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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61473	Free grace exalted, and thence deduced evangelical rules for evangelical sufferings : in two discourses made 29 March, and 10 May 1670, from Rom. 5, 21.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1670 (1670)	Wing S5480; ESTC R38299	24,282	32

before that he cries out This is none other but the house of God this is the gate of Hea●●● Let us not fear what will befall us while we be obedient to the heavenly vision in the face of Christ we may be cast out of our Fathers house by our churlish Brethren from our own houses estates and joys of this life to wants and nakedness But behold their God will appear to us that we shall say O blessed experience I am cast out of my own house but here I am in the house of my God where I shall dwell for evermore 2ly God will be with thee in his spirit not a spirit of grace only but a spirit of glory God will be with thee in the spirit unvailed and give thee the sweetest view of his naked face he will in this spirit of grace and glory poure out himself in the highest delights to thy bosome and take thee to his bosome to the fountain of love and sweetness making himself with thee one spirit of Joy beauty sweetness love and light all your graces shall be turned into glories now as Gold by the fire is heightned to a lustre the spirit shall be in every grace comfort and truth a spirit of glory God shall say to you come out from the possessions and joyes of this world to the naked open field there I will bring thee to my garden and there I will sing of my loves come out of the Tabernacles of clay come with me my love to my banquetting house there I will give thee my loves there I will spread my banner of love more gloriously then ever you saw it and you shall be more sick of love for me and I will more abundantly satisfie thy love Thirdly God will now be with thee to rest on thee to continue with thee not as in your prosperity like a waifairing man to give a visit for a night and away no he will say thou hast left and lost comfort of relations friends ready to lose thy life now I will not leave thee alone I will be house and land gardens and orchard sweet relations all joys of life I le be the pillar of fire and pillar of cloud at once to thee by day and by night I le be a firm security to thee a fire shining round about thee with flames of purest glory most ravishing sweetness divinest love I le be a sweet cloud overshadowing thee distilling on thee peace and rest I will keep thee in perpetual safety by my over shadowing thee I will never leave thee alone while you sleep I le watch over thee when you awake I will talk with thee I will entertain thee I will speak of my Kingdom and glory and in all thy walks I will guide thee I will tell thee of the union between thee and me which is an unsearchable mistery to the natural man I will celebrate before thee my everlasting love my light life and love shall be the way in which you shall walk in which you shall go from one delight to another till you come to eternal joys in my self Lastly when you suffer for the grace of God it appears from this Scripture the God of all grace will rest in thee that is will lay himself down in thy bosome and give thee full satisfaction highest complacency and joy that you are capable of when Christ was baptized Heaven was opened upon him and God came down in the form of a Dove and said This is my well beloved Son in whom I am well pleased Oh who would not with Jesus Christ enter into a Baptisme of the deepest affliction the greatest suffering to have God as the Heaven of Heavens opening himself about thee and come in a Dove-like form in purest love speaking such words as these this is my beloved Child in whom my soul is well pleased now is my joy full in thee and thy joy shall be full in me and I will glorifie thee with my self these sufferings themselves shall be a Crown of glory Thus my beloved make the grace of God the only solace to you in sufferings and set these Rules before you in suffering from the grace of God for the grace of God as a Ministry of love and in attendance on it obedience to it to walk in God as he is love and have nothing but this love dwell in you suffer with a spirit of grace and love springing up into all grace suffer with a gracious behaviour where nothing but love to all springs up a divine love like the love of our Saviour making you in suffering a sacrifice of a Lamb for all in love and then let this grace of God this grace which is the highest love beauty and joy which is God himself in highest love and joy coming to you and taking you to himself let this be your solace in suffering and so the God of grace and peace shall keep you whether you live or dye he shall sow the Fruits of Righteosness in peace which shall spring up in peace to your selves and all round about you And thus much for this Exhortation FINIS Rules

't is a Dove as the eyes of the Spouse a spirit composed of the purity of a spiritual and heavenly loveliness and in the simplicity of this loveliness it flows out in love to all without regard to this party or the other party without quarrelling and so in its life it sows the fruit of righteousness in peace in the purity love peacebleness and gentleness of this spirit and so makes peace and springs up into peace Oh that our Lord Jesus were ever in our eye and heart as a pattern when he was Crucified he died to be a Sacrifice of Love to those that Crucified him when his blood was poured out with the greatest malice he shed it to wash away their sins that spilt it to make his blood a heavenly wine in the kingdome of his Father for those very sinners to drink of and receive a new life to have fellowship with him in his life his last-breath was spent in a Dove-like breathing and giving a kiss of love to those souls that Crucified him in these words Father forgive them for they know not what they do what a kiss of kindness was this to those souls that were with the greatest rage Crucifying him Oh suffer ye in like manner 'T is said the blood of the Saints is the seed of the Church when you suffer let your loss and suffering be with this spirit to sow a pretious seed of grace and love of peace and righteousness to spring up in the souls of those by whom you suffer by your heavenly love and meekness in suffering If you dye suffering on account of the grace of God let the breathings of your soul to the last be an offering of prayers in the behalf of those that cause your sufferings that God may pardon them and delight in them to do them good and bring them to the same rest of God with you My fourth Rule is Let grace be in your outward behaviour when you suffer It is said of the Spouse that milk and honey are under her tongue so in your deportments carriage looks or words let there appear nothing of the venome of the Serpent nothing of the fierceness of the Wolf let all be Lamb-like let your eyes be Doves-eyes let every action and word be milk and honey pure true wise healing nourishing gentle softning sweetning as spices when they are thrown into a fire send out a sweet perfume to recreate the sences of those that threw them into the fire such should the suffering of a Saint breathing out the sweetness of heavenly joy and love to those that cast them into the fire to allure them into the fellowship of this grace and so heap coals of fire upon their heads according to that of the Apostle 1 Cor. 4.12 Being reviled we bless A fifth Rule is this Let the Grace of God be your onely solace in all your sufferings I shall only gloss a little on two Scriptures and so conclude the first is in Rom. 8.35 Who shall seperate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation distress or persecution famine or nakedness peril or sword nay in all these things we are more then conquerours through him that loved us for I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor any creature shall be able to seperate from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. The grace of God that we have been speaking of and the love of God here in the Text are all one how sweet and full of consolation is this grace in suffering the love and grace of God which shines out and lives in the glorified person of Jesus Christ is the same that he communicates to his Saints and lives in them And now whatever suffering comes to a Saint no part of it shall ever come between you O Saint and this bosome of love nothing shall seperate from this love A cloud of suffering may surround you and be black without to those that look on it but this cloud within shall like the Tabernacle with Badgers skins without all glorious within shall be full of divine love to you this cloud shall not come between you and this love of God the grace of God shall be between you and every cloud They say of the Romans of old that they had a sort of linnen that would not be burnt in the fire and after they had burned the dead as was their custome they took up the bones and wrapt them in that linnen and therein burnt them to ashes to keep the ashes unmixt from the common ashes Let what suffering will come let what fire will be kindled upon you you are wrapt in the bosome of the Lord Jesus and whatever operation the fire may have upon you it 〈◊〉 do you no hurt for you are safe wrapt up in that love which the fire cannot hurt The houses of great persons have naked bare dead damp walls in them when the owners family is from thence but when they come to their houses they furnish them with rich hangings which are beautiful to the eye and keep the rooms warm and serve for recreation to entertain the indwellers with some pleasant stories which are described in them O my beloved every state of suffering into which a Saint comes is a distinct room of the Pallace of the great King of Glory and his Bridegroom and though that condition be like bare walls damp melancholy and naked yet when you come into it having this grace of God accompanying you in every state now it is furnisht richly for you with love as for an heire of glory with the grace of God which is the light of Divine love beauty and joy all in one God in Christ shining in the simplicity of all his love doth as with hangings of glory furnish thy room now the deformity of the walls is covered with divine beauty now the damp of the walls is taken away with the warmth of divine love now the melancholy is taken away and you are entertained with pleasant stories of this love and its glory all in this furniture in this love of God which comes between thee and sufferings and present themselves to thee according to all wisdome and prudence My last Scripture is 1 Pet. 4.14 If ye are reproacht for the name of Christ happy are yo● for the spirit of God and of glory rests on you Let me give you a few considerations from this word of grace First when you suffer as a Saint God is with you he presents himself and appears to thee in grace and love So it was with Jacob he was by Esau's ill will cast out of his Fathers house sent away poor and alone with my staff I went over saith he he wanders in a large field and meets with a dark night and a hard bed having a cold stone for his sorrowful head to sleep upon but behold there he met with that presence of God that spirit of God and of glory in such eminency as he never saw