How the Gospel propagateth it selfe. [ 765]
AS the scope of the Sun is in all the World,* 1.1 and yet at one time the Sun doth not shine in all the parts thereof, it beginneth in the East, and passeth to the South, and so to the West; and as it passeth forward, bringing light to one place, with∣draweth from another: So it is in regard of the Sun of Righteousness, the sun-shine of the Gospel, he hath jus ad omnem ••e••ram; but he hath not at the same jus in omni terra: the Propriety of all is his; but he taketh possession of it all, successively, and by part••s the Eastern Churches, the Southern have had his light, which now are in darkness for the most part; and we that are more Northerly, do now enjoy the clearest Noontide; but the Sun beginneth to rise to them in the West, and it is too to plain, that our light beginneth to grow dim, it is to be feared that it hasteth to their Meridian, and whether after their noon it will set, God knoweth; yet the cause hereof is not (lest we mistake) in the Sun of Righteousness, as the cause why all have not light at one time, is in the corporal Sun; The corporal cannot at one time enlighten all, the Sun of Righteousness can; But for the sins of the People, the Candlestick is removed, and given to a Nation that will bear more fruit; We in∣terpose our Earthliness between our selves and the Sun, and so exclude our selves from the beams thereof.