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]
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- 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]
- Author
- Sheffield, John, fl. 1643-1647.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by Th. Maxey for Sa. Gellibrand ...,
- 1654.
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- Justification.
- Christian life.
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"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]." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A59622.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 2, 2024.
Contents
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Superiori, sed Propiori Soli, Soli Ju∣stitiae Soli, Mundi conditori, Eccle∣clesiae Redemptori
Theophilo, &Philemoni. - To the Right Worshipful and other his beloved Friends▪ Inhabitants of SWITHINS LONDON.
- To the READER.
- publisher's advertisement
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CHAP. I. 1. Christ is to his Church, what the Sun is to the world. -
CHAP. 2. The Likenesse between Christ and the Sun. -
CHAP. III. Christ and the Sun alike in their Attri∣butes. Unity the first. -
CHAP. IV. Omniscience the second Incommunicable At∣tribute. -
CHAP. V. The Suns Omnipresence a shadow of Christ. -
CHAP. VI. The fourth Incommunicable Attribute, Omni∣influence. -
CHAP. VII. Perfection, another Incommunicable At∣tribute. -
CHAP. VIII. Unchangeableness the last Incommunicable Attribute. -
CHAP. IX. Communicativenesse a Communicable At∣tribute. -
CHAP. X Of several Properties of the Sun, whereof first his Greatness. -
CHAP. XI. The Glory of the Sun the second Property. -
CHAP. XII. The third Property, Light. -
CHAP. XIII. Warmth the fourth Property. -
CHAP. XIIII. The Suns Regency. -
CHAP. XV. The Suns Activity and Motion, the last Pro∣perty. -
CHAP. XVI. The fourth thing wherein there is a like∣nesse between Christ and the, Sun is their effects. -
CHAP. XVII. The likenesse of both in sundry Acci∣dents. -
CHAP. XVIII The unlikenesse and disagreement between the Sun and Christ. -
CHAP. XIX Containing the second maine Proposition, That Iesus Christ is the Sun of Righ∣teousnesse. -
CHAP. XX All the godly are such as fear the name of God. -
CHAP. XXI. That Christ shall certainly and timely arise upon all such as fear his Name. -
CHAP. XXII. Of Christ his healing the soul. Diseases of his People. -
CHAP. XXIII. Of the Admirable growth promised to the Saints.
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- The TABLE.
- Errata quomodo Corrigenda.