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knowledge_n	light_a	light_n	shine_v	1,650	5	9.4062	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76372	Jesus Christ the mysticall or Gospell sun, sometimes seemingly eclipsed, yet never going down from his people: or, Eclipses spiritualized. Opened in a sermon at Paul's before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, &c. March 28. 1652. The day before the late solar eclipse. By Fulk Bellers, Master of Arts, and preacher of the Gospel in the city of London.	Bellers, Fulk, b. 1605 or 6.	1652 (1652)	Wing B1827; Thomason E665_15; ESTC R206852	31,076	41

and n Psal 19.8 maketh his word to be an enlightning word to the mentall eyes of his people 2 He it is that filleth the souls of his elect with light not onely with the light of naturall reason wherewithall a John 1.9 He fils all that come into this world But with the light of grace He that did command light to shine out of darknesse b 2 Cor. 4.6 'T is he that shineth into our souls He sets up a light there viz. the light of saving knowledge and justifying faith yea and the c John 8.12 light of life too in the beginnings or it The Sun naturall is as the Father of light naturall and the Sun spirituall of light spirituall Wherefore he saith d Ephes 5.14 A wake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead and Christ shall give thee light e Isai 60.2 Placaei disp 17. Pag. 179. A passage cited out of this Chapter of Isaiah The Lord shall rise upon thee and his glory shal be seen upon thee The Apostle changeth only the title Jehovah into Christ 2 It produceth heat Hence the Psalmist tels us that f Psal 195. there is nothing hid from the heat thereof It is the heat of the sun that warms the seeds and roots of flowers and many herbs in spring that are in the womb of the earth and draweth them out by his shinings It 's his heat that doth produce Minerals within as well as vegetables upon the surface of the earth Now what the Sun is in the Kingdom of nature that is Christ in the Kingdome of grace It is he that by his word warmes the hearts within of his people 1 Sometimes making them to yeild As the hard Adamant by soking of it in the warm blood of a Goat which as some say is rendred thereby apt to be worked upon so the hard heart of a sinner steeped in the warme blood of Christ Zach. 12.10 fals presently relenting that it may be wrought upon 2 Sometimes to melt as wax before the fire As David found by experience Psal 22.14 My heart is like wax it is melted in the midst of my bowels It is this that turneth an heart of stone into an heart of flesh according to that g Ezek. 36.26 covenant-promise I will take from them an heart of stone and I will give unto them an heart of flesh A melting heart by reason of fear is a great judgement as we see in the h Exod. 15.15 Josh 2.11 Canaanites and i Isai 19.1 Egyptians But to have an heart melted by reason of sin seen through the glasse of the Gospel and the piercings of Jesus Christ is a transcendent mercy As we see in k 2 Kin. 22.19 Josiah Of whom we read that his heart was tender and therfore penitentially he humbleth himself before the Lord. It is the heat under the Limbeck that maketh the water drop out of the head of the Limbeck and it is the inward heat which we find from Jesus Christ that makes many times tears trickle down our eyes because men keep not God's laws It was this that made David wash his bed and water his couch with tears 3 Sometimes it inflames them and setteth their hearts a burning within them That warmth that Christ put into his word did so far transcendently warm Jeremiah's heart that he professeth l Jer. 20.9 his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay Fire will out It was that which made the hearts of those Disciples so hot within them that they brake out Did not our hearts burn within us Luke 24.32 while he spake unto us by the way and opened unto us the Scriptures It is Christ that filleth us so with the fire of love that all the waters of affliction cannot quench it 3 Sometimes it causeth life How doth it draw out that plasticall or formative power which is to be found in seeds making them to sprout while they are under the clod and thereby enquickning them How doth it as it were every Spring call back roots and trees out of their swoone or seeming deadnesse in which they lay all Winter long The Sun by his beams carrieth down life unto them yea to us also in some respect It is the sun that concurreth as an universall cause to the generation of man Sol homo generant hominem and to his supporting in the estate of nature Did not the Sun so qualifie the aire with it's beams it would be utterly unfit to generate or maintaine the vitall spirits in us We owe indeed the life of nature some way to the sun in nature But sure I am we owe the life of grace totally unto Jesus Christ this spirituall Sun Jesus Christ is our m Col. 34. life as well as our light It is he that is a n 1 Cor. 15.45 quickning Spirit As no creature can possibly live without the benefit of the sun so neither can any Christian live the life of grace without Jesus Christ 4 It makes the earth very fruitful it is the sun that makes the trees to sprout and the grasse to spring corne to grow and in a word that crowneth the earth with fruitfulnesse Our God gives o Acts 14.17 fruitfull seasons in their season filling our hearts with food and gladnesse chiefly though not onely by the Suns means whereby he doth renew the face of the earth and bringeth precious things out of it And is there any thing that makes a Christian more p Philip. 1.11 fruitfull in the fruits of righteousnesse then Jesus Christ Without Christ it is certain we can do nothing z Philip. 2.13 till he worketh in us both the will and the deed of his own good pleasure But when his blessing comes to our soules the command of Christ is operative as in the creation when he said q Gen. 1.22 Be fruitfull And it is he that by commanding maketh us to be r Col. 1.10 fruitfull in every good work and doth increase the fruits of righteousnesse in us As all our wel-springs are in Christ so all our fruitfulnesse is from him 5 It bringeth comfort How doth the sight of the Sun in the open air cheer and revive the heart of a man newly drawn out of a dungeon or that hath been a long time confined to his bed of sickness How Å¿ Eccles 11.7 pleasant then is it to behold the light of the Sun It s light and warmth and all its influences are refreshing unto us It is not the promises though never so cordiall that can bring in comfort to our souls unless they do receive a command from Jesus Christ for this end and purpose It is he that comforteth them that are cast down It is he that is the t Luk. 2.25 consolation of Israel and he comes furnished with a commission from his