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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61477	The way of God with his people in these nations opened in a thanksgiving sermon, preached on the 5th of November, 1656, before the Right Honorable the High Court of Parliament / by Peter Sterry.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1657 (1657)	Wing S5487; ESTC R14198	34,785	58

THE WAY of GOD WITH HIS PEOPLE IN THESE NATIONS Opened in A Thanksgiving Sermon preached on the 5th of November 1656. before the Right Honorable the High Court of Parliament By PETER STERRY LONDON Printed by Peter Cole Book-seller and Printer and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange 1657. FOR THE RIGHT HONORABLE The High Court of Parliament The Epistle Dedicatory Right Honorable I Have obeyed your Commands in Printing this Sermon as I did in Preaching it O that in both the Sermon may prove an Alablaster Box and the Name of Jesus Christ as an Oyntment powred forth from it We are in a Wilderness Clouds of Darkness and Doubt Fires of Danger Dissention and Wrath are in the midst of us round about us That the Presence of Christ may be the Pillar of a Cloud and of Fire to go before you as a Light in Difficulties to stand behind you as a Defence in Dangers is the continual Prayer of Your Honors most humble Servant in Christ PETER STERRY Fryday the 7th of Novemb. 1656. ORdered by the Parliament That Mr. Sterry have the Thanks of this House for his great Pains taken in his Sermon preached before this House at Margarets Westminster on the 5th of Novemb. Being a day set apart for Publick Thanksgiving and that he be desired to Print his Sermon and that he have the like Priviledg in Printing as hath been formerly allowed to others in like Cases And that Col. John Jones do give him the Thanks of this House accordingly Henry Scobell Clerk of the Parliament A SERMON preached before the Right Honorable House of Parliament on the 5. of November 1656. Being a Thanksgiving Day for the Victory over the Spaniards West-Indie Fleet Isaiah 9. 5. For every battel of the warriour is with confused noise and Garments rolled in Blood but this shal be with burning and Fuel of fire THis verse is a Prophecy of the deliverance of Jerusalem from the siege by Sennacherib of which you have the compleat Hystory afterwards in this Book Chap. 36. Chap. 37. In the first verse of this Chapter mention is made of Two dark seasons which affected the Kingdom of Israel One was when Tiglath Pilezer invaded part of the Land and carryed part of the people into Captivity of which you may read 2. Kings 15. 29. The other was when Salmanaser over-run the whol Land carryed captive the generality of the people and set an end to that Kingdom The Lord comforteth his people of the Kingdom of Judah that the trouble which was to come upon them by Sennacherib should not be so grievous as either of these For saith he Nevertheles the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the Land of Naphtali and afterwards did more grievously affict her by the way of the Sea Jordan in Galile of the Nations The second verse is a great Promise of Deliverance The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light they that dwel in the Land of the shadow of death upon them hath the light shined The Prophet speaks of al the Jews in both Kingdoms as one Body When the Kingdome of Israel was laid wast it is probable that many of those ten Tribes fled into the land of Judah When Sennacherib invaded Judah ruining the Countreys as he passed with his army the multitude of the people retyred before him into Jerusalem The King of Assyria besiegeth that great City and with his mighty Army over shadows it as with Darkness and the shadow of Death Now in the thickness of this darkness a light ariseth and shines forth upon the people by the prayer of Hezekiah the prophecy of Esaiah the descent of the Lord from Heaven by a mighty Angel Behold the difference which God makes between the Kingdom of Israel and of Judah those who set up Calves to themselves who worship the maker of Heaven and Earth after the Imaginations of their own heart in the Images and works of their own hands and those who worship him in his own Temple at Jerusalem which is a figure of Jesus Christ the only Image of the Invisible God as he makes himself known to us by his own Spirit You have three sences of the first part of the 3. verse Thou hast meltiplyed the Nation and hast not increased the joy Some apply this to Sennacheribs Army which was so numerous and a Collection of so many Nations The Heathen were gathered together agaiust Jerusalem in vast numbers but they had no joy in it proportionable to their Combinations and their Confidence Others interpret it of the Jews shut up in Jerusalem during the siege You may read the words as the Margin points it out to you in stead of Thou hast not increased the joy thou hast increased the joy to hi● that is to Hezekiah who was then King of Judah as if he should say Thou hast by occasion of this siege multiplied the people round about Hezekiah in Jerusalem and now in the Eyes of them al thou settest him up on high and increas●st his joy by that Miracle which thou workest to deliver them for his sake Or else there is a sweet Antithesis or Opposition in the words On Sennacheribs part thou multipliest the Nation his Army and outward strengths but thou increasest the joy to Hezekiah They joy before thee according to the joy of harvest and as men rejoyce when they divide the Spoile This was the joy of the people of God when they came forth from the City and found the dead bodys of their enemies lying in the fields like Corn newly cut down and their treasures like ful Ears of Corn We may observe two things from this verse First The end of affliction frequently is to gather up beleevers close to Jesus Christ in his own person or in the Anoyntings of his spirit upon some chosen ones that he may increase the honor and joy of these in the sight of al the people by that Salvation which he works thorow them and for their sakes Secondly The joy of the Saints in their deliverances is a Double joy a Harvest of spiritual glories and consolations in the appearances of God to them the spoil of the enemy whose Power and wealth becomes theirs while they are cut off by the appearances of God for his beloved Thus Jesus Christ at the same time ascended into Heaven to the Father and spoyled the powers and Principalities of this world carrying Captivity Captive Thus our Savior tels the Saints that what ever they lose that is dear to them in this world they shal have it again an hundred-fold and everlasting Life There is the harvest of Spiritual joyes everlasting Life There is the spoil of the enemy and Captivity Captivated when they recover al the Beautys joyes sweetnesses of this world out of the hand of the enemy and have them an