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A76372	Jesus Christ the mysticall or Gospell sun, sometimes seemingly eclipsed, yet never going down from his people: or, Eclipses spiritualized. Opened in a sermon at Paul's before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, aldermen, &c. March 28. 1652. The day before the late solar eclipse. By Fulk Bellers, Master of Arts, and preacher of the Gospel in the city of London.	Bellers, Fulk, b. 1605 or 6.	1652 (1652)	Wing B1827; Thomason E665_15; ESTC R206852	31,076	41

comes into this world viz. that is spiritually illuminated by him Thus we see he is as the Sun in respect of umbrages and as the Sun to dispel all that intrinsecall darknesse to be found within us 2 By way of allusion Allusions may be many but those that are naturall and obvious to all because I do desire to profit all I shall make use of He is as the Sun 1 By way of beauty or excellency The Sun is deservedly looked upon as the Lord of all elementary vertues the fountain of all aëriall light By some as the heart of heaven For as the heart is in the body naturall so is the Sun in the firmamentary body Some look upon it as the sparkling eye of heaven that carrieth beauty in it yea some of the Philosophers fancied that in the sun was the soul of the world which filling that fiery globe which we ordinarily see thence diffuseth his rayes as so many spirits whereby he distributeth life sense and motion to all sublunary creatures It must needs be granted by all that it is the most glorious beautifull and the fairest among all the stars Which how far it may be accommodated to Jesus Christ I shall briefly make out unto you a Psal 45.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Est verbum geminatum augendae significationis gratiâ Rivet Jesus Christ is said to be fairer then the children of men Personall beauty is a great ornament when seconded with morall vertues how much more when with divine graces as in b Gen. 39.6 Joseph and c 1 Sam. 16.13 David But when attended with the e Colos 1.19 fulnesse of grace which was to be found in Christ alone what abundance of lustre must it needs adde unto him What that outward form or feature of Jesus Christ was is utterly unknown though that Jesuite durst take upon him to describe it God I conceive hath dealt by that as by the body of Moses hiding of it lest any finding it f Vavasor de formâ Christi should idolize or adore it in a distinct way from his Deity But though we neither know the outward form or feature of Jesus Christ yet the Scripture holds him forth as very faire and beautifull as altogether lovely to the eye of faith Cant. 5.16 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not onely beautifull in one part but in all parts and two things that the word makes out to us do abundantly demonstrate it 1 That Jesus Christ was without a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 9.14 spot b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pet. 1.19 blemish or deformity Christ he was without any blemish in respect of sin Deformities in body alwaies speak the presence of some sin in the soul Jesus Christ was in all things like to us yet without sin For such an high Priest became us that was holy harmlesse and undefiled separate from sinners Jesus Christ he was 1 Holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He had holinesse to the Lord engraven upon his heart a Exod. 28.36 as the high Priest had it upon his holy crown of pure gold like to the engravings of a signet 2 Harmlesse or innocent 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Devoid of all naturall pravity or sinfulnesse unto which both Priest and People were obnoxious in the Levitical Law 3 Vndefiled unpolluted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not contaminated with any sin a 2 Cor. 5 21. He knew no sin by his own commission though he felt much for it by imputation 4 Separated from sinners He was obnoxious 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as to no sin so to no guilt of sin in and of himself Separated he was from sinners as the high Priest when he entred into the holy of holies was from the common people which causes him to challenge the Jews b John 8.46 Which of you convinceth me of sin 2. He was the brightnesse of his Fathers glory 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb. 1.3 or that resplendent lustre or effulgency arising from the light of his Father He was not onely the reflection of the Father as of the Sun in the Rainbow in a watery cloud or as the Sun in the water or glasse at the rebound onely But as the Son is many times the reflection of the Father being his own lively Picture and Image as having all these glorious excellencies of wisdome knowledge purity that are to be found in his Father Hence it is that we are said feelingly to a 2 Cor. 4.6 know the glory of God in the face of Christ Because in Christ we may see all those glorious excellencies that are to be found in the Father when as the veile that is upon our minds by nature is done away Now if Jesus Christ were sinlesse and the glittering refulgency of his Fathers glory he must needs surpasse the Sun in beauty when it shineth in its fullest strength 2 In regard of the seat and influences of it a Psal 19.5 God hath placed a Tabernacle for the Sun in the heavens There it keepeth it's residence And hence Astronomers clapping him into circles allot unto him various Orbs As the Eccentrique wherein the body of it remains and a couple of orbs the b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one to carry the part that is remoter from the earth and c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 another to carry the lowest part of it And a late d Copernicus Astronomer hath found out one more Eccentrum Eccentri but all in heaven Jesus Christ we know not only as God but as man is now in heaven and g Acts 3.21 the Heavens must containe his bodily presence till times of the restitution of all things h Rev 3.21 And that he is set down in his Fathers Throne on the highest Seat of all glory and excellency Sol agit in inferiora motu lumine influentiis By however the Sun's residence be in heaven yet his light and influences are here below on earth And he may be said to dwell among us in regard of his rayes and beams Jesus Christ we know dwelleth in the highest Heavens but by his rayes and beams of grace a Isai 57.15 he dwels with them that are of a contrite heart to revive the spirit of the humble Rev. 2.1 and the heart of the contrite ones By them he walketh in the midst of the golden candlesticks and as the Sun doth daily visit the earth with his influences so doth Jesus Christ the day spring from on high visit his Saints with the imbreathings and revivings of his graces and comforts 3 In regard of his magnitude and greatnesse The Sun of all the Planets is deservedly looked upon as the greatest both * Quantitate molis virtutis in bulk and vertue The greatnesse of it Astronomers did heretofore gather especially by * Alsted in Cyclopaed lib. 11. cap. 4. de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Solis Reg. 2. eclipses

and n Psal 19.8 maketh his word to be an enlightning word to the mentall eyes of his people 2 He it is that filleth the souls of his elect with light not onely with the light of naturall reason wherewithall a John 1.9 He fils all that come into this world But with the light of grace He that did command light to shine out of darknesse b 2 Cor. 4.6 'T is he that shineth into our souls He sets up a light there viz. the light of saving knowledge and justifying faith yea and the c John 8.12 light of life too in the beginnings or it The Sun naturall is as the Father of light naturall and the Sun spirituall of light spirituall Wherefore he saith d Ephes 5.14 A wake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead and Christ shall give thee light e Isai 60.2 Placaei disp 17. Pag. 179. A passage cited out of this Chapter of Isaiah The Lord shall rise upon thee and his glory shal be seen upon thee The Apostle changeth only the title Jehovah into Christ 2 It produceth heat Hence the Psalmist tels us that f Psal 195. there is nothing hid from the heat thereof It is the heat of the sun that warms the seeds and roots of flowers and many herbs in spring that are in the womb of the earth and draweth them out by his shinings It 's his heat that doth produce Minerals within as well as vegetables upon the surface of the earth Now what the Sun is in the Kingdom of nature that is Christ in the Kingdome of grace It is he that by his word warmes the hearts within of his people 1 Sometimes making them to yeild As the hard Adamant by soking of it in the warm blood of a Goat which as some say is rendred thereby apt to be worked upon so the hard heart of a sinner steeped in the warme blood of Christ Zach. 12.10 fals presently relenting that it may be wrought upon 2 Sometimes to melt as wax before the fire As David found by experience Psal 22.14 My heart is like wax it is melted in the midst of my bowels It is this that turneth an heart of stone into an heart of flesh according to that g Ezek. 36.26 covenant-promise I will take from them an heart of stone and I will give unto them an heart of flesh A melting heart by reason of fear is a great judgement as we see in the h Exod. 15.15 Josh 2.11 Canaanites and i Isai 19.1 Egyptians But to have an heart melted by reason of sin seen through the glasse of the Gospel and the piercings of Jesus Christ is a transcendent mercy As we see in k 2 Kin. 22.19 Josiah Of whom we read that his heart was tender and therfore penitentially he humbleth himself before the Lord. It is the heat under the Limbeck that maketh the water drop out of the head of the Limbeck and it is the inward heat which we find from Jesus Christ that makes many times tears trickle down our eyes because men keep not God's laws It was this that made David wash his bed and water his couch with tears 3 Sometimes it inflames them and setteth their hearts a burning within them That warmth that Christ put into his word did so far transcendently warm Jeremiah's heart that he professeth l Jer. 20.9 his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay Fire will out It was that which made the hearts of those Disciples so hot within them that they brake out Did not our hearts burn within us Luke 24.32 while he spake unto us by the way and opened unto us the Scriptures It is Christ that filleth us so with the fire of love that all the waters of affliction cannot quench it 3 Sometimes it causeth life How doth it draw out that plasticall or formative power which is to be found in seeds making them to sprout while they are under the clod and thereby enquickning them How doth it as it were every Spring call back roots and trees out of their swoone or seeming deadnesse in which they lay all Winter long The Sun by his beams carrieth down life unto them yea to us also in some respect It is the sun that concurreth as an universall cause to the generation of man Sol homo generant hominem and to his supporting in the estate of nature Did not the Sun so qualifie the aire with it's beams it would be utterly unfit to generate or maintaine the vitall spirits in us We owe indeed the life of nature some way to the sun in nature But sure I am we owe the life of grace totally unto Jesus Christ this spirituall Sun Jesus Christ is our m Col. 34. life as well as our light It is he that is a n 1 Cor. 15.45 quickning Spirit As no creature can possibly live without the benefit of the sun so neither can any Christian live the life of grace without Jesus Christ 4 It makes the earth very fruitful it is the sun that makes the trees to sprout and the grasse to spring corne to grow and in a word that crowneth the earth with fruitfulnesse Our God gives o Acts 14.17 fruitfull seasons in their season filling our hearts with food and gladnesse chiefly though not onely by the Suns means whereby he doth renew the face of the earth and bringeth precious things out of it And is there any thing that makes a Christian more p Philip. 1.11 fruitfull in the fruits of righteousnesse then Jesus Christ Without Christ it is certain we can do nothing z Philip. 2.13 till he worketh in us both the will and the deed of his own good pleasure But when his blessing comes to our soules the command of Christ is operative as in the creation when he said q Gen. 1.22 Be fruitfull And it is he that by commanding maketh us to be r Col. 1.10 fruitfull in every good work and doth increase the fruits of righteousnesse in us As all our wel-springs are in Christ so all our fruitfulnesse is from him 5 It bringeth comfort How doth the sight of the Sun in the open air cheer and revive the heart of a man newly drawn out of a dungeon or that hath been a long time confined to his bed of sickness How Å¿ Eccles 11.7 pleasant then is it to behold the light of the Sun It s light and warmth and all its influences are refreshing unto us It is not the promises though never so cordiall that can bring in comfort to our souls unless they do receive a command from Jesus Christ for this end and purpose It is he that comforteth them that are cast down It is he that is the t Luk. 2.25 consolation of Israel and he comes furnished with a commission from his

Father and was anointed by the Spirit to bind up the broken heart to proclaim liberty to the captives Isa 61.1 2. the opening of the prison to them that are bound to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and to comfort all that mourn It is he that gives commission to his Ambassadors to go about comforting work Comfort ye Isa 40.1 2. comfort ye my people saith the Lord speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem and preach saying Her warfare is accomplished and her iniquities are pardoned c. We may say of all other comforters if this Sun be absent as Job of his friends Miserable comforters are ye all But if Christ be present and all worldly comforts be absent we may then say as Jacob I have enough I have all He is able to make our hearts to be brimfull and run over by the comforting influence of his own Spirit Mr Ro. Glover as he did the heart of that Martyr being full of comfort upon the sight of the stake He is come Augustine he is come he is come 6 It bringeth purity and healing We see by ordinary experience how the Sun will as it were purge and heal the aire that was infected with pestilentiall breathings and how it clarifieth it that was overrun with fogs and mists things that are unwholsom to the body of man And is there any thing that will so purge the heart as Jesus Christ will When he is as Refiners fire and Fullers Sope when he sitteth to purifie the hearts of the house of Levi whom he doth intend to make spirituall Priests unto his Father How doth he cry to his Spirit as Hezekiah in another case 2 Chron. 29.5 have out the filthinesse out of the holy place When once he begins to sprinkle clean Covenant-water upon us Ezek. 36.26 from all our filthinesse he will cleanse us Isa 1.25 It is he that is able to purge away all our drosse and take away all our tin and to purifie us to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works Tit. 2.14 When this Sun of righteousnesse doth arise Mal. 4.2 he doth arise with healing in his wings Whereby he regenerateth us and reneweth us after the Image of God and beginneth here the cure of our corruptions though the perfecting of the cure be reserved for heaven Thus we see the mysticall Sun Jesus Christ to be the same to beleevers as the Sun in the firmament to the world upon point of benefit giving to them 1 Light 2 Heat 3 Life 4 Fruitfulnesse 5 Comfort 6 Healing Qu. But how may I know whether I have a right of propriety in this Sun or not that so I may be able to judge whether this cordiall passage doth belong unto me or not Thy Sun shall no more go down Sol. For answer hereof I shall onely offer to your considerations some hints from these six properties whereby you may be able to judge of your interest in this Sun And let conscience briefly answer to these interrogations viz. Hath Christ 1 Come in with enlightening influence to my soul There was a time when I sate in the region of the valley of the shadow of death when I was in another Egypt for darknesse but light is now risen unto me and I am removed into another Goshen Col. 1.13 He hath brought me out of the kingdome of darknesse and translated me into the kingdome of his dear Son He hath communicated of those treasures of wisdome and knowledge unto me Col. 2.3 whereby though he have not made me politickly craftily cunningly worldly wise in the things of this life to over-reach or circumvent others or to enrich my self by indirect ways yet he hath made me savingly wise or wise unto salvation He hath discovered himself in the face of Jesus Christ unto me Yea he hath shewen me my self in the glasse of his Word how miserable I was by nature how happy by my interest in Jesus Christ And all this light filleth me with love to Jesus Christ and maketh me more humble in mine own eyes because the little that I know is not the thousand part of what I know not He hath made me with Mary thus wise as to choose the better part that one thing necessary and with Moses deliberately to choose to suffer afflictions with the people of God rather then to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season And with David to take his word to be a lamp to my feet Psal 119. and a light to my paths I can now say experimentally Whereas I was born blinde now I see 2 Warmed my heart with divinest love which like the fire of the Sanctuary is alwaies burning within me breaking forth in flames of piety towards God in Christ and of humanity courtesie kindnesse towards men especially toward Saints Exod. 2. Do I finde it to be as the fire in the bush that consumed it not though it continued burning Yea that all the waters of affliction or persecution cannotslack much lesse extinguish my love unto Jesus Christ He hath so shed abroad his love in my soul Acts 21 13. that makes me willing to do and dye for Christ Now how your pulses beat this way as Christians let conscience judg And for you Right Hon. that are intrusted with the government of this great city there is expected from you not onely warmth of love but a peculiar fire of zeal to promote the glory of God Psal 69.9 as you see in David The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up When observing the Ordinances to be contemned the Name of God blasphemed Sabbaths profaned Religion trampled under feet zeale then inforceth him yea even consumeth him for the promoting of the glory of God You that are the Magistrates in this renowned City consult your own consciences in this particular 3 Come in with life 'T was my condition when I was in my naturall estate as it was with Lazarus some way when buried I did once lie in the grave of my sins as he in the grave of the earth Hath Christ enlivened and enquickned me to newnesse of life Can I say truly as Paul I live yet not I Gal. 2.20 but Christ liveth in me and the life that I now live I live by the faith of the Son of God that hath given himself for me Doth this life from Christ make me lively in all duties for Christ that so I may serve God in my generation either in a way of Magistracy Ministry or in a private orbe or station 4 Made me any way fruitfull Doth the spring of grace come as fast forward in my soul as the spring of nature now on the earth doth he make me fruitfull as a good 1 Magistrate Exod. 18.21 to bring forth the fruits of the feare of my God of truth righteousnesse of courage and judgement causing me to hate covetuousnesse and reject bribes Exod. 23.8 which do blinde the wise and

outward troubles he doth not deliver them 3 Truth The truth of Christ may be much obnubilated x Rev. 8.12 Thus Christ somtimes suffered the third part of the Sun to be smitten and the third part of the Moon and the third part of the Stars so that a third part of them were darkened because the sun of Gospel-truth shined not but was hidden and the Moon representing the Church and the stars representing the Ministers in it were smitten and lost much of their light y Rev. 9.2 When Antichrist openeth the bottomlesse pit and there ariseth a smoak out of the pit like the smoak of a great furnace it causeth an Eclipse of the Sun of truth by reason of errours superstitions idols and thereby an inundation of sin Truth was hereby obscured yea a totall eclipse by an inundation of errours and by a generall apostacy As in that Apostolicall Church z Rev. 6.12 When the Sun became black as sackcloth of hair When men's inventions were mingled with the doctrine and merit of Jesus Christ what a totall eclipse did the truth of Jesus Christ then meet withall 2 In regard of us Christ may seemingly be eclipsed 1 When his graces are partially beclouded in us as there is no star in the firmament but is capable of an eclipse so there is no grace in the soule but may be much darkned A mans knowledge and faith may not onely be in the wain but in the eclipse so that though he have Christ in the promise he shall not be able to discerne him no more then those a Luke 24.16 disciples going to Emaus when their eyes were held that they should not see his person i.e. know it A strange detention When it is with us as it was with Mary with her blubbered eyes who mistaketh Christ for the Gardener Or as it was b John 20.25 with Hagar that had a fountain of water before her c Gen. 21.19 yet could not see it till God was pleased to open her eyes Christ may hide himselfe from our hearts that knowledge or faith shall not be able to reach him And as it is with knowledge and faith so it is with hope too as we see in those disciples fore-mentioned going to Emaus We hoped that it was he that should have redeemea Israel and as it was with the Church in Jeremiah's time We have looked i.e. we hoped for good but no good came and for a time of healing but behold trouble and despondingly men are ready to say d Jor. 8.20 15. The harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not saved Saints hopes may be ready in regard of temporals to give up the ghost as it was sometimes with Paul who professed that all e Acts 27.20 hopes that we should be● saved were now taken away And the like I might instance in all other graces But I must hasten 2 In regard of comforts which may be totally eclipsed f Job 13.24 When God doth either hide his face whereof Job doth bitterly complain Wherefore hidest thou thy face and holdest me for thine enemy thou writest bitter things against me and makest me possesse the iniquities of my youth This was that which drained so many tears from the Church g Psal 44.24 88.14 in David's time and from David with the Church Wherefore hidest thou thy face c And in Isaiah's time Thou art a God that hidest thy selfe Bitter it was to h 2 Sam. 14.32 Absalom to be deprived of the sight of the face of David so that he would rather put himselfe upon the visible hazard of death then to be any longer without it But infinitely more bitter it is to a Saint to be deprived of the face and favour of God This draws out those mournful complaints i Psal 13.1 89.46 How long wilt thou hide thy face from me for ever But however this be true that there may bee partial eclipses of many graces and total eclipses of many comforts Yet this Sun being once up in the Horizon of our souls will never any more go down from us What else is the meaning of those promises that I shall only use to confirme this truth withall This in the text is so plain that whoever runs may read it that once being risen in our hearts he will never set any more unto us And he that will not take Gods word in one place will take it in no place To which I might adde if necessary k Matth. 28.20 Behold I am with you alwayes to the end of the world A promise not only extensive to the Apostles for speciall presence or Ministers the faithfull Dispensers of his word their successors but to all of them that were to believe by their Ministry And that promise l Heb. 13.5 I will never leave thee nor forsake thee A promise first past to m Gen. 28.15 Jacob then to n Josh 1.5 Joshuah but yet for the people of o 1 Sam. 12.22 Israels sake which were a lively figure of Christians And therefore by the Apostle it is extended to all believers q. d. It cannot be that I should leave thee or desert thee Well I may sometimes be beclouded and eclipsed from thee yet I will never leave thee totally This is the basis of the Apostles confidence p Philip. 1.6 He that hath begun a good work in you will performe it When he layeth the foundations of the buildings of grace he doth not desert his work but he will stand by it and carry it on and that for ever Hence it is that Christ when he takes possession of the soul he comes to q John 14.23 1 Cor. 3.16.6.19 abide in the soul And abiding we know implieth continuance of residence He dwels here as in his house habitation or temple 'T was a promise of his to abide in r Psal 68.16 Mount Sion for ever that was for that periodicall ever of Christ's coming in the flesh But ſ John 14.23 Christ promiseth absolutely to abide for ever with his people by his spirit He will be alwayes with us by his word whereby he hath made himselfe known in a covenant-way and by his spirit to regenerate and sanctifie us to eternall life by his speciall presence and power preserving and securing us in all the collisions combustions confusions that are in the world God engaging himselfe t Isai 46.4 That as he hath borne us from the belly and carried us from the womb so even to our old age and hoary hairs he will carry us u Psal 73.24 And he will guide us by his counsel till he do receive us to glory As the hils stand about Jerusalem so the Lord stands about his people from this time forth even for ever Now we know that God is not as man that he should lie Num. 23.19 and as the Son of man that he should repent Hath he said it and