews to be pitied Page 177 178 God an Independent good indeed there is no Independent being besides him Page 125. to 128 Inexhaustible fountains in Christ Page 16 17 Infatuation of Gods enemies makes way for his peoples escape Page 4 In divine Influences of the Spirit God is tasted and enjoyed Page 46 47 Inherent righteousnesse 1. in Christ 2. in us Page 24. to 39 Innocency condemn'd by the world Page 230. 231 Comfort may come in an instant Page 182 183 Invitation of others unto holinesse Page 12. to 21 Joseph was a Type of Christ Page 193 194 Joy in heaven at the conversion of one soule Page 18 Glorious discoveries of Christ at the day of Judgement Page 252 How Saints shall Judge the world Page 82 Judge not of Christians by their possessions but by their reversions Page 92 Christ will administer Justice to evill deers Page 245 The folly and danger of Justiciaties is great Page 242 How wee are justified by works Page 242 K. Behold the King Jesus in his beauty Page 190. to 194 Christ the King of Saints he is exceeding great and glorious as the Sunne among the Starres Page 188. to 190 Gospel Knowledge is not bare speculation Page 101 102 Knowledge a fruit of Christs Ascension Page 103 Saving Knowledge is communicated to the friends of Christ and such as filially feare and obey him Page 104 105 The true reason of our small Knowledge is our little practice little love to Christ Page 105 106 Some have much superficiall knowledge and are filled with cleare notions and bright speculations and yet are voyde of Divine Light Page 106 107 Six infallible marks of saving knowledge and the visions of Heaven Page 108 to 114 A little experimentall knowledge will goe farther then a sea of notionall Page 114. to 116 Without a competency of knowledge there can be no holinesse no Grace Page 116 117 L Of lazy sluggishnesse in spirituall things Page 60 How God is said to lead into Temptation Page 139 140 Learne of God who is Goodnesse it selfe Page 147 Where there is a spirituall life there are all the spirituall senses Page 102 103 Get a holy wearinesse of this life for here is but a taste of God Page 85. 99 Christ is the glorious fountaine of Light filling the lesser vessels with his glory Page 180. to 223 Christ is seene by his own Light Page 203 Inward light examined Page 108. to 114 There is but a little taste of God here the full meale is in Heaven Page 77. to 100 Why so little knowledge in the world in comparison of what may he had and is obtained by many Page 105 106 The Lords day to be strictly observed as a day dedicated to Christ and set apart for spirituall enjoyments and improvements Page 221 222 Christs love is matchlesse Page 231 The love of God is not utterly concealed from Saints in their Pilgrimage Page 81 Such as have low thoughts of beleevers now shall one day admire them Page 92 93 M. The worlds madnesse in condemning Christ Page 230 Christs magnitude unmeasurable Page 189 190 Malachy what it signifies and who it was Page 151 The makings forth of God are not perfect in this Administration Page 78 79 Erberie makes Christ a meere Man Page 227 God doth manifest his wisdome and power in our preservation for wee have here but a sparke of Grace in an Ocean of corruption Page 83 84 There is a time of Christ manifesting himselfe to Nations and soules Page 247. to 265 Christ heales us to marry us Page 279 280 The matchlesse love of Christ to be admired Page 231 There is but one Mediator Page 185. to 187 Meditation helps us to retaine and improve our experiences Page 25 By Meditation the goodnesse of God is tasted Page 42. to 45. Wee must meditate of his Perfections and out-goings Page 44 How memory is helpt to conserve experiences by prizing writing them conference meditation and Prayer Page 24 25 Christ ever in the midst Page 196 197 Christians are here in their minority Page 92 Their misery unutterable that are without Christ Page 219 The Church is governed by a Monarchy for they have but one King which is Christ Page 185. to 187 The Moon-light of reason cannot make day Page 207 208 Rest not in sincerity but get more Grace Page 95. to 99 He that would get more of Christ must freely communicate of what he hath received Page 17 The motions of Christ wonderfull Page 197. to 200 A multitude of Angells to guard us Page 6 N. Christ the Ornament of Nations Page 195 196 Christ can heale Nations Page 277 278 Of Christs Nativity Page 247 248 Neglect of winning others a sinne Page 19 When others neglect us Christ pittieth us Page 287 288 Our happinesse under the New Testament above theirs under the old in five respects Page 172. to 176 Christ nigh unto the broken in heart Page 287 O. The promise of knowledge is to such as obey God Page 105 Observation of Gods dealings will make us trust in God for ever Page 24 25 The occasion of the 24th Psalme Page 2. to 5 Occurrences tending to our deliverance should beget thankfulnesse Page 5 It is the office of Angells to guard beleevers Page 6 It is Christs office to cure us Page 279 Oh! an Interjection paints out four Affections viz. Joy Griese Love and Desire Page 28 29 Old sinnes curable Page 285 Saints under the old Testament saved by Christ as well as wee Page 171 172 There is but one Saviour Page 185. to 187 Oppression a great sinne Page 66 How an Orator may work on the Affections Page 31 That Christ dwells in the Orbe or circle of the Sunne an old heresie refuted Page 216. to 218 Christ orders sinne and yet abides pure Page 203 204 In Ordinances God is tasted Page 38. to 45 Many want Ordinances a sad case Page 59 Christ the Ornament of soules Nations and Heaven it selfe Page 194. to 196 The same Christ is a flaming Oven to the wicked and a reviving Sunne to such as feare him Page 156. to 161 P. Dally not with Gods Patience Page 246 Patience requisite to a cure Page 192 How People may profit by the Word Page