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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

saith our Saviour of himselfe I am come a Light into Ioh. 12. 46 the World that no Beleever should abide in darknesse Such is the glory of the Diety brighter then the Lights of heaven The glory of this light Ecclus. Ioel 1. 10. His eyes ten thousand times clearer then the Sun and cloathed with unspeakeable Majestie That the earth doth quake before him the heavens tremble the Moone be darkned and the stars withdraw their light Then how shall sinfull man behold him whose foundation is but dust When Christ was transfigured upon the Mount his Visage there Mat. 17. 2. as glorious as the Sunne and his cloathing as white as the Light his Disciples were afraid and fell to the earth When Acts 9. 8. Revel 1. 9. he appeared in the way to Damascus Saul was stricken blind with his Brightnesse And when Saint Iohn saw him in the I le of Pathmos in the likenesse of the Sonne of man with a garment downe to his feet his eyes being as a flaming fire his feet as moulten brasse and his face shining as the Sun in his strength he fell downe at his feet for dead In his presence shall the people Ioel 2. 6. tremble and the countenance of all waxe blacke so that wee may say with those men of Bethshemish whom God had 2 Sam 6 29. smitten for looking in the Arke who is able to stand before the Lord If those that have knowledge live two lives whereas others live but one then doubtlesse every man is halfe dead like him Luc. 10. v. 30. that fell amongst the theeves our understanding is unsinewed and the powers of our soules are out of joynt so dimd whilst we looke through the cloud of Nature that wee see no better then he in the Gospell that could not discerne a man from a Mar. 8. 24. tree But God who is rich in mercy towards us frameth his This glory opened in parables and similies Greatnesse to our capacity shewing his Goodnesse in speaking to our senses and that Man may know him in some measure He will be knowne unto us as man by his parts as eyes cares and the like his affections as Anger Love and Sorrow his Titles as King Lord and Father whereas He is infinite incomprehensible that filleth full the heaven Ier. 23. 24. and the earth Totum quod vides totum quod non vides And Christ to insinuate himselfe into us to leave the deeper impression in our hearts so often openeth himselfe in Parables that were they as strangers unto you I could leade you into acquaintance with them throughout the whole course of his Doctrine Sometimes stiling himselfe a Sower sometimes Mat. 13. Ioh 10. 11. Mat. 9. 12. Ioh. 15. 1. Ioh. 10. 7. Ioh. 14. 6. Rom. 1. 20. a Shepheard sometimes a Physitiar sometimes a Vine sometimes a Doore sometimes the Way the truth and the Life Notioribus ignota discuntur Spiritualia per similitudines as Gods eternall power and Godhead are seene and understood by his workes David in the 68. Psalme being there to make a description how God was praised in his Sanctuarie the fuller to set it forth to the Life as the troope that leads before some Prince This Glory resembled by Light Ver. 25. 27. awakens an earnest expectation doth marshall out the array thereof with the Singers going before with the Minstrels following after with the Damosels in the midst playing with Timbrels with little Benjamin their Ruler with the Princes of Iuda their Councell the Princes of Zabulon and the Princes of Nepthalie And Saint Iohn in his first Epistle intending to 1 Ioh 1. 1. c. comprize a briefe abridgement of the whole scope and Doctrine of the Gospell to extract and sublimate the Quintessence thereof rankes out a faire companie to walke before and to rouse up dull attention like the Chaine that was tyed to the tongue of Mercurie and fastned to the eares of the people with that which was from the beginning which we have heard which we have seene and our hands have handled of the word of Life And againe the Life was manifest and we have seene it and shew it unto you And againe that which we have seene and heard that we write and declare unto you untill at length he openeth this rich Cabinet and shewes us this illustrious Gemme That God is Light and in him is no darkenesse And thus as Salomon in his Temple He presents you with a faire and beautifull entrie as a preparative to your devotion to stirre up a zealous admiration and to wonder at the inward glory That God is Light and in Him is no darknesse Plato and the heathen Philosophers that were directed by the eye of nature viderunt illi suisque literis copiosissime mandaverunt hinc illos unde nos fieri beatos obiecto quodam lumine De Civit. Dei l. 10. c. 2. intelligibili quod Deus est illis as saith Saint Augustine Hence the Prophets were named Seers and mens humana patibilis dicitur as Zab. in his tract de mente agente because our Light Iam. 1. 17. is from above and commeth down from the Father of Lights Beleeve Ioh. 12 36. therefore in the Light that ye may be children of the Light As Light was the first borne of all things visible so was it Christ the Light not without a mystery that for the distinction of the six first dayes God closed them up with this phrase of speech The Evening and the Morning were the first day and the Evening and the Morning were the second day and so on in the rest of the dayes whereas Nature gives the birthright to the morning But he foreseeing in his infinite prescience that wretched man within few houres should cast himselfe headlong into darkenesse doth intimate unto us thereby that first should be the Night of mans misery and then should follow the Day of our redemption by sending of his sonne Christ Iesus God of God Light of Light very God of very God And This light was that true light which lighteth every Ioh 1. 19. man that comes into the world Of all the Metaphors the world affords none so fit an Embleme of Christ as Light which is the ioy of the eyes and the Pro. 13. 30. true comforter of the heart although continuance and assiduity makes us behold it with lesse admiration Amongst those foure good Mothers that doe nurse and Van of the eye cap. 4. The excellency of the Light cherish up foure bad daughters as Vertue Envy Peace I al●nesse and Truth Hatred Familiarity brings forth Contempt And hence it is as one well observes that those things which we most feare and reverence are most removed from our sight Perseverantia consuetudinis amisit admirationem the daily use of this glorious creature doth make it the lesse to be admired When King and Kesar old and yong high and low rich and

observed in the motion of the Sphaeres if they should not be stayd and slackned by the contrary course of the primum mobile that they would set the whole on fire And it is true in the nature of zeale not being moderated with discretion it soone sets all in a combustion Fervor discretionem erigat Bern. discretio Fervorem dirigat God that made all things with the breath of his mouth and accomplished his sixe dayes worke in the temperate season of the Equinoctiall appeared to Adam in the coole of the Zanch de oper creat part 2. l. 1. c. 2. Psal 104. 4. Zanch ubi supra Ionah 4. 1. c. day He that made his Angels spirits and his Ministers a flaming fire when he made the Light and the Stars tempered the Light with moisture and made the Stars of a watry substance And though he be a God of vengeance yet when the rebellious Prophet Ionah had so much the over-flowing of the Gall as to be angry with his dreadfull power he reprehends him with as much indulgence as if the tendrest father in the world were to deale with his dearest sonne and shall we bruse the broken reede shall we quench the smoaking flaxe Oh let the Mat. 12 20. Psal 141. 5. righteous correct me friendly but let not their precious balmes breake mine head let us handle the wounds of our Brethren with gentlenesse and the Bowels of compassion let us bring pitty in our eyes and hearts when we chance to see their fals and infirmities and let us remember the rule of Saint Paul Gal. 6. 1 Brethren if any man be prevented in sinne yee then which are spirituall restore such a one in the spirit of meekenesse considering thy selfe lest thou also be tempted Now for the Snuffes of the former Lights sending forth Ignis Fatuus an unsavory smell out of the lowermost Socket of the Ayre First to speake of Ignis Fatuus or the Lay-Elder here like unto some simple Swaine at a portentous and prodigious Meteor seldome seene in the world of his Hemisphere so I cannot but stand at a gaze to see the Starres to drop from the firmament to see the light to be turned into darknesse to see the Priests to be cloathed with shame so many and so well nurtured that have suckt milke with us from the same brests to be mis-led into that discipline by the which an Artificer may be made an Elder and of a Tradsman become a Church-man We may lament them with the wife of Phinees when 1 Sam 4. 21. the Arke was taken by the Philistims and shee named her child Ichabod The glory of Israel is taken from them This Ignis Fatuus this Lay Brother by their Imposition of hands shall have the misleading of a Band of soules as the Deuill the lunaticke in the Gospell sometimes through fire Mar. 17. 15. sometimes through water and yet as Aventine once of some such Si praelati isti plebei essent nemo facile ipsis haram Avent de reb Tur. par 3. committeret in illo vero statu arae et animae hominum ipsorum fidei creduntur It was commanded by the Law Leviticall that no blinde Levit. 22. 22. creature should be offred to God how then shall the blinde lead the blind unlesse it be in praecipitium Like unto that Cretensian Berg. Hist Fasc Temp. Iew in the yeere of our Lord 450 who saying hee was Moses sent from heaven to conduct his brethren through the Sea into Iury as before hee had done out of Aegypt caused them to commit themselves unto the waves where they were all drowned like Pharaoh and his host Yet these will torment a Text of Scripture manage a long and monstrous discourse conceived and borne in the same instant wrest and pervert the word of God and instead of the naturall milke thereof sucke out the blood of mis-interpretation as farre distant from the true meaning as was that ridiculous Actor in Smyrna pronouncing O Coelum with his mouth and with his finger pointing to the ground The Coppersmith will be bold to controule Paul 2 Tim. 4. 14. Act. 19. 24. Demetrius the Silversmith will oppose the whole Church and the Cobler find fault with the thigh of the picture Frange leves calamos scinde Thalia libelles Mart. Si dare sutori caloeus ista potest There is a Rout of their followers a generation described The condition of the Faction Pro. 30. 12. by Solomon that are pure in their owne eyes and yet they are not washed from their sinnes Let me shew you the pourtrait of them as they are drawne out to the life by another and so printed to the view of the world They are saith mine Author the scumme of the Commons Doctor Wakeman Ser. True professor the tags and rags of the people base mechanicks men of little knowledge lesse honesty and no discretion at all In their attempts pragmaticall in their humour phantasticall in their profession Pharisaicall in their bookes hypocriticall in their opinions Anabaptisticall in their Doctrine schismaticall in their words Angelicall in their deeds Diabolicall But what should I tell you de asini umbra or hold you in discourse of this Brainsicke Frie I le only haile Ignis lambent and so wee le strike sayle and come a shore Such is the nature of many men that having some secret Ignis Lambens and beloved sinne which is as neere as deere unto them as was the sonne of the Bondwoman to Abraham when hee praied for his life and prosperity Oh that Ismael might live in Gen. 17 18. thy sight They can with Herod heare Iohn Baptist so that hee would not touch upon Herodias These men are likened to Apes and Monkies which breake the glasses that they looke into because they shew them their owne deformities so that it often fals out with them as the Prophet speakes Zach 11. 8. Three Shepherds I put out of office in one month for I might not away with their doctrine And yet for all Michah will Iud. 17. have his Levite Scit Comitem horridulum ●rita donare lacerna Et verum inquit amo verum mihi dicito de me Qui pote Pers Sat. 5. How can that be when they say unto the Seers see not and to them that be cleare of iudgement Ies 30. 10. looke not out right things for us but speake placentia leasings unto us As the Devill dealt with Christ when he tooke advantage Mat. 4. 2. of his hunger so there want not unto these some that are left of the old house of Eli that will come and crooch for a peece 1 Sam. 2. 36. of siluer and to bee put in office amongst the Priests these men may be compared to Surgeons that though they have not the hearts of Lions to put their Probes home to the quicke yet they have the hands of Ladyes enured to Complexions and Paintings and to daube with untempered morter to the Polypus that is so Ezech. 13. 10. Aelian de var. hist lib. 1. Eze. 13. 18. 19. variable taking the colour from the rocke he cleaves to to those Daughters of Hierusalem or to those roguing Gypsons of our times that pollute the people and kill their soules for handfuls of Barly and peeces of bread to those five and twenty men in the Prophet that did turne their backs towards the Temple Ezech. 8. 16. and worshiped with their faces towards the East casting the word of God behinde them and aiming at nothing but their Psal 50. 17. owne rising These are the Deuill in Samuels mantle Ignis Lambens dissembling Parasites glavering Temporizers Trencher Chaplains that will lingere sputum become all things unto all men so that they may please some men It is an observation of Ioab that though he were a valiant Captaine yet was he not reckoned amongst Davids Worthies 1 Chron. 11. because hee betrayed Amasa with a kisse much lesse 2 Sam. 2. 9. shall the Lord of David write those names in the Booke of Life that kisse and bite and yet cry peace like those Prophets Phil. 4. 3. in the third of Micheas ver 5. He whose Lip is full of indignation his Tongue a consuming Ies 30. ver 17. 30. 33. fire and his Breath like a river of Brimstone shall cause his glorious voyce to be heard and shall declare his stretched out arme against those that have sweet tongues and make the people erre by their flatteries Ier. 23 31. 32. And this be spoken of those Meteors that do hang betwixt Heaven and Earth I should now come to the Angels of the Conclusion Revel 1. 20. Churches those Starres that are in the right hand of him that stood in the middest of the Golden Candlesticke but then I should overflow my sands Like a Labourer I have digged the foundation and I have 1 Cor. 39. 10. 11. laid it upon Christ Iesus I have removed all the Rubbish in the description of these Apparitions I have I hope made a faire way for some other Aholiab or Bezaleel for the finishing of the rest of the Building Exod. 31. 2. Now being cut off by the tyranny of Time I le end as I began out of 2 Macc. If I have done well I have done what I Cap. 15. ver 38 should if otherwise it is the best I could and according to the time allotted unto me In the meane while consider what is said and the 2 Tim. 2. 7. Lord give you understanding in all things Amen * ⁎ * FINIS December 16. 1632. PErlegi hanc concionem cui titulus A Sermon preached at a Visitation in Lincolneshire by Michael Wigmore Rector of Thorseway in Lincolneshire and sometime Fellow of Oriell Colledge in Oxford una cum Epistolâ nuncupatoria ad honoratissim Dom. Magni Sigill Custod qui quidem liber continet paginas 15. in quibus nihil reperio bonis moribus aut sanae doctrinae contrarium aut quicquam aliud quo minus cum utilitate publicâ Imprimatur modo intra tres menses proxime sequentes typis mandetur Gulielmus Haywood Episco Londin Capell domest