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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61470	The clouds in which Christ comes opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament, upon the solemne day of their monthly fast, Octob. 27, 1647 / by Peter Sterry ...	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1648 (1648)	Wing S5475; ESTC R16803	32,320	66

in the Salutation is Prayer This hath a Three-fold Description of our Saviours Divine Person 1. A Distinction of Times in the Person of Christ 2. A Distinction of Things 3. An Union of Times and Things in Him A distinction of Times in Christ This you may reade in the 4. verse From Him Which Is Which Was and Which is to Come The whole Frame of Things is built with a Three-fold Partition like the Temple which makes a Three-fold Kingdome 1. That of Nature 2. That of the Mediatour 3. That of the Father These Three Kingdomes have their Full Revolutions and Severall Periods in that One Majestick Person of our Saviour 1. The Kingdome of Nature lyes in the Glory of Christs Person as Past The first Creation was a kind of Incarnation for in that the Image of God was made Flesh Jesus Christ was the Seed of the world God calls him The Seed of the Woman Gen. 3.15 He is the Seed in the Woman which Sends Her forth and Growes up out of Her The Woman and the World are to Jesus Christ as the Corne to the Blade Eare and Huske You reade Rev. 1.15 The Feet of Christ were like unto Fine Brasse as if they were Burning in a Fornace The Formes of Nature are the Feet of the Lord Jesus These are in the Divine Brightnesse of his Immortall Person as in a Flame Consumed in the Heat of a Greater Glory yet stil Conspicuous and Transparent through the Light of it Therefore in this Kingdome our Lord raignes with this Title He That Was. 2. The Kingdome of the Mediatour This is the Vnion or Marriage of the Two other Kingdoms of Nature and the Father Time and Eternity This is as a Flourishing Picture which consists of Light and Shadow making of Both One Beauty God is the Light the Creature the Shadow which here are interwoven and shine mutually The Creature By God God In the Creature so Both make but One Appearance One Kingdome This is the Middle-state of things Thorow this God first Descends into Nature Thorow this All Things Ascend and return again out of Nature unto God Therefore this is cal'd Regnum Mediatorium This is properly the Kingdome of Christ as he is the Mediator In this our Lord Jesus is according to his Proper State and Person known by This name He That Is. 3. The Kingdome of the Father Here the God-head reignes in the Fulnesse of an Unmixt the Freedome of an Unlimited Glory The Kingdome of Christ is ever in Motion till at last it roul it selfe into this sea where it Perfectly loseth and yet more Perfectly then ever keeps its own Distinct State This is the First Description A Distinction of Things in the Person of Christ And from the seven Spirits which are before His Throne ver. 4. If these Spirits were Angels they would in this place justifie and reward the Papists in their prayers to those Flaming Ministers God is a Spirit but He is One These then are some Middle-thing not by Negation that cannot be but by Participation Seven is the Perfect number of the Creature comprehending its Labour and its Rest its Six Dayes and its Sabbath Seven times Seven is the Great Jubile the Joy of All Things in which they are Free and Return to their First State God then As He varies himselfe into all the Distinct Formes of the Creature as he carries them on thorow their Severall Changes till he carry them up to His own Vnchangeable Rest So He is a Seven-fold Spirit And this is the Spirituall Person of our Lord Jesus Pan's Pipe composed of seven reeds Seven being known by learned men for the Marriage-number Revel. 5.6 A Lamb stands with seven hornes and seven eyes which are The Seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth This is that Great Spirit our Lord Jesus who in the form of a Seven-fold Spirit like a River with seven heads le ts forth the God-head and the Creation one into another The Union of all Times and Things in One Person This is the first part of the fifth verse This Vnion is set forth by a Three-fold Expression 1. The Appearance of all things in Christ 2. The Presence of Christ in all 3. The Power of Christ over all 1. The Appearance of all things in Christ Iesus Christ the faithfull witnesse Our Lord Jesus in glory is become the Image and the Light The Image in which Each Thing is seen The Light by which that Image appears So He is both the Testimony and the Witnesse He is the Faithfull witnesse For He is the Truth of all things Every thing is seen in Him according to its most Right most Proper and Solidest Appearance 2. The Presence of Christ in all The first-born from the dead v. 5. c. 1. Our Lord Jesus was in Nature so He became capable of dying He sinks himselfe out of Nature into The Darknesse which is a Shadow flying round about this Creation so He dyes Thorow this Darknesse he shoots forth himselfe into the Light of God which encompasseth all So He is risen from the dead By His Presence in Nature all things put forth themselves there For all subsist in him Colos. 1.17 By His Death all things die His Death being the Vniversal one including and bringing forth all Particular deaths For the world is crucified by the Crosse of Christ By His Resurrection all things are raised into the Life of God as the Soul raiseth all the parts of the Body making to it selfe so many severall Resurrections in them Thus is Christ the First-born from the Dead This is He Present in All Things Passing thorow All States 3. Power over all The Prince of the Kings of the earth c. 1. v. 5. All Principalities and Powers visible or invisible are streames in which Jesus Christ flowes forth from God pouring forth himselfe at last into God againe So have we gone thorow the Prayer in the Salutation as it containes a Three-fold Description of our Saviours High and Heavenly Person 2. Praise This second part of the Salutation which raiseth it selfe by a quick sweetnesse of change unto Praise is comprehended in the latter part of the fifth verse and the sixth The Praises sing forth the Person of Christ in a Two-fold Description First Love Secondly Lustre 1. Love This Love of our Sweet Saviour hath a double Preciousnesse in it 1. The Affection To him that hath loved v. 5. 2. The Effect This is Three-fold 1. Our Justification And hath wash't us in his blood 2. Sanctification Hath made us Priests to God his Father 3. Glorification Hath made us Kings 2. Lustre To him be Glory and Dominion for ever and ever Glory is the Reflexion of Beauty from every Appearance Dominion is the Power or Fulnesse that comprehends and sends forth each Appearance This is the Lustre of our Saviours Divine Person 'T is set with the Roots and Rags of all Being It hath in it selfe the Power that puts forth