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A61472	England's deliverance from the northern presbytery, compared with its deliverance from the Roman papacy by Peter Sterry, once fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher to the Right Honorable the Councell of State, sitting at White-Hall.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing S5479; ESTC R223757	30,515	46

the Nations Let me add to this that the Power of our Dear Saviours Death so far as ever I could know or learn lyes with so much Sense of it with such Gaspings under it upon no Spirits which at this Day live in Flesh as upon the Spirits of English Christians though alas upon too too few of them Now our Lord foretels us that Where the Carkasse is thither will the Eagles be gathered together Matthow 24. 28. Where the most considerable Part of the Body of our Lord Iesus shall lye most eminently moulded into a fellowship with him in his most Precious Death there upon that flesh will the Heavenly Appearances the Divine powers the Immortall Glories of the Holy-Ghost who is represented by Seven Spirits for the variety of His Powers and Appearances first and most Eminently alight as Eagles upon the Carkasse 3 Consideration The Dispensations of God in Spirituall Priviledges have been Peculiar to this Nation in many things as to a Beloved a First-born Childe The First King that became Christian raigned in this Land The First Emperour by whom Jesus Christ with his Saints came up out of the fires of Heathenish Persecutions and appeared upon the Throne came from hence was born here Wickliffe that day-breake of Evangel call Light from whom the First Glympses of Truth and Christ appeared to the World lying in the deepest Night of Anti-christian Darknesse He dawned from this Quarter of the Heavens He was borne an Englishman lived fruitfully died Peaceably in London From him did the Gospel shine forth upon the Bohemians and so upon that Blessed pair of Martyrs Hierom and Hu●… who prophesied of Luther the Morning starr I cannot passe over in silence that Darling of Iesus Christ's Edward the sixth a Childe a King a Saint all three in one He as a forward Plant though nipt in the Bud yet was a Declaration that Spring and Summer were coming But how in these last times have the People of God in the midst of this Land been as his Ioseph among the Nations Ioseph hath been despised by his brethren divided from his brethren as an Ambitious dreame●… Yet Ioseph hath been like a fruitfull bough by a well whose branches have run over the Wall for the Good-will of him who dwelt in the bush Ioseph is that bush which burnes with fire yet hath not been consumed The Archers sorely grieve him and shoot at him and hate him But his how abideth in strength his armes are made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Iacob From thence shall be the shepherd the stone of Israel the blessing upon his head unto the bounds of the Everlasting hils His Glory is as the firstling of his bullock his horns as the horns of an Unicorne with them he shall push the People together to the end of the Earth If the blessings on the Tribes be Types of the last dayes the dayes of the Messiah I hope I have not done amisse in transferring the things of Ioseph as a Figure to the Present state of the Church in this Land I formerly shewed you O my fellow-members whose Lot is fallen in this Age and Iland your face in the Glasse of Davids Story These two seem to me Paralel figures of your selves Both were drawn out of the Pit to be Princes Both ruled in the midst of Domestick Forrain Reproaches and Ruines Both were blessed with the Precious things of Heaven of Earth of Sun and Moon Grace and Nature Flesh and Spirit Yet both died in the Land of Egypt in a state of Trouble Both are happily succeeded by the Fulnesse of Peace and Glory David by Solomon Ioseph by Benjamin brought forth by the death of his mother the Hierusalem below but the Son of the right hand of his heavenly Fathers righteousnesse Power and Majesty of whom Moses sings The beloved of the Lord shal dwel in safety by him the Lord shal cover him all the day long he shal dwel between his shoulders 4. Consid. I have received from the Mouth of a Gentleman of understanding and integrity in his Testimony a Discourse which himself had from one of the most Learned among the Iews at Venice as I remember that A generall Tradition divides the Prophesies of the old Testament into unfixed fixed The fixed are such as be determined to some certain Place In the number of the fixed Prophesies is that of Isaiah chap. 24. and 13 14 15 16. When thus it shall be in the midst of the Land among the People there shall be as the shaking of an Olive Tree as the Gleaning of Grapes when the vintage is done They shall lift up their voice they shall sing for the Majesty of the Lord they shall cry aloud from the SEA Wherefore glorifie ye the Lord in the fires the Name of the Lord God of Israel in the ILES of the Sea From the UTTERMOST Parts of the Earth have we heard Songs Glory to the Righteous The place said he on which this Prophesie is fixed by the constant Reception of the Rabbins is this I le of Great Brittain I cannot but lay to these verses before cited another verse out of the same chapter verse 21. And it shall come to passe in that day that the Lord shall punish the Hoast of the High Ones on high and the Kings of the Earth on the earth Of a truth he that peruseth this whole chapter and compares it with the first of Ezekiel will finde Both to speak of the same season and affaire with this Difference Isay is full in Desoribing the storm Brief in the Glory Ezekiel spends one verse onely on the storm all the chapter besides on the Glory I appeal to those hearts who have a Spirituall Eye opened in them how farre they see the Letter in both those chapters answered by the life of the Letter acting it self forth on this land how much they discover of Glory wrapt up in a storm and ready to issue forth from it as lightning from a cloud 2. Interest of the Present times in the coming of the children of GOD out of the NORTH I shall here humbly offer to you three prophetick Scriptures which seem to be contemporary and joyntly to have their Proper influences on these dayes 1. The First Scripture is Dan. 7. ver. 9 10. and verse 22 and verse 26. The End of the Fourth Empire is here described in the vision and in the Interpretation 2. The second Scripture is Rev. 3. v. 14 c. The Epistle to the seventh Church 3. The last Scripture is Rev. 16. 10 13. The Opening of the fifth and sixth Seal These three Scriptures manifestly agree in Foure things 1. A Party Iudging 2. A Party Iudged 3. A Kingdom sinking 4. A Kingdom springing 1. A Party Iudging Laodicea the Name of the seventh Church made by Master Brightman a Type of England is compounded of two words {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which signifies the People

all subdued before you had founded and built up that Interest and Strength by which they opposed the Glorious out-goings of GOD before you and endeavoured your Ruine This is that which I call the Scotch-Presbytery and now compare with the Romish-Papacy 1. The Comparison is first to be made in those things which I call Agreements between them and these are Six 1. Agreement Both joyn in setting up the Scriptures the Word of God outwardly exprest as the Letter of that Law by which all things of Christianity and Religion are to be judged So Scotus himself teacheth in his Preface to his Disputes upon the Sentences that Religion must be grounded upon a Revelation In this not onely the Romish-Papist and Scotch-Presbyter but all who pretend with any face to any thing of GOD or CHRIST do concur But there are two things in a Revelation There is Lex Revelata and Lumen Revelationis that is the Law Revealed and the Light of Revelation One is the Subject or Master but the other is the Forme the Life the Essence of a Revelation Now these Two Parties meet in this to magnifie the first of these the Law Revealed This they make the foundation of their Throne the Scepter of their Government which as taken singly by it self is but a breathlesse Carkass or a Dead Letter Herein a Living Member of IESVS CHRIST is in this Point distinguished from all other●… He receiveth ownes bowes down to the Law revealed upon this account because it comes down from Heaven into his heart in a Light of Divine Revelation 2. Agreement These two of whom we speak do Both asse●… a visible Iudge on Earth upon whom all Particular Persons are to depend for the Determining of those two Grand Questions First what is Scripture Secondly what the sense of that Scripture is The Romanists say that this Iudge is the Pope or an Oecumenicall Councell The Scotch Presbyter is for a Nationall Assembly or rather an Oecumenicall Assembly if the Civil Government would bear it This Presbyter condemns the Papist justly because he suffereth not the people to read the Scriptures in their own Tongue But who art thon O man who condemnest another and dost thy self the same thing while thou forbiddest private persons to read the Scriptures with their own Eyes Thou confinest them to Spectacles of the Assemblies making while thou permittest the Reading but prohibitest the Interpreting of the Spriptures according to that sense which the Holy Spirit brings forth to every man in his own spirit if it be not stumpt for Currant by the Spirit of the Generall Assembly Why dost thou judge the Papist for exalting un-written Traditions to an Equall Authority with the Scriptures when thy way maketh the Scripture it self in the Letter and Meaning of it a Tradition of the Elders 3. Agreement Both these Sects have a very great Jealousie over the Spirit of GOD As the Pharisees said concerning IESUS CHRIST Joh. 11 48 If we let this man alone all men will believe on him and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and Nation So say these two the Romish and Scotch Principles in the hearts of men If we yeeld to this to let the Spirit alone and to suffer all men to believe on the Holy Ghost as the onely witness and evidence of Divine Truth if we give way to this as sound doctrine that it is the proper office of the Third Person the Spirit and of him alone to Apply Truth Authoritatively as it is of the second Person to Act of the first Person to Decree that it belongs to this Spirit alone authoritatively to testifie in the spirits of Men what those words are which himself hath taught what the meaning of the Spirit is in those words if this be once granted that nothing is to be received as Divine Truth but that which brings an Epistle of Commendations along with it written by this finger of the Living GOD upon the Heart then farewell all Religion all manner of Sects Heresies Heathenisme will break in upon us and take away the very face of a Church from amongst us It is said of JESUS CHRIST that He was numbred among transgressors in his death Such usage as our Saviour himself found on Earth from Pilate and the Priests such doth his Spirit find to this day from the Papacy and that Presbytery of which we speak The Holy Ghost as he appears and gives forth his Oracles in his Temples which are his Saints is numbred among Whimsies Fancies Fanatick Furies Enthusiasmes and so is condemned is suppress'd 4. Agreement A watchfull Opposition to all Growths of Truth above the pitch and stature of Opinions commonly received Nothing is accounted so dangerous in things pertaining to the Gospel as Innovation although S. Paul command us still to be transformed in the Renewing of our Mindes that we may prove what the good and acceptable will of GOD is and this to Saints already converted as a continual duty in which they are ever to be exercising themselves that they may have new mindes to day in comparison with those which they had yesterday and new mindes again tomorrow in comparison with their mindes to day yet the same Iesus yesterday to day and for ever As in some places of the River Thames you have Wyers set up quite crosse the River and basket nets laid in those Wyers to catch those Lampries that come swimming up against the stream so both in Papacie and in Rigid Presbyterie all Constitutions Methods frames of Doctrine and Discipline seem to be as wyers with nets in them set crosse the whole stream of civil and Religious conversation to catch every discovery of Christ every manifestation of the Gospel which comes up against the present Tide the general Current of Principles and Positions They labour as to hedge in the Wind to binde up the sweet influences of the Spirit they will not suffer it to blow where it lists because they know not whence it comes or whither it goes 5. Agreement in Annexing the Spirit to outward Formalities Like Simon Magus Both seem to believe that the Gifts and Ministery of the Spirit may be purchased by the Coin of Education Parts Moral honestie formal Qualifications Ceremonious Observations of outward Rites So is their way laid so are all their practices managed as if by a kind of Simoniacal Magick that power which alone can aw or secure us from the divel were shut up within the circle of their custemary and solemn Forms VVhen the LORD saith Neither on this Mountain nor in Jerusalem but in spirit and truth shall all men worship the Father Yea say they but spirit and truth dispense themselves within the Ierusalem of this Church-order on the Mountain of these rituall observations these consecrated forms 6. Agreement in making Religion a Rise to Civil Pomp and Power JESUS CHRIST saith My Kingdom is not of this world But say these two Factions Our Kingdom

is over this world We rule in Earthly things by an Earthly strength though not from an Earthly Title The Heavenly power of the Spirit is the Scepter in our Hand but the fleshly power of the Magistrate is the sword in the Hand of our Minister and Guard which is to be subordinate to our Scepter By this means they bring all manner of civil affairs within the compass of their Cognisance by vertue of their spiritual judicatories they dispose of Governments Nations Crowns by vertue of their Ecclesiastick censures As the Pope baited Queen Elizabeth with his Bul and gave away the Kingdom of England to the King of Spain so did the Presbytery in Scotland now judge condemn the Present Government set over us by the glorious might of Divine Power and give away this Nation to their Scots King I have done with the Agreements of these two I come now to compare them in their Differences and that onely those in which the later Enemy appears worse than the former that so the former Mercy may be made the sweeter to us in being exceeded and swallowed up by this later deliverance as a stream running into a greater river The Differences between these two Enemies are four 1. Difference Our first enemies pleased not GOD but yet were agreeable to men in their wayes Being false to a divine and spiritual interest they are true to principles of humane policy Being severe in the imposall of superstitious rites and those principles which descend immediatly into the practice of such rites they take and give a large scope to the understanding and affections in generous contemplations in mystical divinity Wanting that bread of heaven that new wine of the Kingdom the beauties and sweetnesses of GOD in the Spirit which should feast the inward man they entertain the fancy and senses with all objects sutable to them with a pretence of a subserviency to devotion as in the Temple of old On the other side our last enemies please not God and are contrary to all men These contemne the Spirit and its Impressions upon the heart when they are set up for Pillars of fire to go before us in this dark night of flesh as Enthusiasmes At the same time they condemne humane policy as profane They check the delights of sense and fancy as vain rejecting also the openings of the glory of Christ the mutuall enterviews walkes embraces kisses between God and the Soul in the Spirit as Whimsicall It is necessary for me here to professe that I have no meaning to justifie the sensualities of the Papacy in its religion while by pretending these things as Spirituall inlightnings Spirituall warmings they intend them for a vail upon the Spirit There is no such way to draw us up to the glory of Christ as by his Crosse to which the pleasing and heightning of the flesh for the most part carries a very great enmity Therefore do I not desire to cast any dif-esteem upon a severity towards the outward man even to the enslaving of it to the beating of it black and blew as Saint Paul used it so this be not to the puffing up of the fleshly mind But my Iustification or Condemnation of these things is as they stand in the comparison between these two parties and as they may stand upon the root of the same Principle or Spirit in each party Upon this account as Samuel was by Witchcraft raised out of his grave to appear before Saul with his mantle upon him So both these the Romish Papacy the Scotish-Presbytery as it hath been formerly stated by me appear like the Ghost of Iudaisme raised from the dead by that Witch of Endor the fl●…shly principle dressed up in the forme of Christianity But there is this difference The former is the Ghost of Iudaisme cloathed with the Mantle which it wore in its life time appearing in the same outward pompe with the same delicious pleasures of pictures Musick Perfumes c. as of old But the later is Iudaism undrest like an apparition in chaines or Lazarus when he came forth from the grave with the grave cloathes bound about him 2. Difference Our Southern enemies are richer our Northern ones poorer Prov. 28. 3. A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaveth no food A Legall Spirit having not the seed of GOD which is CHRIST at the bottome of it is the poorest the proudest the cruellest of all Spirits Let not this at all discourage any poor soul which under a Legall dispensation waites for Christ It is spoken only of the proud poor ones not of the poor ones oppressed under a sense of divine wrath but oppressing with the fury of a carnal rage These poor ones when they prevail are even to those other poor and meek ones as a Ho●…sl●…ech as a Barren womb as the grave ever devouring never satisfied The Legall Spirit standing in opposition to the Spirit of Christ is the barrennest of all wombes the cruellest grave 3. Difference The Scotch Presbyterie hath the purest form and in respect to the outward form is a good and great degree of reformation from the Papacy both in respect to discipline and doctrine as to the letter Now who knows not that the corruption of the best things is the worst of all corruptions Naturalists say that the Marrow of a man in which his strength lies the Brain of a man in which his wisedome is seated by Putrefaction in death generates oft times a Serpent In like manner the exactest Image of that Heavenly Man Iesus Christ if for want of the Quickning Spirit it corrupt converts its highest excellency the strength and wisedome of the letter to the enmity of the serpent against that Spirit which is the Heavenly man himself The most implacable hatred is in the nearest competition The falling out of brethren is as walls and bar●…es The son of the Bond-woman is he who stirres up the most frequent and fiery persecutions against the son of the Free-woman It is the son of the Free-woman alone who darkneth the glory of his Brother Ishmael who puts in between him and the inheritance who carries away the love of the Father from him If the spirituall seed were out of the way the Iew in the letter the Legall Professour were the only Saint neither would there be any that could step into Heaven before him If therefore the spirituall seed be not sowne in the heart of this Iew he still cryes concerning him who is born after the Spirit Let us stay him When the single divel had left the house in the Parable he returned to it again finding it swept and garnished but empty of that heavenly Man that should inhabit it he re-enters into it and takes with him seven divels more The Scotch Presbytery is a house which the evill spirit of Papacy had left a house swept clean from the filth of profanenesse garnished with the beautifull things of the letter