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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

coming to judgement when the Trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise and all appeare before the Judgement-seat of Christ All this must come to passe and all this may be comprized in our comprehensive prophecie in the Text The Sun of righteousnesse shall arise with healing in his wings x See a Tract of Mr. Geerings call'd A discovery of the vanity or iniquity of Iudiciall Astrology Published 1646. 5. And lastly reject other Prophecies Predictions which insnare many soules in our dayes the Devill never drove such a trade as now when many Professors are not ashamed nor afraid to enquire of his Oracles touching publick or private affaires y Leovitius in admonit de usu Astrologiae Erasmus and z Aulus Gellius lib. 14. cap. 1. in sine Phavorinus disputing against Astrologians conclude all Prognostications and Predictions unprofitable saying if they foretell joyfull news they decrease our future pleasures if evill tydings they increase our present pain the feare of danger being often worse then the danger it selfe besides this all Predictions of this kinde are vaine uncertain and ambiguous and misse oftner then hit but above all they are sinfull and unlawfull either in the maker or receiver and God will set his face against such Lev. 20.6.2 Par. 10.13.2 Reg. 1.16 Peep not therefore into the Arke of Gods secrets be willing to goe Gods pace do not outrun Providence but wait wait I say on the Lord and so much of that point And thus having handled the Prediction of Christ I now come to the Description of him The Sun c. The second Doctrine is this that Jesus Christ is that glorious Sun Doct. 2d that with so much resplendent lustre shines out upon the Church For 1. The Sunne is of a communicative nature he doth not contract his beames and confine them within it selfe but diffuses and scatters and spreads his rayes o're the world the Sunne is the fountaine of light and it inlightens the Moone and Starres and whole universe The Lord Jesus is of such a nature Psal 84.11 The a Apud Deum quidē est sons vitiae justitae virtutis sapientiae at sons nobis occultus inaccessas sed horum omniū copta nobis in Christo exposita fuit ut inde petere lic●at ultro enim ad nos fluere paratus est si modo transitū illi fide demus Cal. Lord is a Sunne and a Shield the Lord will give grace and no good thing will he withhold from them that walke uprightly Marke he no sooner calls God in Christ a Sun but he talkes of giving and withholding nothing And indeed he makes all the Creatures participant of his goodnesse he gives forth his light unto the Saints who are called Starres Dan. 12.13 The lesser vesseils are filled by him and of his fullnesse wee all receive Grace for Grace Christ hath a sea of Grace and glory able to fill all our channells like the oyntment saith Martin b Hoc adūbratum est per Aaronem qui d●● in Sacerdo●ē consecraretur perfusus est oleo super caput quod praenimiâ abūdantiâ in barbam oram vestimenti ejus defluxit sic c. Mart. Bucer Joan. 1.16 Bucer which being poured out on Aarons head trickled downe to his Beard and the very hemme of his garment So that divine and rich anoynting of the Spirit which was in such abundance poured out upon our head Christ flowes down to all his members God in Christ is a generall a communicative good the word here used is Schemesch the Minister of God viz. the Sunne which imparts and ministers light heat for the word c Sam. Torsh in Mal. 4.2 saith Torshel is of Schamasch to serve or minister to God or men according as the Syriack version of the new Testament useth this word Matth. 20.28 The Sonne of Man came not that he might be ministred unto but Deneschtammesch * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that hee might minister Christ doth benignly impart grace and glory a Fountain he is and that opened Zach. 13.1 2. The manner is observable the Sun communicates his beames freely suddenly impartially abundantly so doth Christ freely d Sol non expectat preces sed statim refulget omnibus videntibus lucem vitvmque affert ita Christus prior dilexit nos cum inimici essemus praevenit sponteque sua maximis beneficiis ditavit ditat Corn. a Lapide in Mal. 4.2 they are not brought by violēce or attractives or any art or diligence of man but come of their owne free motion and surely all that Christ doth is freely without money or without price he justifies without the concurrence or help of our merits he is not moved by any thing in us but his own good will and pleasure e Beneplaciti nomen omnia merita diserte excludit Calv. Ephes 1.5 2 Tim. 1.9 Rom. 11.6 Object I but the violent take heaven by force Sol. 'T is certaine but this force is not offered on God but themselves and the world f Violentes rapere regnum coelorum est regni Christi cupiditate adeo flagrare ut vitam omnia quis contemnat modo particiceps sit Evangelii regni coelorum civis Mart. Bucer in Matth. 11.12 whereby they master all impediments and difficulties that else would hinder them from heaven and this not in their own strength but Christs Next the Sun communicates his beams suddenly many times in an instant Have you not seen the Sun mufled with clouds suddenly shew himselfe and in the twinkling of an eye disperse his beames Christ also can suddenly give out comfort to the soule not g Luke 17.24 onely his second comming in glory but his comming in grace may bee compared to lightning which flashes suddenly h Nihil fulgore celerius Erasmus in Matth. 24.27 So Erasmus and Calvin expound Matth. 24.27 The Gospell was suddenly scattered or'e the world grace and joy is oftentimes suddenly infused into the heart 'T is said i Psalm 85.8 God will speak peace unto his people q. d. Look how easily and quickly you can speake a word and with like facility and celerity can Christ give his grace and let out the discoveries of himselfe to us Thou that hast long waited for comfort remember this Christ can and may suddenly shew himselfe unto you when you are ripe for comfort and his set time is come to doe it he will not be long about it comfort may come next moment We are but Praecones Criers Publishers of the Gospels glad tidings but your inward peace and rest must drop from the clouds 'T is a new creation and if God say of a dark soul Let there be light there shall be light and that suddenly nay Christ can cure Nations in an instant k Jer. 18.7 Jer. 18.7 'T is but giving the wheele a turne and the Potter can new make us for wee are as clay in his hands and

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

Funerall and inutterable howling of innumerable Spirits on the Sea-shore when the Marriner advised by a voyce pronounced these words Great PAN is dead The truth of which was avouched by Thamus Eph. 4.8 and others that heard it before Tiberias Caesar as Plutarch saith k Quid est captivavit captivitatem vicit mortem Mortem procuravit Diabolus et ipse Diabolus de morte Christi est captivatus Augustinus Christs death gave that blow to the head of the old Serpent which renders him a conquered enemy In this skirmish he smote all our enemies on the cheek bone bringing them to perpetuall shame and spoyling Principalities and Powers so that this was a joyfull rising to the world 3. Christ the Sun of righteousnesse may be literally said to rise to the world at his Glorious Resurrection from the dead 'T is said Mark 16.2 that the Maries came to the Sepulcher at the rising of the Sun Indeed two glorious Suns were risen that day for an Angel said unto them come see the place where the Lord lay Christ is not here but is risen This was much for Christs glory for hereby he declared himselfe to be the Sonne of God He seemed to be under a cloud in his Passion saith one l Sam. Torshell on the Text. pag. 82. but brake forth in his Resurrection and that by his m Nonpotestate precariâ sed virtute propriâ ut victor prodiit de Sepultur â. Bern. de Resurrect Christ Qui Agnus extuerat in passione factus est Leo in Resurrectione Idem Vide Ambrose in Joh. lib. 24. cap. 26. own power he suffered as a Lamb but rose as a Lyon saith Bernard And the● his Resurrection was for our good that wee might be assured of Remission and n Christus solus resurrexit sed non totus Bernard rise up with him to newnes of life Rom 25. He rose again for our justification not that any part of the Price of our Redemption was unpayed at his Passion but that our deliverance was not manifested till then God would never have let him out of the prison of the Grave but that all the debt was pay'd And if Christ were not risen then is your faith vaine and you are of all men most miserable saith Paul 4. Christ may be said literally to rise at his blessed Ascension Luke 24.51 Whilst he lift up his hands and blessed them he was parted from them and carried up into Heaven Having finisht his Fathers worke he is exalted in our o Dum naturam humanam syderibus Christus importavit cr●dentibus cielum patere posse monstravit Aug. in Act. Nature to consecrate a way and prepare a plane for us p Bish usher in his Body of Divinity he hath taken with him the paw●e of our flesh and left with us the earnest of his Spirit Our Head is ascended and all wee his members shall follow which is an unspeakable comfort to Beleevers Secondly 2. Mystically or spiritually as Christ the Sun of righteousnesse may be said properly and literally to rise to the world these foure wayes so he may be said to arise mystically and spiritually to the world and that three wayes When the Gospel is preached Church defended and the world judged 1. When the Gospel is preached and Christ comes in the purity and power of hi● Ordinances 1 Joh. 2.8 The darknesse is past and the true light now shines viz. The Gospel But see Luk. 1.78 Zachary in his Song prophesied of Christ That he should give knowledge of salvation to his people through the tender mercy of our God whereby the Day-spring from on high hath visited us to give light to them that sit in darknesse and in the shadow of Death and guide their feete into the way of peace This place q Jun. Paral. lib. 1. par 50. Junius and r Dan. Heinsius exercit ad Luc. 1.78 lib. 3. cap. 1. Heinsius parallells with the Text Paul expresses it plainly 2 Cor. 4.4 The Devill blinds the eyes of them that beleeve not least the light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ who is the image of God should shine upon them See Psal 102.16 2. When his Church is defended and his people prosper in the world when beleevers shall inherit the Earth and Civill Powers come into godly hands Then doth Christ arise on a Nation then is the Sunne seene in the Mount Isa 66.5 They that hated you shall be cast out and the Lord shall appeare to your joy and they shall be ashamed The Sun will arise o're the Hills Christ will appeare to your joy c. ſ Verum hic agi de secundo Christi advētu patet ex praetedentibus sequentibus quae omnia expectāt ad diē judicii Nam sicut Sol obscura illuminat videnda et confpicua oculis ommum exhibct sic Chrisius piorū virtut●m justitiam quae in hâc vitâ ab imptis obscurabatur in die judicii illustrao●t clarificabit toti orbi conspicuam gloriosam exhibebit Corn. a Lapide in Malac. 4.2 Pag. 355. 3. When the world is judged and Christ comes in all his Glory at the last day This Jerome and a Lapide think to be the meaning of the Text for as the rising of the Sun discovers the things that lay hid so Christ at the day of Judgement will open the secrets of all hearts he will come in flaming fire and so astonish and dazle the eyes of his enemies 2 Sam. 12 12. So here you see how Christ doth arise unto the world literally and mystically I see not but Malachy might respect all this and prophesie of Christs whose administration from his Nativity till his rendring up of the Kingdome to his Father * When Christ riseth in a soule Secondly When Christ the Sun of righteousnesse may be said to arise in a soule I answer When he comes in an inlightning renewing and quickning manner to the soule 1. Christ may be said to arise upon a soule when he comes to inlighten and informe it when light breaks into the mind 2 Pet. 1.19 Wee doe well in taking heed to the Word till the Day-starre that is Christ Rev. 22.16 arise in our hearts Till then though t Non omnes qu●● 〈◊〉 scriptu●●● admirand●●nt ●●usi●● rant nisi qui coelesti splendore gratià ●otiuntur Basil incircled with Gospel discoveries our u Rom. 1.21 foolish hearts will be darkned but when Christ whom the Prophet calls the Sunne and Peter the Starre that ushers in the Sunne when he I say shall arise with in us in our hearts to give us sanctified and experimentall insight into the things of Heaven then indeed wee shall be taught to purpose and know w 1 Pet. 2.9 all things 2. Christ ariseth in a soule when he comes to renew and transforme it when he suddenly works a change within and all things become new new Principles new Projects new resolutions How