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A93876	The commings [sic] forth of Christ in the power of his death. Opened in a sermon preached before the High Court of Parliament, on Thursday the first of Novem. 1649. being a publike thanksgiving for the victories obtained by the Parliaments forces in Ireland, especially for the taking of Droghedah, since which Wexford also was taken. By Peter Sterry, sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge: and now preacher of the Gospel in London.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1649 (1649)	Wing S5476; Thomason E578_1; ESTC R203622	37,495	77

a Hand till it overspread the whole Heaven How high did they raise their Proud Waves with what noise They went over our Heads Their Waters came in even to our Souls Did not the cause of Fear seem just and great to the Wisest and Stoutest Spirits As that Poet at Sea cryed out Nihil est nisi Pontus Aether which way soever I looke Nothing appeares but Sea or Skie Such was our condition Nothing appeared on every side but Danger on Earth Deliverance onely from Heaven The Snares of death prevented us were before us as well as behind us What Counsell or Course so●ver we could take seemed alike to hasten Ruine like every touch of a Dead Body that hath stood many yeers in a dry Vault and falls into dust upon the Gentlest Motion This was our Distresse nay this was the Outside onely and Grosse Body It had a Spirit and Invisible Part the Life of the Danger and Distresse The Sorrowes or the Cords the Bands the Companies and Troops of Death ver. 4. The Devill hath the Power of Death Hebr. 2. 14. This is the Sting the Spirit of Death The Devill is the Cord or Chaine of Sicknesses and Death Luke 13. 16. This woman whom Satan hath bound The Devill is like Gad a Troope a Band a Multitude My name is Legion for we are many saith the Devill in the Gospell The floods of the ungodly Beli jagnall vers. 4. The Floods without a Yoake or Bridle The Floods that rebelled Floods Rivers and Waters do signifie in the Language of the Scriptures Invisible Spirits because the Visible Part of things standeth out of these and in these as the Earth standeth out of the Waters and in the Waters 2 Pet. 3. 5. This Word signifieth Floods that run low and deep in Valleyes The Grave or Hell is a Degree of Darknesse a Depth below Death It hath other Troops of Evill Spirits belonging to it One sort of Devils are the Ministers of Death Another Sort the Ministers of the Grave or Hell though Both be subject to One Chiefe the Prince of Devils Revel. 20. 13. Death and Hell or the Grave gave up the Dead which were in them The Invisible Legions from below invaded our Land The Evill Angels that had the Power of Death have been in the midst of us with their Bands hoping to swallow up our Naturall Lives and Outward Comforts to have made us a Place of Skuls instead of Men The Evill Angels that inhabit and command in the Deeps of Hell below Death these rose up out of their Bottomlesse Pit like a Smoak These designed and indeavoured to infect our Soules to darken the Sun of Righteousnesse over our Heads to carry away our immortall Spirits in a Hellish Mist of Confusion into their Accursed Mansions Our Land and Hearts should have been made the Seat of ●im Esa. 13. 22. This Word signifieth Dry Spirits Dry Devils which have nothing of the Water of Life nor are ever refresht with any Sweetnesse or Fruit fulness but labour in the Barrenness Drought Heat Darkness of the Infernall Fires according to that Mat. 12. 49. The Evil Spirit walked thorow Dry Places Thus the Fountaines of the Great Deeps of Death and Hell from below were opened upon us Such was our Distresse This is the First Head 2 Head The Deliverer He is set forth by a Twofold Description 1 Description The Place from when hee comes forth 2 Description The Pompe in which he comes forth 1 Description The Place from which Hee coms forth ver. 6. He heard my voyce out of his Temple The Lord had a Materiall Temple among the Iews But now he hath a Spirituall Temple Iesus Christ is His Temple The Lambe is the Temple Revel. 21. 22. His Saints are His Temple 1 Cor. 3. 17. Which Temple Ye are When God comes forth to make any Eminent Change in the World His First Movings are in the Spirits of His Holy Ones The Decrees are passed and fixed in Iesus Christ in Heaven The Discoveries of the Designes and First Preparation to act them upon the Stage of this visible World is from Iesus Christ in the Hearts of His Members A Philosopher is said to have foreseene and foretold an Earthquake from the motion of the Waters trembling at the Bottome of a Deep Well So do Spirituall men perceive beforehand when God is about to shake the World or a Land by the Stirrings and Prophetick Preparatory Motions in the Bottome of their Spirits which lye neer to and touch upon the Invisible World the Angelicall and Divine Nature Rome had its Shield dropt from Heaven Troy its Divine Image of Fallas While these were preserved it was impossible to destroy these Cities The Saints are the Temple of the Lord in the midst of us Preserve these with all Tendernesse For they are our Sanctuary The Presence of the Lord is with us by Jesus Christ in them God heareth our Cry and ariseth to deliver us from Jesus Christ in their Spirits This is the First Description 2 Description The Pompe in which the Deliverer comes forth ver. 9. He bowed the Heavens also and came downe God is represented as Descending in State comming down to be upon the Earth after the same manner in the same Majesty as He sits upon His Throne above Bowing the Heavens as He descends descending upon them as a Pavement to his Feet The sense is that God appeares like a God as a God Present in the midst of us Putting forth Himselfe in a Heavenly Divine Extraordinary way above the Reach beyond the Compasse of Humane Wit and Capacity as the Heavens are above the Earth The Heaven of God is the Heaven of Heavens a Spirituall Heaven God comes downe among us upon thi●Heaven upon this Mount Sion where He dwels in the midst of His Ten Thousands of Angels and Glorified Saints Thus Heaven and Hell meet upon this our Earth in the Mid-way Every Good and Evill is Spirituallized in the midst of us The Devill comes up from Hell with his Invisible Legions God comes downe from Heaven with His Invisible Chariots While Men fight Angels fight Michael and his Angels with the Dragon and his Angels He wants his Spirituall eye who hath not seene God Descending the Devill Ascending Both meeting on this Portion of the Earth in these Times and Both Contending ●onflicting sharply for the Body of Christ and Christianity among us as once they did for the Body of Moses He wants the Eye of Reason that hath not seene God and the Devill resisting one another after a Supernaturall manner by Supernaturall Powers and Policies in our Naturall and Civill affaires as Jannes and Iambres resisted Moses Who is not forced to confesse of One Party that the Hand of Satan hath bin with them as the Hand of Ioab was with the Wise woman Who likewise can deny of those Things that have been brought to passe on the Other Party That It is the finger of God Verse 10. Hee rode upon a

made The Twofold Principle 1. Of Love 2. Of Wrath are the Two Hands of Jesus Christ in or by which he worketh All Matth. 25. 33. All Good things are wrought in a Principle of Love through the Good Angels from the Right hand of Christ These things come as Effects of Divine Love as Objects for our Love All Evil things are wrought in a Principle of Wrath through the Devil from the Left hand of Christ These things come as Effects of Divine hatred as Objects for our Hatred and Grief The Divine Power worketh Two ways 1. Way By a Universal Concurrence with each Creature 2. Way By a Particular Confinement in each Creature Divines say The Creating Power as it is terminated in God is God as it is terminated in the Creature is the Creature 1. The Divine Power in its Universal Concurrence is God It is that Eternal Word going forth with every Particular Operation and Temporal Production as a Back to it The Sun and Man bring forth a Man Jesus Christ and the Creature bring forth Every work in the Creature Joh. 1. 3. Without him apart from him hath been done not any one thing which hath been done So it runs in Greek word for word 2. The Divine Power as it is Particularised Circumstantiated Confined in each Creature it is that Creature The Work in the Lowest and Least things on Gods part on Christs part is a Universal Work and therefore not to be exprest by any Particular Name except it be in a Figure onely Colos. 1. 17. Christ is said to be Before all things and all things consist {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} stand together in him Every work on Christs part is an Omni-form Work a Universal Peece in which All his Works lie together in One and are perfectly One Although on the Creatures part it be a Divided Peece a Small Particular As therefore the Name of Christ so each Work in the Creation as it is Christs and Gods is above every Name that is named both in this World and that which is to come Ephes. 1. 21. 2. God is All I know not any Place of Scripture which Countenanceth this Expression except it be That 1 Cor. 15. 28. That God may be All in All God is un-changeable He is All in All Essentially to himself He shall be All in All Manifestatively to the Creature Take these Directions for the Sense of it 1. God is not All Collectively as the World is This All a Heap a Composure of many Beings in Rank and Order Hear O Israel the Lord thy God is One 2. God is not All Distributively He is not This or That Particular Thing God is not as Man saith the Holy Ghost If God were any Particular Thing He were not an Absolute All 3. God is All by way of Efficacy as he doth All 4. God is All by way of Excellency He is the Truth Substance Life of All All Things compared with Him are Dead Pictures Shadows onely of Him as Nothing in comparison with Him 3. All Things are in God I confess that the Scriptures often speak to this Purpose Yet there is no maner of Speaking that requires more Distinction and Caution in taking a Right Sense of it Corolaries are drawn from This by all Companies of Men to colour their Apprehensions Things may be said to be in God six ways 1. Materially So none of all the Creatures can be imagined to be in God as any Part of Him as making up His Being as the Matter of It. The Divine Nature hath neither Parts nor Particulars It is Simple Undivided Un-compounded Psal. 50. 13. Will I eat the Flesh of Bulls or drink the Blood of Goats saith God The Essence of God and That alone may be said in a Figurative Sense to be as the Matter in the Godhead 2. Formally No Creature is in God formally according to its Proper Form and Being John 1. 1 5. God is Light and in Him is no Darkness at All Darkness is the Principal Thing in the very Essence and Form of the Creature I mean a Negative Darkness To what will ye liken me There is no more the Formality or Proper Essence of any Creature in the Form and Essence of God then Angels have Lips Ears Eyes The Three Persons of the Trinity are Formally in God and They alone There are Three that bear Record in Heaven 1 John 5. 3. Virtually Thus All things are of a truth in God Forasmuch as He brings forth bears up All things by the Word of His Power Heb. 1. 3. Thus All Colours are said to be in Light Heat and All Elementary Qualities in the Heavenly Bodies 4. Eminently It is most true that All things Created are in their Great Creator Eminently Psal. 139. 12. The Night shineth as the Day the Darkness and the Light are Both alike to Thee Darkness and Light are Both in God not onely Representatively but Really not in their Ideas onely but their Identities yet not Materially nor Formally but Eminently after a more Perfect maner than they are in themselves as in the Supream Unity of All Perfections So the Darkness of Sense may be a Beautiful Bright Notion or Form in the Understanding A Wound in a Bleeding Fainting Person may make a Pleasant Picture as it lies in the Riches of the Painters Fancy and Colours 5. Immediately Jesus Christ alone is this way in God 1 Cor. 3. 1. Christ is Gods As the Firmament or Eighth Sphere in which the Innumerable Stars are set is held by some to be immediately next the Empyrean Heaven or Heaven of Glory So Jesus Christ in whose Person the Saints are set like Stars lies in the Bosom of God 6. By Mediate Subordinations Heavens comprehend the Earth Themselves are comprehended of Angels Angels of Christ Christ of God For God brings forth Angels by the Mediation of Christ Col. 1. 15 16. Jesus Christ manageth this World by the Mediation of Angels Heb. 2. 5. The Angels govern the Earth by Heavenly Influences Hosea 2. 21. By this Subordination the Frame of Nature lies in God All Pure and Spiritual Things are in the Spirit of Grace Gal. 5. 25. This Spirit is in the Love of Christ Christ is in God All things Corrupt and Carnal lie in the Devil 1 John 5. 19. The Devil lies in the Wrath of Christ Christ is in God Accordingly the Ideas or Original Images of things have a Proportioned Order in the Divine Nature For God is a God of Order not of Confusion in His own Essence On this Mount is the Pattern of that Order which is set in the Church and the Creation Jesus Christ who is the Word the Book of God the Eternal Image of All Images in the Eye of God He is a Wisdom This Wisdom is the Platform of that which is drawn out in the Creation of Nature the Regeneration of Grace the Condemnation of the Devil 4. All is God This seemeth to me the Unsafest Phrase The Holy Ghost