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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

flash as the fire of Thorns but joyes maintained with joyes joy leading to joy a standing boundless joy an ending endless Joy whereas the wicked mans joy is brewed with sorrow compassed with it tends to it and ends in it but hath it self no end 8. Unmixt others muddy impure mixt with sin guilt gripes of conscience and when ready to run over cooled with the hand-writing upon the wall the remembrance of his sin the apprehension of Gods wrath But Spiritual joy is the purest thing in the world as the light of the Sun light without darkness as his warmth pure without smell or smoak 9. Permanent never eclipsed not by any disease or danger threatning death 2 Cor. 1. 12. not any distress 2 Cor. 16. 10. as sorrowing but alway rejoicing John 16. 22. Your joy shall no man take from you They must needs swim in Joy whom Christ holds up by the chin And as Josephs bow so the Christians joy must needs abide in strength when hee hath such a wall at his back and such a well at his foot At this Beer-la-hai-roi Hagar may fill her empty bottle as oft as she will and thirst no more 3. This directs what to do when wee complaine wee cannot profit and do not thrive The heart yeilds not the sin decayes not Go to Christ desire to be under the direct beames of the Sunne Trees thrive not in the shady side Cry Blow O North wind and breath O South wind distil O raine and look out thou Sun upon my Garden that the Spices thereof may flow out Let my Beloved come into his Garden and eat his pleasant fruits Hast thou a heart that will not yeild under Judgments his Love can melt it The Manna dissolved by the Suns gentle heat that was hardned and dryed in the Oven or boiling pot Whom the furnace of Judgments burn and the Oven heated with wrath doth bake and harden the melting love of Christ doth mollifie The last and ●orest Vyal upon sin which ends the mystery of iniquity and finisheth Satans Kingdom is poured from the Sunne The brightnesse of Christs appearing is the destruction of Antichrist and is that which alone distroyes the works of the Divel in the heart Cry out therefore with the Church Oh that thou wouldst rent the Heavens and come and make this Mountaine melt and this rock flow at thy presence as when the melting fire burneth the fire causeth the waters to boyle As thou didst of old at Mount Sinai when thou didst terrible things that wee looked not for Is my heart harder then the rock higher then Mount Sinai break this Rock cast down this Mountain Though I have had my part of Terro●s and been brayed with the pestle of afflictions though I have not wanted for light yet my heart yeilds not my heart freezeth in the shade in midst of noon day light as in the depth of Winter There is one thing only remains and the work is done Shine out thou Sun of Righteousnesse and with the warme beams of thy favour melt those Rocks of Ice and bring downe these Mountaines of snow Thou causest thy Spirit and warmer breath to blow and the waters flow Psal. 147. 18. 4. Comfort to them that have Christ near to them They are like those Countries near the Line they shall have a perpetual Spring no Autumn A constant Summer no Winter in their year but a renewed and successive harvest These shall never want Grace sufficient and peace necessary Their tree casteth not leaf nor loseth fruit Christ will be both Sun and Shield he will go with you in trouble In the fire go with you and be a Sheild to keep you from burning in the water be a Sun to warm you and keep you from shaking So he was to Jacob Sun by day burnt him not and frost by night starved him not The Lord will create upon every dwelling place in Mount Sion and upon her Assemblies a cloud and smoak by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defence and there shall be a Tabernacle in the day time for a shadow from the heat and for a place of Refuge and for a covert from storm and from rain When the worldlings heart is cold in his belly as Nabal who became as cold as a stone and when like old David thy native heat is decaied so far that no cloathes nor fire can keep thee warm Christ the Shunamite shall lye in thy bosom and cheer thy heart that thou shalt say for joy Aha I am warm the world is well amended with me The Winter is past the rain is over and gone the Flowers appear on the earth the singing of Birds is heard in the air and the voice of the Turtle soundeth and the Spring is come CHAP. XIIII The Suns Regency ANother Property of the Sun is his Rege●cy herein a shadow of Christ and his Regal Office The Lord gave the Sun to rule by day 1 His Rule is Monarchical The Sun hath no Peer but is an absolute Monarch So is Christ the sole King and Lawgiver in his Church who will admit of no Compartners in his Government 2. His Dominion is the largest Christ and the Sun no third both the universal Monarchs of the World whose Dominion is without bounds from Sea to Sea and from East to West 3. The Suns Dominion is the most ancient we read of began before mans The Suns the fourth day mans not till the sixth Christ is the everlasting Father who had a Kingdom in Heaven before there was man on Earth Our ancient Families are but of yester day to him The Princes of Zoan are Fools the Counsellors of Pharaoh are brutish How say ye to Pharaoh I am the son of the Wise the son of ancient Kings Egypt above other Nations had ever gloried in her Antiquity 4. For Duration both shall continue to the worlds end These two Monarchs have out lasted all others have seen the fatal dissolutions of royal Families and the Translation of all other Monarchies And both shall determine together when the Sun resigneth his then shall Christ also resigne his Kingdome into the Fathers hands 5. For Power the greatest Potentates Other Kings and Commanders are only titular many times these have uncontroulable commands The Sun hath power over all Creatures the earth aire seas it raiseth stormes and doth allay them gives Law to day and night the worlds first subdividers to winter and summer le ts in both frost and snow by his withdrawing and by his looking out dissolves them The Sun of Righteousnesse hath like but greater power hath all nations times seasons in his dispose He hath for the nations an Iron rod for Antichrist his Vyals and for his Church sharp storms sometimes he permits hereticks le ts lose persecutors and at his pleasure bindeth them up The Dragon he let loose three hundred years the Beast one thousand two

is the root bears the branch not the branch the root our faith love holiness is not the ro●t but branches of the love of God the branch is broken the root remains We are changed and so sometimes we cannot do as at other times we think God is changed he is not Children in a Boat think the houses and trees remove it is the boat not the trees We measure Gods love to us by ours to him and so perplex all But the Scripture puts it out of doubt our unbelief makes not void Gods faithfulnesse if we be unfaithful and deny him he yet abideth faithful and cannot deny himselfe if we forget we are children he cannot forget to be a father He may repent it may be that he gave Saul a Kingdome or Jeroboam ten Tribes never repents of grace given because this flowes from unchanged fatherly love the other from common providence 3. Then are the promises firm which Christ hath made He is the Amen Rev. 3. 14. And all his Promises are yea and Amen As the Suns motion is certain varyeth not a minute hence Eclipses can be so long foretold by Artists and every Countryman can tel you where the Sun wil be and of what length the daies seven years hence If ever therefore there was a promise to a believer to justifie the ungodly to count faith for righteousnesse it wil as wel reach us as Abraham as the Apostle reasons The Sun moves constantly with in his Tropicks and comes sooner or later to all such climates as are within his bounds Christ doth as certainly meet those that wait for him in his way 4. Terror to wicked ones If Christ his love and promises firm then his threats his truth justice jealousie hatred of sin is as much as ever If he ever hated an ungodly person he loves not thee He shews mercy to thousands but by no means clears th● guilty Exod. 34 7. His garments are white as wool but his eyes red as flames of fire and he hath a sharp two edged sword in his mouth Woe to them who walk in the way of Cain Balaam or Corah their damnation slumbers not though their conscience slumber The Sun never goes an inch beyond his Tropick but returns nor wil Christ the Son of peace ever come to such as are out of the way of peace but return back again CHAP. IX Communicativenesse a Communicable Attribute HAving spoken of the Incommunicable Attributes I shal descend to some communicable ones and that this discourse may not swel beyond intention I shall the more contract my self I might name many Attributes of this sort as Communicativenesse Greatnesse Glory c. of which other creatures also do participate yet are they most eminent in the Sun I shall speake of communicativenesse under this head and refer the rest to the next Communicativenesse is an excellent Attribute in the Sun The Moon Stars Ayre Seas earth are all communicative of their several benefits to man But the Sun most of all and they enabled by the Sun It buries not his light shuts not up his influence shines not to it self is as free and liberal to the poor as rich to the beggar as to the King The Lord hath divided it and the stars saith Moses to all nations under the whole heaven They under the Poles have their share as wel as they under the Line So hath Christ received of the Father gifts to be communicated unto men of his fulnesse all receive his merits are of largest extent his Gospel to be preached to all nations and to every creature 1 Then is here provision for the poorest Christian who hath nothing to buy with the Sun sels not but gives his light freely it is Gods light it is the poore mans friend his candle fuel raiment Diogen●s hath as good a propriety in ●t as Alexander Christ is the poor mans friend Advocate Physician Saviour and Master of that Corporation The●e are his Guests Disciples Bride He entertains none of other qualitie but those in poverty Come he that hath no bread nor m●ny He cals all thirsty to come drink freely an● without price We love to match into Estates great Families marry with Nobility Beauty Preferments Christ loves to bestow himself on poore undone helplesse persons he matcheth with misery beggery infamy base b●irth humility deformity Ahasuerus thought the Crown better s●t on Esthers head then Vashtyes or al● the Pri●cely Ladies of the Court. And Christ his grace and favour is confer'd stil on the humble soul the highest Crown was set on the lowest handmaid Poor Mary became Deipara she was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All be-graced highly honoured and shee got the name from the first and greatest of women as her Son from the highest and first of men she became Chavah the only mother of the Living and which is stranger her Son the Adam and Parent of the world 2. Then is Christs not a scant but plenteous Redemption not from one but infinite Transgressions not of one or a few but of infinite persons He sheweth mercy to thousands his Sealed Book containes an innumerable company of Angels and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 General Assembly and Church of the first born whose names are written in Heaven contains so many Myriades as no man can number of all Kindreds Nations Tongues and people They are not a few but a world who are redeemed The whole world of the Elect severed from the world of the Ungodly 3. Then there is just ground for our hopes prayers endeavours for the calling of the Gentiles who at present sit in darkness and live without God in the world without Covenant Promise and Gospel And for the Jewes also who shall be grafted in again if they abide not still in unbelief who are also at present without God and King and Teraphim and Prophet and Priest and hope too as much as the uncalled Gentiles but there are promises for both The ends of the earth are the Fathers Advowson and the Son is ordained by him to be the Occumenical Bishop of the habitable world He shall sprinkle many Nations inherit all Lands rule from Sea to Sea to the utmost Indies The Sun moves sometimes North sometimes South is sometimes in the East and sometimes in the West but ere the year goes about and ends hath viewed all Climes so shall the Gospel be preached to all Nations before the end of the World The Church is as the Sea which if it lose in one place gets as much in another The Gospel is as the Sun which when it goes from one place goes to another 4. Is Christ so communicative then what an encouragement is this to poor souls to go to Christ 1. For his freeness He keeps open house to all comers as Titu● sent none away sad he none empty that come to him upbraiding none rejecting none giving liberally forgiving universally