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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

do warble and eccho out their cheerful notes to the praise of the Sun they build they breed they rejoyce many of them come stay returne with this their great Leader and Commander The waters wax warme and temperate there the fishes leap play breed and multiply But the Earth especially decked as a Bride to meet this Bridegroom cloatheth her selfe and all her family in new and divers coloured apparel and with their several New years Gifts present the worlds Benefactor with their Best that he may not come in vain to any of their dwellings Oh that wee were the Creatures Scholers or School-fellowes in this respect to acknowledge the benefits admire the perfections sing out the praises of this Sun of Righteousnesse and with our best Presents of Thankfulnesse and Fruitfulnesse shew we are loath to receive so much grace in vaine CHAP. XVII The likenesse of both in sundry Accidents WE are now come to the last thing wherein the agreement holds betweene these two Suns viz. certaine Accidents whereof 1. one greater 2. many lesse The greatest is that of the Eclipses which these two great Luminaryes are subject to The less●r Luminary the Sun sometimes loseth his light and Lustre and this greater Luminary hath sometimes lost the glory and brightness of his Godhead in his Exinanition and in that self emptying abasement of his Passion The Suns Eclipse is often and ordinary but this was extraordinary preternatural and but once 2. The Sun is never totally Eclipsed in part often His body being so many times bigger then the Moon 's interposed seven thousand times bigger cannot lose all his light So Christ might be in his Person eclipsed to the unbelieving Jewes by his poverty Cross and afflictions whereby he was made lower then the Angels when some others even then saw his glory as the glory of the Only Begotten of God full of Grace and Truth 2. In his Truth by Hereticks and prevailing Errors 3. In his Regal Power when persecuting enemies and Tyrants encroach on his Churches Liberty and his Prerogative breaking his bonds and the Churches hedg But he is never totally eclipsed because his power and grace doth more then seven thousand or ten thousand times exceed all Tyrants power Hereticks Policy persecuters rage and Satans malice 3. Yet was there once never but once a total Eclipse of the Sun extraordinary it was viz. at the time of Christ his Passion Christ never had the light of his Fathers countenance wholly suspended but then in Articulo Passionis when he cryed out Eli-Eli-Lama-sabactani Such an Eclipse never did nor can happen again then did it appear Christ set his Tabernacle in the Sun that was his Chariot or Apostle The Sunnes darknesse then enlightned the world and made the Philosopher cry out Deus naturae patitur aut mundi Machina dissolvitur Either the God of Nature is now suffering or the frame of the world is dissolving then both Suns suffered and were eclipsed together and went down at noon day the Sun of the Lord and that Lord of the Sun 4. The Suns Eclipse is only caused by the interposition of the Moons dark body which hath all her light from the Sun The Sun is then obscured and the new changed Moon never else seen by day then dare shew her self It is the only interposing the Churches dark body of sin and guilt made this Sun obscured She hath no light of her owne but borroweth of him and hee was content to lose all his glory protempore that his Church and every new changed converted soul may appear before God with boldness not otherwise able to abide the tryal of his presence 5. It is a sight sad to behold when the Sun is Eclipsed and it was the saddest day and hour of darknesse that ever was in the world when Christ was put to death 6. The Sun as to us seemeth to lose his light but as to Heaven gives more And Christ never shined more bright in Heaven never gave like satisfaction to God more Joy to Angels Glory to Saints then in his Passion Then did the pleasure of the Lord prosper in his hand He that was before pleased in his Person was now more pleased in his Passion In this only expiatory sacrifice did God smel a savor of rest This was to our Saviour a day of Triumph his Cross was the Trophy of his Victory and success whereon he was lifted up and exalted then was sin death hell swallowed up in Victory The dread of this Crosse triumphed over Hell spoyling all those principalities and thereby leading captivity captive The bloud of this Crosse tryumphed in Heaven Having made peace ●● the bloud of his Crosse Col. 1. 20. And th● Merit of his Crosse triumphed in the Church which ever since hath taken up those Angelical Hymnes Glory to God on high on eart● peace good will towards men Salvation 〈◊〉 ascribed to the Lamb that was slaine and glory to the Sun that was obscured This w●● the day wherein ou● great High Priest we● in his richest Robes into the Holy of Holies with his own bloud but bearing all o●● Names in his brest and all our iniquities o● his shoulder and hath made an everlastin● attonement or expiation and the greatest Holy day the world ever saw 7. The Sun eclipsed hath the same ligh● in it self is only hid from us for a while b●● recovers it self presently and shines again 〈◊〉 gloriously as before There may be mis● and darkness interposing between us and God between Christ and the Father none between the Sun and the earth the Moon between the Sun and heaven no Moon to interpose And changes there may seeme to b● between us and God between Christ and the Father all is well Satan might bruise his heel Herod Iews Pilate might reproach condemne crucifie bury set a guard about the Sepulcher But if it be said Who shall bind the influences of the Pleiades with what bonds of death 〈◊〉 〈…〉 t then possible to hold the Prince of life prisoner 8. Some great Scholers have said The Suns Eclipse bodes much ill to this lower world and that the sad effects thereof are such that the world is the worse for it seven years after ere it recover it self The truth whereof I 'l not dispute but certaine I am the sad effects of this Eclipse upon the Land of Iudea where it was most visible are not yet ●●ased but for this One thousand six hundred yeares it hath felt the miseries which followed on their Crucifying the Lord of Glory 9. Lastly The Suns Eclipse is said to Prognostick great changes downfal of Kingdomes and deaths of Tyrants c. Sure I am that this Eclipse did not foretel as a Prognostick but produce as the immediate cause the greatest changes in heaven and earth Then was Satan ruined this Eclipse was his bane When the Vyal of Gods wrath was poured on this Sun and hee had cryed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It is finished

soul prospereth 3 John 2 1 Hereby is more God honoured then by any other It shal it be to the Lord for a name for an everlasting sign that shal not be cut off 2 He that hath past out of nature into grace hath shot the great gulf and is in a safe state as to his soul. 3 God hath not undertaken the rich shall grow richer and that he who is now in honour shall abide in his honour but he hath undertaken to keep those whom he hath begun a good work in 4 This growth is alway in mercy others may be promoted in wrath as Pharaoh and Haman They may have their hearts desire with lean souls But this ever argues love in God and such as accompanies salvation 5 Where this growth is there shall bee another and greater shoot at death but in all other growthes there may bee an alteration a sad alteration at death They may spend their dayes in mirth and in a moment go down to hel Use 2 Reproof to three sorts 1 Such as grow not at all unlesse as a stake in the hedge more rotten ignorant vaine worldly profane they were and are no changelings they no Apostates this were a good Apostacy Luther gloried he was an Apostate from the Pope Ever learning never growing Thy child becomes a man and thou remainest a child Thou hast put off thy childish years not put away childish things It was a heavy curse when to the fig-tree it was said Never fruit grow on the● These are neer cutting down or burning up This was the property of the high way the worst ground of the four the rest had all some good in them which brought forth no fruit at all but seed and showres were all cast away upon it 2 Such who are worse then those who grow not at all who grow from evil to evil or worse and worse It is the curse of God upon Seducers to become worse and worse There is a growth of God Col. 2 19. this the growth of Satan from standing in the way to sit in the chair of scorners It was the glory of Josiah to outstrip all the Kings that were before him the contrary is said of Ahab There was none like to Ahab who sold himself to work wickednesse He was too bad at first his wife Jezabel made him worse his false Prophets worse still and Satan with that commission Go perswade prevail worse if worse could be How is hee growne to the highest pitch who now proclaims his sin and glories in it Ahab served Baal a little I will serve him much Cain killed a man saith Lamech and denyed it feared trembled cryed out his sin was too great and his punishment not to be born but saith he I neither deny the fact nor fear the punishment the murder committed grieves me not the hell threatned terrifies me not I only glory to think that I have got the name of the first three of all the Divels Worthies If Cain be punished seven fold then I trow Lamech a more notable adventurer for hel shall be punished seventy and seven fold In such the uncleane spirit goes and returnes with an Octas as Ir●naus saith of uncleane spirits then is the last state worse then the first 3 But there is a third basket of worse figs yet such as are growne from good to bad from seeming good to downright bad The washed Sow becomes again a wallowing Sow Hath not only left his love which is possible to a Believer for a time but lost and loatheth his former love turnes again to his vomit repents of nothing more then of his former repe●tance was once enlightned had a taste found a liking felt the power of the good Word and the force and horror of judgment to come but is gone back and now sins willfully after receit of this knowledg of the Truth Judas a young Apostle an old Apostate Iuvenis Discipulus senex Diabolus A young Disciple never Saint an old Divel The case of none is so sad God oweth these a shame and wil pay it them home to their face These lay a stumbling block in the way of others and God layes one in their way and they fall usually into some notorious sin that layes them open to the world as Saul Iudas Hymenaeus Alexander Ananias Nicholas the Deacon These are Trees twice dead plucked up by the roots Double children of hell above any others and become usually Pros●lyte-Makers for Satan who maketh of these fugitive Professors the chief Janizaries to guard his person and enlarge his Kingdom How disparingly above all others do these men dye Saul Iudas Spira how fearful was their end This is the only way to that sin against the Holy Ghost As we said before grace mounts up to perfection by degrees from small beginnings so is sin perfected by as unsensible degrees There is a beginning in the spirit first an Illumination then Conviction then Faelix his fear then Aggrippas halfe Conversion an outward restraint or partial reformation a bold avowing and open professing the doctrine of grace as Alexander an attentive hearing with Herod a flashy rejoycing as the stony ground a temporary believing praying joyning going in and out Thus far they run well but here they stand from standing still to declining from declining to discontinuance of holy duties they will not pray this morning they wil at even at even to morrow from discontinuance to indisposednesse from indisposednesse to dislike from dislike to enmity from enmity to scorning from scorning to persecuting then to impenitencie then to all uncleannesse with greedinesse then to despaire and there we leave them 3 Use. Examine what growth is there in us if we see none then certainly we are neither such as ever truly feared Gods name or ever had Christ risen upon us It is manifest many grow not 1. The nation generally is growne a degenerate Vine which was at first a noble plant We are worse then our fathers as the Lord complaines The good generation is worne out and the better figs are carryed away They joyed when the Manna first fell we grow weary of it The word of the Lord was to them precious to us it is become a reproach they desired to see the things wee see we desire the holy one to depart from us They grow as the Calfe in the stall we as the untamed heifer or as the back-sliding heifer 2 Professors in particular grow not better but worse in shadow not substance in light as the increasing Moon which grows bigger and bigger lighter and lighter not hotter and hotter as the Morning Sun which goes higher and higher and growes hotter and hotter It is an ill growth when we grow in stalk not ear in straw not corne When trees run up in stature and put out leaves and blossomes without fruit Many grow colder and colder as old David for his body Ordinances can keep