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A25887	A great wonder in heaven, or, A lively picture of the militant church drawn by a divine pencill : Revel. 12, 1, 2 : discoursed on in a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at Margarets, Westminster, on the last monethly fast-day, January 27, 1646/7 / by John Arrowsmith ...	Arrowsmith, John, 1602-1659.	1647 (1647)	Wing A3776; ESTC R441	30,018	49

tribulation and in the Kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ was in the Isle that is called Patmos for the Word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ I was in the Spirit on the Lords day 'T is thought that all contained in this book was revealed to him on that one day Who ever spent a Sabbath so well who ever had so many discoveries in so short a time how was his banishment sweetned herewith and his Patmos turned into a paradise How excellent is thy loving kindness O Lord how glorious are thine influences upon suffering Saints what Psalmes doth Dauid indite in the cave what Epistles doth Paul write in the prison what apparitions doth John see in a desolate Island there appeared A great wonder The more lightsome any thing is the more glorious the more glorious any thing is the more wonderfull Glorious things are spoken of thee ô thou Citie of God sayth the Psalmist of the Church which is therefore a great wonder because all the Luminaries of heaven concur to the making up of the glory thereof and that in a posture sutable to the stations they hold in the firmament There the highest lights are the stars the lowest the Moon the Sun in the midst So here the stars are allotted to the Churches head the Moon to her feet the Sun to those parts of the body that are between both She is all over glorious and consequently altogether admirable because lightsome all over for her head is crowned with stars her body apparelled with the Sun and she hath the Moon for her footstool so as to tread in paths of light If any here discern no glory in the Church to be wondred at but say of her as they of Christ Isa. 53. 2. she hath no form or comlinesse and when we shall see her there is no beauty that we should desire her it is not for want of light in her but of spirituall sight in them A skilfull painter to an ignorant man that wondred at his gazing so much on a curious peece sayd Friend Si meos oculos haberes hadst thou myne eyes thou wouldst be ravished with the sight of this picture as I am and instead of wondring at mee fall a wondring with me So if wee had the eyes and spirit of John the Church of Christ would appear a great wonder to us as it did to him A great wonder in heaven We read of a door opened in heaven and of a call that John had to come up thither Chap. 4. 1. That was the Scene of all his Visions there did this great wonder appear to his mentall eyes And well it might seeing the Church whose hieroglyphick it is hath her originall from heaven her tendency to heaven her conversation in heaven and her dependance upon heaven 1 Her originall from heaven Except a man be born {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which may be rendred from above he shall not see the kingdom of God John 3. 3. Converts are all born of God John 1. 13. and Jerusalem which is above is the mother of them all Gal. 4. 26. Mihi patria Coelum may be the motto of every Saint during his pilgrimage in the World Heaven is my Country there I was born and I am returning thither which is the next thing 2 Her tendency to heaven Those Martyrs and Confessors Heb. 11. 14 16. declared plainly that they sought an heavenly country All Saints as Saints naturally move to this centre of rest and because their motion is naturall it commonly proves swiftest at last As the approches of a needle are so much the more quick by how much it draws neerer to the loadstone and rivers run with a stronger stream when they are about to empty themselves into the Ocean whence they came so true beleevers when their bodies smell most of earth as towards death they are wont to doe have the strongest sent of heaven in their souls 3 Her conversation in heaven Phil. 3. 20. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the phrase imports their living and trading as denizens of heaven there being governed by the locall statutes and municipall Laws of that City their conversing with God in Christ and having fellowship with the Spirit here below whence it is that when death comes the godly are sayd to change their place but not their company 4 Her dependance upon heaven knowing as she doth that every good and perfect gift is from above Jam. 1. 17. she accordingly expects from thence supplies of grace to help in every time of need When the German Princes in a Diet at Norimberg had framed certain Decrees against the Protestant cause Luther comforted himselfe and his Patron the Duke of Saxony to whom he wrote with this weighty consideration That the Princes at Norimberg had concluded one thing in that businesse but God had decreed another in heaven and the Counsell of the Lord that should stand Let us now proceed to shew more distinctly what this great wonder in heaven was viz. A woman {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a married woman That 's the importance of the word in other places as in Chapter 21 of this book Verse 9 Come hither and I will shew thee the bride the Lambs wife {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Yea the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the decency of the allegory requires it should be so taken here because we finde the woman with childe and in her travell Being so taken it imports a mystery one of the greatest in all Divinity viz. the Churches relation to Christ as her husband Paul who was well skild in Gospel-secrets to which the depths of other Sciences are but shallows gives the title of great only to two Evangelicall mysteries that of our Saviours incarnation 1 Tim. 3. last Without controversie great is the mystery of godlinesse God manifest in the flesh and this of the Churches mariage to Christ Ephes. 5. 31 32 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joyned unto his wife and they two shall be one flesh This is a great mystery but I speake concerning Christ and the Church That which was one of Pauls great mysteries might well be part of Johns great wonder But I forbeare to inlarge upon 't because I hasten to a discovery of this womans rare perfections the first whereof is her being Clothed with the Sun That which some Platonists say hath savour in it Lumen est umbra Dei Deus est lumen luminis The light is but the shadow of God God is he that inlighteneth light it selfe Now of all visible lights there is none so radiant as the Sun Scripture accordingly styleth God a Sun and a shield Psal. 84. 11. and Christ is called the Sun of righteousnesse Mal. 4. 2. He it is and no other person or thing whom we are to understand by the Sun in my Text The resemblances are many Christ