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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

his own Righteousnesse all his Righteousness shall not be remembred Better no Righteousnesse at all then so much as to trust in Be not righteous overmuch Wee pity the ignorance of such as make the Creed a Prayer they are as much to blame who make the Decalogue a Creed Our best Righteousness makes but a bad Saviour It may be an evidence of Sanctification not an Advocate for Justification not the Surety for our Satisfaction but our Security for our Sanctification When the Moon full of her owne light goes from the Sun she loseth all and when in her wain she approacheth the Sun and keepeth following him she reneweth and increaseth her light againe to a fulness 2. There is a good Righteousness whereof there be four kinds or degrees 1. The Philosophical 2. Pharisaical 3. Evangelical 4 Divine or Righteousness of God Two of these are External two Internal all of them together make perfectly righteous before God and men 1 The first and lowest Righteousness is that we call Civil Moral or Philosophical The Righteousness of Nations taught in their Schools and practised in their Polities This alone is enough to make one to become bonus Civis but is the lowest ingredient which joyned with the other three makes also the bonus Christianus This is not to be spoken against the world is not so full of it The Prophet complaineth that God had a Controversie with his people for want of moral honesty There is neither Mercy nor Truth nor knowledg of God in the Land but swearing ●ying killing stealing and committing Adultery and bloud touching bloud Say not this is Heathenish Divinity it is Christian too but is their highest point in Divinity and our lowest where theirs ends ours is to begin It is not to be neglected then but outstripped neither to be rested in nor laid aside The Heathen shall sooner be saved with this then the Christian without it 2. of Duties Matth. 5 20. That Philosophical this Pharisaical that good this better that the effect of the Law unwritten unless on the stony Table of Mans heart this of the Law written in Tables of stone This we call legal Righteousness or Righteousness of Works which is not to be spoken against neither but countenanced Religion teacheth not to lay aside Holy Duties but perform them better not to fail in one but abound in all not to call any Duty or Commandment little This was the Righteousness of Zachary and Elizabeth who walked in all the Ordinances of God blamelesse Of this the Apostle speaketh He that doth Righteousness is righteous 3. The third Righteousness is of Graces This an inward Righteousnesse better then both the former and that which commends them This the Evangelical Righteousness made up of Evangelical Graces Faith Love Repentance Obedience good Conscience c. This the Righteousness of the Gospel or Law of Faith This exceeds the Righteousness of Philosophers and of Scribes and Pharisees They had the outward works of the Law without an inward work of Grace But this Righteousness Grace advanceth and urgeth The grace of God which bringeth Salvation teacheth us that denying ungodlinesse and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present evil world And Rom. 5. ult Grace doth raign by righteousness to eternal life Yield your members servants to Righteousness unto Holiness 4. The fourth and best of all is the Righteeusness of faith or the Righteousness of Christ which commendeth all the former and exceeds them This is called the Righteousness of God for three Reasons 1 Wrought by the Son of God 2. Accepted by the Father 3. Applyed by the Spirit of God The Christians garment is made up of these four the three first insufficient without this We must not as the Souldiers make four of one but one of four dividing these and take each one of us a part the Heathen Civility Pharisees duty the Professors Piety and the Believers imputed Righteousnesse but make up a whole garment of these four quarters as the Israelites garment was to be and bound about with one border or fringe of sincerity Christ and all his followers are cloathed alike he in white sitting on a white horse Revel 19. 11. They so ver 14 And the Lambs wife hath the same garment also all in white this difference only that Christ his Garments are white as snow or wool native undied the purest white ours of linnen not white naturally but made so by washing These have washed their garments in the bloud of the Lamb and made them white CHAP. XX All the godly are such as fear the name of God BUt to you that fear my name Here we come to the third thing from the dedescription of Christ to the description of the Christian. 1. When they are at worst Such as fear his name 2. When at the best Such as grow as Calves in the Stall From the former our Observation is That it is the constant disposition of every true Christian the least of the flock the meanest in the Kingdom of Heaven to fear God and to fear his name Mal. 3. 16. There they are described to be such as fear the Lord and thought on his name Wicked men may fear man they God wicked fear death those sin they fear Gods wrath these his name The highest of the Godly can trust in his name these can but think on it sometimes The highest Saint can glory in the name of God and praise it In God we boast all the day and praise thy name for ever All that these poor Saints can do is to fear hardly say they trust in never yet could say they glory in the name of God Death is to the natural man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of all terribles most terrible The Lord is to the Spiritual man timendorum maximè timendus stiled He that is to be feared And the name of God is to the gracious heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of all dreadfulls the most dreadfull That glorious and fearful name the Lord thy God The Godly are alway men of fear subject to three sorts of fear 1. To a natural fear This a good at least a lawful fear Thus Jacob professed he feared Esau and Jehoshaphat had much of this fear upon him when he understood of the many enemies that combined against him this comes from the apprehension of apparent danger when danger is great and our help little Thus may all the godly safely fear death pain poverty shame prisonment and fly sin the cause and all other evil occasions of them the Wise feareth and departeth from evil Grace destroyes not nature but reformes the evil of it 2 There is an evil fear inordinate and immoderate fear which sometimes a Godly man is incident to and overtaken with for which they are to be chidden and reproved Why are ye fearful O ye of little faith Too much fear and too little faith alway go