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The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer
The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believer by Thomas Watson.The Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer by Thomas Watson.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Ralph Smith, 1654
THE CHRISTIANS Charter. › Chapter 9: The fourth Prerogative Royal.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
5. Light, It is called an inheritance in light*; [Greek or Hebrew]. If every star were a Sun it could never shadow out the bright lustre of this celestial Paradise. Light is a glorious creature; what were all the world without light but a dark prison? What beauty is there in the Sun when it is masked with a cloud? Lumen actuat colours, saith the Logician: Light doth actuate the colours, and make every flower appear in its fresh beauty. Heaven is a diaphanum or bright body all over embroidered with light, not like the Coelum stellatum, or starry heaven, here and there bespangled ⟨p. 131⟩with stars, but other parts of it like chequer-work interwoven with darkness. Here Christ as a continual Sun shall give light to the whole heaven. The lamb shall be the light thereof*; indeed all other light in comparison of this, is but like the twilight, or rather the midnight. Here alone are the shining rays of beauty, which every glorified eye shall be enabled both to behold and to possess; and this light shall have no night to Eclipse it, no snuffers of death to extinguish it; when once the Sun of righteousness hath risen upon the soul it shall never set any more. This is an high Gradation of the glory of heaven, it is an inheritance in light. When the Scripture would set forth the blessedness of God himself, it makes it consist in this, He dwelleth in light*.
5. Light, It is called an inheritance in light*; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. If every star were a Sun it could never shadow out the bright lustre of this celestial Paradise. Light is a glorious creature; what were all the world without light but a dark prison? What beauty is there in the Sunne when it is masqued with a cloud? Lumen actuat colores, saith the Logician: Light doth actuate the colours, and make every flower appear in its fresh beauty. Heaven is a diaphanum or bright body all over embroydered with light, not like the Coelum stellatum, or starry heaven, here and there bespangled