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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

cloud and thick darknesse He comes as a VVarriour to the battell of that great day Revel. 16. v. 14 15. This comming from the North is that houre of temptation upon the Whole Earth which is threatned in the time of the Sixth Church Rev. 3. 10. but fals out in the times of the Seventh Church the fifth and Sixth vials Wo to you Ye Glorious Hypocrites who say you want nothing but indeed are Poor who wear your Garments loosly about you My Heart aketh for you The LORD commeth upon you as a Thief in the Nigh unawares unseen to steal your Party-Coloured coverings from you and dip them in Blood to uncover your Nakednesse and lay open your shame to every Eye Alas for you Ye daughters of Hierusalem You who live under the Sabbath of a Legall Dispensation you who are big with child of the Spirituall Seed but have not yet brought forth That Spirit which is born of the Spirit You who have that Spirituall Seed brought forth in you but still feed it as a Babe with the Milk of carnall Administrations you with whom it is winter whose Spiritual sappe is sunk down into its Root while you sleep My bowels earn and sound within mefor you Ye daughters of Hierusalem How hard will your flight be from before the whirlwind from the NORTH how great will your Amazement be when your Eyes shall behold the Glory of the LORD to depart from off the Temple of Outward Administations on which it hath long stood nay to destroy both this Temple and this Hierusalem As for you whether will you go for comfort when the fiery Wheels of my Saviours Chariot shal be brought over all your fleshly Excellencies and Enjoyments But be of Good cheer These throws this dissolution of the earthly mother shall bring forth a heavenly man-child into the World in which she shall live again and remember her Sorrow no more This comming of your GOD from the NORTH is as Iosephs Rule in the years of Famine as Davids Raign in Bloud It ushers in Benjamin's Glorious Rest Solomons Temple It prepares the way for the Kings of the East 2. I should now speak of the comming from the East But the time is not yet If Master Brightman do not erre in placing Laodicea on this Land I hope I have not done much amisse in fixing on these times that Church the fifth and sixth viall the sitting of the Iudgement in Daniel the comming from the North in Ezekiel in my Text For all these Scriptures seem to me to be manifestly Paralel and Contemporary Blessed are we who have lived to see this Comming of the Glory of God from the NORTH But blessed and happy are they who shall live then when this King of Kings with his Race of Kings shall come from the way of the East to go into the House of his Rest. In the mean time this is thy comfort O thou Sister-Spouse of the Lamb He comes Behold he comes to thee in this stormy night not as a Thief but a Guest a Bridegroom Behold he stands at thy door and knocks by all these loud noises Open the door let him in he will set up his chariot in thine heart he will come into thy spirit he will sup with thee feast with thee upon this glory and Iye with thee all this night Object Perhaps some will say changes and expectations were as great in Luthers time as now Yet what hath the issue of all those things been but desolation Answ. 1. What hath the issue of all those things been Desolations on the Earth but discoveries increases of light upon the Saints even unto this day Luther had this honour to live to see his Doctrine received publickly professed established by many populous Countreys and Cities many great Provinces and Princes in Peace for many years There was peace all his dayes Immediately after his death the sa●…e or the very next year that fire of War brake forth which hath never been well quencht since that time Answ. 2. Noah was a Preacher of Righteousnesse He prophesied of the Flood 120 years before it came The like figure unto this doth Luther seem●… to be He was the Preacher of Iustification only by faith by Christ by the Righteousnesse of God in Christ He prophesied of a deludge of fire while he often witnessed to the World that Antichrist was to be destroyed by the brightnesse of Christs coming This was 1520 or 30 after Christ Compute from thence 120 years the summe will amount to 1640 or 50 which falls upon the present season The Flood came accordingly in the year from the Creation 1656. How near is that year 1656 from Christ Of what Eclipses what dreadfull signes in heaven above in earth below do we hear to come to passe in the years immediately preceding this Tremble O ye Inhabitants of the Earth a flood of fire is coming upon all the World The windows of heaven are already open and begin to rain down streams of fire The springs of the great deep are broken up and send forth their flames Ye meek Ones enter into the Ark which your Saviour and you have been long making ready in your spirits against this day when the flood should come What is this Ark Is it not the chariot of the Lord the appearance of the glory of God of your beloved Iesus in heavenly state within you Go in to this Ark the Lord shall shut you in till the storme be past Go up to this chariot sit quietly there by the side of your Saviour till that cloud break up and show you in glory But it is now time to conclude Is it so Is this then the Age Is this the Land in which our Lord Iesus ascends from the NORTH Doth he now call up the clouds and winds to minister to him Doth he now from hence begin as a Bridegroom to come forth from his Chamber as a Giant or Warriour refresht with wine to run his race unto the ends of the Earth Speak ye Virgins who are not falne asleep Is your Lord on his way Is this the noise Are these the fires flashes of his chariot-wheels You who have eyes exercised on spirituall sights who watch for the Morning tell us Have you seen your Beloved look forth like the morning a sweet light out of a black darknesse Faire as the Moon in his naturall Image the first Creation Pure as the Sun with the essentiall substantiall glory of his spiritual Image Terrible as an Army with Banners The horses and wheels of his chariot are his Army Angels Stars Elements n●…w made fighting for him in the newnesse of their courses Himself in his flaming person above the heads of these is the terrible Banner lifted up It is so The Lord is upon his white-horses of divine discoveries He rides on prosperously with his Sword girt upon his thigh Right Honourable Princes Prophets People remember now your dyivg Saviours charge Take heed of surfetting on the comforts or cares of this Life Watch and be sober As Elijah girt himself and run along with Ahabs chariot So gird up the loyns of your minde run along with the chariot of your King If through sloth or sleep you be cast behinde if the Bride-groom enter into his chamber and the door be shut upon him you will be left without in utter darknesse where is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth But woe to those who resist the progresse of his outgoings The wheels of his chariot shall be brought over these the feet of his horses shall tread them in pieces and dogs devour that which is left of them as it was with Iesabel But you which have heard the Lord Iesus plainly saying to you When you were under the figtree of outward dispensations and expectations I saw you run to him call him Master follow him still you shall see greater things then these you shall see the heavens opened Angels descending and ascending upon the heavenly person of Christ discovered as a ladder joyning heaven and earth in which ladder every Rowel is a spiritual a living glory FINIS 1. Cor. 12. 31. Rom. 15 7. Can. 6. 8 Can. 2. 2 Psa. 16. 3 Luke 1 Doctrine Reason 1. Part. 2. Part. 3. Part. Vse 1. Comparison of Scotch Presbytery and Romish Papacy Cautions 1. Agreem. 3. Agreem. 4. Agreem. 5. Agreem. 6. Agreem. 1. Differ 2. Differ 3. Differ Matth. 12. 44. 4. Differ Cant. 7. 11 1●… Prov. 30. 19. 1 Cor. 11. 7. Psal. 8. 2. 2. Use 1. Question Answer 2. Question Answer 1. Reason 2. Reason 3. Reason Rom. 11. 17 18 Rom. 11. 9. 2 Cor. 3. 13. c. Rom. 11. 12. 3. Question Answer Rev. 11. 8. 1. Anti 2. Antichrist Heb. 6. 4 5 6. Matt. 24. 15. Mark 13. 14. 1 King 11. 9. P●… Num 24. 3 4. Mic. 3 11. Revel. 2. 14. 1 Cor. 10. 8. 3. Quest Ans. Ezek. 1. Rev. 11. 12. and 4. 2. 12. 1. Psal. 8. 10. 1 Sam. 4. 4. Exod. 25 17. Chashmal 2 Cor. 12. 2 Psal. 14●… Exod. 24. 10. 1 Observat. Ezek. 43. 3. Isa. 14. 13. 2 Observat. Zach. 14. 5. 3 Observat. Ezek. 1. v. 7. v. 13. 2. Rev. 21. 22. 1. Interest 1. Consid. Pergamut hath the NEW name Rev. 2. 17. 2. Consid. 3 Consid. Lu●…ius A. C. 170. Constantine he Great A. C. 270. born in Brittain of Constantius and Helene daughter to Coil Duke of Colchester Gen. 49. v. 22 23 24 25 26. Deut. 23 v. 13. 14 15 16 17. Gen. 49. v. 1. Deut. 13. 12. 4. Consid 2 Interest Rev. 3. 14. Mat. 24. 19. Object Answ. 1. Answ. 2. Cant. 6. 9.

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

is signified by Egypt to the Iews and what by their being brought up out of it Ans. This is plain in the Letter of the Scriptures and needeth no answer to those who have read Moses and his Book of Exodus 2. Question What is meant by the NORTH as to the children of Israel Answer Babylon stood NORTH to the Holyland and the Return from the Captivity at the end of the seventy years was a Bringing up of the People of GOD from the NORTH But that cannot be the Meaning here for Three Reasons 1. Reas. The Return from Babylon was not with such an out-stretched Arm with such a Glory of Miracles of the Divine Presence it was not to such a Rest as the comming up out of Egypt had been 2. Reas. The Children of Israel were not all brought back from the NORTH at that time only Two Tribes and these but in part 3. Reason My Text joyns with the bringing up of Israel from the NORTH the bringing of them from all places into which they have been scattered which was never yet done These two universalities of the Promise for all Israel and from all places remain unaccomplished to this day When GOD brought up Israel his son out of Egypt He planted him as a vineyard with a Legall Dispensation with fleshly Ordinances a Tabernacle a Temple a VVorship a Presence a Glory appertaining to these But Ieshurun waxed fat with these fleshly VVorships He kick'd the Heel against his Master that fed him his Father that brought him up He set up the Temple above the LORD of the Temple he holds up the Ordinances against him when he came who was Greater then the Ordinances and the End of them all Then did God thunder from Heaven against his Holy Things and consume them with his Lightnings Then did he scatter Israel into a Dispersion a Desolation where he wanders abides shut up without Priest or Teraphim even untill now When the Nation of the Iews was taken away Christians in the Letter immediatly succeed into their place They sit down at a Table of fleshly Ordinances They also are in snared by their Table Their Hearts grow fat their Eyes are closed up with flesh They see not to the End of the Letter and therefore cannot own the Lord that Spirit when He comes to those who are under the Letter as to his own Christians succeeding the Iews in Ordinances in Idolizings of the Letter in rejection of the Lord the life of the letter for the leter's sake succeed them also in their desolations dispersions and shall at last accompany them in their return to their everlasting rest 3. Question What Egypt signifies in the state of Christianity Answer Egypt is Sodome the Mother of fornications and Witchcraft Antichrist is Egypt and Sodome Spiritually as Iesus Christ is Goshen and Canaan the land of light of rest There are many Anti-christs but two principle ones 1. The Anti-christ to the letter 2. The Anti-christ in the letter to the Spirit 1. The Anti-christ to the letter This is like the Samaritans of old a spirit of Heathenism and profanenesse bringing forth it self into a loose profession of Christianity that it may oppose it self to the purity of holinesse according ●…o the letter and perseeute Iesus Christ in the fleshly mani●…estations of himself This is that spirituall Egypt which will not suffer the people of God to go forth three dayes●…ourney into the VVildernesse to worship on Mount Sinai 〈◊〉 the outward purity of ordinances and legall cleansings of ●…e flesh 2. The Anti-christ in the letter to the Spirit through an annoynting in the flesh with many heavenly gifts unto the illumination and sanctification of the flesh unto tasts of touches of a Spirituall a Heavenly sweetnesse and power becometh an enemy to the Heavenly substance to Jesus Christ as he is a Quickning Spirit This is that Spirituall Egypt which will not suffer the people of God to go forth free from Mount Sinai three dayes journey further through the Wildernesse through the death of Christ to worship on Mount Sion This is the Abomination of desolation set up in the Holy Place or where it ought not to be of which JESUS CHRIST speaketh It is the ordinary phrase of Scripture to call an Idol an Abomination Now this is the setting up of an Idol where it ought not to be even in the Holy place The spirituall whore cloathes her self with the ordinances of Christ she washes and bathes her self in the letter of the Scriptures untill her flesh shine with the exact purity of an outward holinesse she perfumes her self with the sweet savours of the oyntments of the spirit decks her self with the fleshly manifestations of the Heavenly Bridegroom as with Jewels When she hath done all this she shews her self for the Ierusalem above the true Mother of all the Saints she persecutes the Free-woman out of the world into the Wildernesse that she may with the more ease and quiet passe for her The lovers of this whore cry up the glory of Christ in the flesh his ordinances his outward word his appearances to his impressions on the earthly man fo●… a pretence that they may cry down Iesus Christ as h●…comes in the glory of the Father as he is the new and he●…venly man This is the Highest Abomination being thus set up in t●…holie Place in the Sanctuary it self to maintain an opp●…sition to the invisible glory of the most Holy Place whi●… is within the vail As this is that highest Abomination so it brings t●… greatest desolation along with it It makes desolate that h●…ly Place those holy things in which it is set up Ordinances Qual fications Manifestations the Flesh of CHRIST the letter of the Scriptures it scatters the flock of CHRIST one from another into the Wildernesse it brings the death of JESUS CHRIST as a sign upon them it drives them out into a Cold Frozen Barren Dark Desolate state as into the Corners of the NORTH Right Honourable Twice have those Two Spirituall Egypts when you have been carryed forth from the midst of them with a mighty Arm followed you with Mighty Hosts to bring you back again into a Land of darknesse and House of Bondage Twice hath the LORD over-whelmed them in the Red Sea of their own Blood Two severall Quarrels have you had with these two Egypts Your first Quarrell with the one was for the Purity of the Letter and Ordinances against a Spirit of Profanenesse and Superstition Your second Quarrell with the other was for the freedom of the Spirit in his holy his heavenly Outgoings goings before you both as to Religion and Civill Rule against the Letter and Ordinances perversly opposed to the Spirit which is the Light Life Truth End of both Two severall Testimonies hath the LORD given on your side against your Enemies in these two quarrels as for your Enemies He hath made