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lord_n	christian_a	day_n	sabbath_n	12,184	5	9.9778	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

neather springs both which fal into one river and make glad the City of God both these fields yield a plentiful harvest of comfort to the godly Quest. But here the godly soul is oft troubled and saith when shall this promise bee fulfilled this vision is for many dayes to come When will this Sun arise Answ. Though the Sun keep a certaine houre of his arising knowne to all yet of this day and hour knoweth no man when this Sun of righteousnesse will arise The operation and course of nature is much alike The dispensations of grace and peace are various more different then any other actings of God therefore nothing can be set downe certainly as a constant rule There are four notable dayes of the coming of Christ two in this life two after all alike unknowne 1. When Christ will come with his fanne in his hand refiners fire and fullers soap at conversion to purifie an elect unconverted 2. When with healing under his wings to cheer and satisfie the Elect converted yet unsatisfied soule 3. The third great and notable day of the Lord is at death when he comes as a Bridegroome his reward with him to make perfect the elect converted comforted soule yet never perfected And the fourth is the greatest of all when he cometh in the clouds to render to all according to their deeds None of these four dayes of the Lord are like the Lords day which is knowne and kept by all alike and we know that after every six dayes another will certainly follow but as the thiefe by night or the lightning not the sun by day come suddenly unexpected or as the dayes of Noah and of Lot were so shall all these comings of the Son of man be 1. Those dayes came but once 2. Came of a sudden 3. Came to put a mighty difference between them and others yet had we not need bee as the world was then Eating drinking sinning singing c. but as Noah and Lot fearing waiting praying preparing Samuel had the Sunne breaking out in the morning he was called young and it shined all day to his old gray ●ayres Abraham had no sun nor ●ight of heaven ●●il he was seventy five years old and had a sad houre of darknesse before the covenant made The Lord had said hee would be a shield to him before he shewed himselfe to be his Sun Job had a glorious morning Sun in his younger age It was sadly overclouded at Noon but brake out again ere night Solomon the like or more glorious morning and noone waded toward evening and set in a cloud Moses had frequent familiarity with God as a friend forty dayes entertained by him as his Ghest and one day above all the rest had into the banquetting house as his onely favourite hee saw the similitude of the Lord heard his Name proclaimed beheld his glory and had this superadded I know thee by thy name and thou hast found favour in my sight Jacob was twenty whole years kept in suspence about his sonne Joseph ere he knew what was become of him and full twenty years it was betweene his first vision at Bethel and that at Penuel where he saw God face to face Thomas was but eight dayes under that uncomfortable fit of incredulity then full satisfaction Manoahs wife had two heavenly apparitions not long between the one and the other no more all her life Solomon had his two also The Son of God bad only one transfiguration and twice that testimony Thou art my Beloved Son the rest of his life was all Humiliation Heman and Ethan haply never saw the sun of righteousnesse shine out all their dayes never got higher then faith of Adherence yet dyed in faith not having received the promises But first usually the Promise is made good when the Christian is conscientiously attending on Gospel ordinances to meet God in his way when we wait to receive God wayteth to bestow grace 1. The Lords day is usually the day of the Lord the desired day of the Son of man on that day John being in the spirit had that communion with Christ and the Revelation of so great mysteries The Sabbath sanctified is also blissed The house of prayer is the place where God will make his people joyfull and where God records his name in any place hee will there meet and blesse his people Upon every dwelling place of mount Syon and upon her assemblies the Lord hath promised to creaete a cloud and smoak by day and a pillar of fire by night for upon all the glory shall bee a defence Where was Christ to bee found but in the Temple And when did he appear to his Disciples but on the Lords day one day after another It is observed if there be any wind at all stirring it is about the Church and if any breath of the spirit it is within the Church Sometimes Christ sets this fruit on the Preachers lips and there you must gather it Sometimes and as usually in and after prayer Cornelius had his and Peter his vision when both at prayer Christ had both those famous testimonies by audible voyce on the day of the holy Ghosts Transfiguration into a dove and his owne Transfiguration after when at prayer When did Jacob see the face of God but when he wept and made supplication Often at the Sacrament when wee set to our seals and avouch God for our God he sets to his seal and doth avouch us for his people Christ at Baptism received that first testimony from the Fathers mouth and the spirits descending upon him And how many doe we read of that have together with the water Baptisme received that also of the holy Ghost So for that other Sacrament how many can say in experience the Lord hath been known to them in breaking of bread when not till then discovered Abraham had the covenant first made and sealed at that first and notable Sacrament or Sacramental sacrifice so solemnely celebrated When Hezekiah and his people prepared themselves to a religious celebrating the Passeover their prayer came up to heaven God heard and healed his people Wait then upon God in the way of his owne ordinances And if thou know not yet where Christ is to be found goe thy way forth by the foot steps of the flock and feed thy kids besides the shepherds tents 2. Sometimes God revealeth himselfe in an extraordinary manner when we have been seeking him in a more extraordinary manner when Jacob was more importunate then ever had wrestled and wept all night he saw Gods face in the morning 3. Often before some singular tryall to be undergone and some hard service to bee performed Jacob had that laetificall vision at Bethel when he was to enter on Labans hard service Joseph had his divine dreame before hee was sold that he might have somewhat to live upon in

help not out of the floor or ●ine presse of the Promises Now for a Pro●ise to deliver Fear ease Conscience secure Repentance satisfie Faith and keep up Prayer Come some precious Promise how do ● long for a Promise Promise saith to Christ●s ●s the Gibeonite to Joshuah Lord slack ●ot thy hand Lord remember thy Covenant and Word wherein thou hast caused thy ser●ant to put his trust Or as David in ano●her case to Jonathan his bosome friend Thou hast brought thy servant into a Covenant of the Lord with thee deal thou kindly therefore with thy servant deliver me not up to thy Fathers displeasure but mediate for me hide nothing from me let me know whether thy Father be angry or pleased Here is nothing but fear all this while But then Christ answereth the poor soul in the words of Jonathan Fear not far be it from thee If I knew that evil was determined against thee I would tell thee Go in Peace He that seeketh thy life seeketh mine abide with me and thou shalt be in safety as David said to Abiathar Then is all quiet and Conscience secure But you see Fear stands Sentinel and procures this safety The Spirit of God is the Spring but holy Fear is the great wheel or else the weight that sets all a going No cares no prayers said Melancton no fears no hopes The second Reason As it is the initial first Grace so it is the last yea the lasting and standing Grace When we can speak but little of Faith Hope Love and nothing at all of Assurance Yet saith the soul I cannot deny this I fear God said Jonah though he fled from him or as the poor Egyptians in that sore famine fell down before Joseph We cannot hide this from thee we are ready to perish our store is gone money spent shall we dye at thy foot for want of bread Take our Lands make us Servants but let us live This fear is the lasting Grace therefore as it is called The beginning of wisdom Prov. 1. 7. so the fear of the Lord said Job that is wisdom it self And Eccles. 12. 13. it is called the sum and final conclusi●n of the whole matter So that when God ●romiseth his people shall not depart from ●im he puts his fear into their hearts Two ●hings make us safe engaging God and the ●oul reciprocally His Love to us that he ●ill not depart from us to do us good and our ●●ar of him that wee shall not depart from ●im 3. This is the lowest and the abiding Grace ●hen Grace is at the lowest ebb As Cha●ity in Heaven so Fear on earth never fail 〈…〉 but when Prophesies fail and tongues 〈…〉 ase and faith languisheth fear remaineth ●s when the body is in a swoun there is no 〈…〉 ynt stirs the eye is shut or set breathing ●ot discerned pulse not felt yet there is 〈…〉 e because there is yet some warmth all 〈…〉 not cold and stiffe So when the soul is 〈…〉 he saddest desertion or under Tempta 〈…〉 on when there is no motion heavenward 〈…〉 ll to be discerned no affection no de 〈…〉 es no breathing as formerly in Prayer no 〈…〉 oving of the eye after a Promise or Christ 〈…〉 it Meat is refused Ordinances are un 〈…〉 oury yet well fare this precious grace of 〈…〉 ar the minimum quod sic the primum 〈…〉 ns ultimum moriens of the new Crea●e all is not dead the case is not desperate 〈…〉 keeps the soul warm from being stark cold and stiffe in sin I cannot say but yet I fear God I fear sin and I fear H●●● This is the description of a Christian in the lowest ebb Who is among you that feareth the Lord and obeyeth the voice of his Servant that walketh in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God 4. This is the constant frame of the new heart and the stamp of Gods workmanship in the new Creature I will put my fear into their hearts that they shall not depart from me There grace begins there it continues there it increaseth there it never departs nor ends This fear is to the soul as the pulse to the body Primum movens ultimum moriens moves with the first and to the last The least Infant strongest young man feeblest old man all have their pulse continually beating One hath no sight another no hearing another is lame another sleepeth and all the Senses fast bound but no living man but hath his pulse ever moving The godly soul sometimes mourneth sometimes rejoyceth sometimes believeth sometimes doubteth sometimes prayeth sometimes cannot pray but alwaie● feareth and blessed he that feareth alwayes Prov. 28. 14. We may say the same of this Grace o● Fear which the Philosopher of the Sense o● Feeling 1. It is ortu primus the fir●● thing that appears 2. Duratione ultimu 〈…〉 It continues longest begins with the beginning and endeth not til the end of life 3. Usu maximus sight hearing smelling tasting not so necessary to life without them there may be life but feeling gone life is gone so without many other gifts parts abilities and the exercise of other graces at present such may live never without this fear 4. Hominis optimus Man the best Creature hath the quickest touch other Creatures exceed man in the four other Senses and the best Christian the most fear 5. Yet as he saith of Tactus it is usu summus nobilitate ultimus it is the sense of the least Nobility We prefer an eye ear before it so this principal Grace of Fear is little esteemed it careth for us most we care for it least and we set it far behind Hope Joy Confidence when it may be better then them all 1. This informes us that all Christians are not of a stature nor are all Graces to be alwayes found in every Believer Some are Cedars in Lebanon some as the Hyssop by the wall or as bruised reeds Some as fatted Calves in the stall well fed well liking fat and fair and full of life and lightsomeness Some as chickens not fully hatched or as weak tender chickens that droop and hang the wing that need the warmth of the wing to cherish them Some godly souls are all their their life time subject to bondage and kept low with fears can never get over the fear of death yet the Apostle saith Christ hath delivered these Som 〈…〉 are shut up long in the Prison of unbelief y 〈…〉 God shuts them in and will let them out a 〈…〉 doth shut them up in Mercy God sh 〈…〉 them all up in unbelief that he may have mercy on all Unbelief is Gods Prison Presumtion Satans Palace better to be bound i● Gods prison then to dwel in Satans pa●lace Gods people are called his Prisoners Prisoners of hope his flock a Poor flock flock of slaughter in their own