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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

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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