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A15330 The meteors A sermon preached at a visitation. By Michael VVigmore, Rector of Thorseway in Lincolneshire, and sometimes Fellow of Oriel Colledge in Oxford Wigmore, Michael, 1588 or 9-1664? 1633 (1633) STC 25617; ESTC S119961 13,604 24

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THE METEORS A SERMON PREACHED AT A VISITATION By MICHAEL VVIGMORE Rector of Thorseway in Lincolneshire and sometimes Fellow of Oriel Colledge in Oxford Let your Light so shine before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie your Father which is in heaven Mat. 5. 16. LONDON Printed by THOMAS HARPER for Nathaniel Butter and are to be sold at his shop at the Pyde Bull neere S. Austins Gate 1633. TO THE RIGHT Honourable THOMAS Lord Coventry Baron of Aylesborough Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England one of his Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell c. Right Honourable SVch is the Leprosie of Ingratitude that scarce Luke 17. one in ten comes backe to be thankfull and God seemes to give a checke to mans nature in placing Memory behind in the head as being an Embleme of our dulnesse in rendring the Offices of Gratitude I must and ever will acknowledge to Gods glory and your Honour that as I had my being from above so have I my bene esse from your bounty in so much that as Saint Paul to Philemon I owe unto you even mine Philem. 19. owne selfe With that Samaritan in the Gospell Luc. 17. 15. 16. I am at length come backe againe to worship and to present you with these false fires to make my Duty and Affection legible ut Dei ita est eorum qui Dei in terris Rex Platon vices obeunt pro sua immensitate beneficia largiri sed hominum gratitudinem ex eorum modulo aestimare Long hath mine heart burnt within me Psal 39. 3. with an earnest Quid retribuam In regard Psal 116. 12. of those gratious encouragements by your Honour conferd upon me Nor have I slept in the Land of forgetfulnesse but waited opportunity to vent my selfe and now I have borrowed so much strength of boldnesse as to lift up the eyes of Hope presuming to prefer these flashes to your view in the which as the bad-borrowers of these dayes I doe pay my great debts by small Pensions If this mine Adventure shall finde such admittance as to give the least life to my riper studies I shall not suffer my Temples to rest till I be delivered of a Psal 132. 4. stronger birth Coelum quietem sortitur in motu I shal ever account it my heaven upon earth to labour to shew forth my thankfulnes and to pray with a flaming heart that Gen. 49. 22. 26. the blessing of Ioseph light upon you Decem. 15. 1632. Your Honours humble Eleemosynarie MICHAEL WIGMORE Ad Lectorem CVm carpuntur vitia inde scandalum oritur ipse sibi scandali causa est qui fecit quod argui debet non ille qui arguit Bernard Epist 78. THE METEORS MAT. 5. 14. You are the Light of the World PRoems they are like Cypresse trees long but fruitlesse and as he 2 Macc. 2. 32. It is but a vaine thing to make a long Prologue and to be short in the story it selfe Then briefly to the matter we are to treat of As we finde in Naturall Philosophy Lucem Lumen and Illuminatum the Sunne the Treasurer of Light and Time the Light of the Starres derived from the Sunne and the Light of the Aire proceeding from them both So shee being the Handmaid to Divinity holds out the glasse to 1 Cor. 13. 12. 13. show us the shadow of that we shall know even as we are known First Christ to be that Sunne of Righteousnesse foretold unto Division Verse 2. V. 3. les 9. 1. us in the fourth of Malachy Secondly his Disciples to bee those Starres spoken of in the twelfth of Daniel And thirdly those people that walk in darknesse and that dwell in the Land of the shadow of death to be that Medium illuminatum looking for the light to shine upon them For the First as in the first of Genesis the Light was created I Part The light of Christ seene from the beginning before the Sunne so was Christ knowne in the dayes of Psal 18. 9. Old before the Sunne of Righteousnesse was risen before He appeared in our Horoscope before He bowed the Heavens and came downe to cloath himselfe in the flesh of Man His light was then like the Birth of the Morning The Prophets they beheld this Light that a Virgin should conceive Ies 71 14. and beare a Childe which should be Emanuel God with us The Gentiles they beheld this Light witnesse Zoroastes Mercurius Trismegistus the Sybils the Oracles of their owne gods and to make their ignorance inexcusable they had the Prophets of truth amongst them Iob knew that his Redeemer lived and Iob 19 25. Num. 24. 17. Balaam could prophecie unto Balaak that there should come a Starre of Iacob and rise a Scepter out of Israel The Patriarks they beheld this Light Abraham he saw this day and reioyced and was glad and that Grandsire of all mankinde was no sooner Iohn 8. 56. divested from his Robe of Innocencie But this Day-spring Luc. 1. 78. Gen. 3. 15. Ioh. 1 5. from on high did visit him With the seede of the Woman shall breake the Serpents head And thus the Light shined in the darkenesse For as the Israelites for their Convoy had a Cloud by Day and a Pillar by Night so till the time of the comming of Christ there was no Day without a Cloud no Night so dark but had some light in it God being known from the worlds first being by Visions and Oracles Revelations and Dreames Bulling Decad. 1 Ser. 1. Tradition of doctrine from hand to hand untill the dayes of his servant Moses who was in the seventh generation from Adam and yet the Pen-man of the worlds Historie for neere 2500. yeeres So that Adam and the Patriarks the Gentiles and the Prophets they had all a glimmering of this light they all foretold the comming of Christ as they were moved by the Holy Ghost they 2 Pet. 1 21. Mat 11. 13. Ezech. 4. 1. Keck Phys p 1. ex Virg Iob 36. 32. Galat. 4 4. The light manifested in Christs incarnation Psal 19. 5. 2 Cor. 3. 14. 15. Heb. 10. 10. Heb. 7. 12. Heb. 10. 1. all prophecied unto Iohn who was the Precursor that morning starre that was sent to beare witnesse of the Light And thus as Hierusalem upon a Brickbat or the Acts of the Romans on the Shield of Aeneas I have briefly set out unto you how God hid the Light in his Fist untill hee commanded it to breake forth untill the fulnesse of time was come Then came the Bridegroome out of his chamber rejoycing as a Gyant to runne his course The Law that was the vaile of the Gospell was taken away by the comming of Christ The Sacrifice offered yeere by yeere was abolished in His offering once for all The glory of the Priesthood was translated All the shadowes of good things to come they all vanish at his Lustre I am come