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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

is a Reciprocall Union God maketh himselfe One Spirit with thee in thy lowest state He puts on thy Weaknesses and Infirmities Matth. 8. 17. He took our Diseases and bare our Infirmities The Lo●d takes off our Diseases by taking them on Himselfe He beares our Infirmities whi●e He is made One with us in them So He beares up us and our Infirmities both at once in one The Lord maketh us One Spirit with Himselfe in His high Estate We put on His Strength Ephes. 6. 10. The surest way of Mastering Things is by being One with their Principle The Principle of all things is the Lord A Saint is One Spirit with the Lord and so One with the Supreame Principle of things thorow which he hath a Soveraigne Power over them I am able to doe all things thorow Christ that strengtheneth me saith St. Paul Philip 4. 13. The whole Creation is a Ship God is the Pilot. Jesus Christ is the Helme by which God governes and turnes about the World A Saint is One Piece with Christ in the Helm He hath his Hand with the Father upon this Helme Thus he rules in the World sitting at the Helm of things in the Lap of his Father and growing into One Helme or Rudder with Christ by His Embraces All things are Yours and You are Christs and Christ is Gods 1 Cor. 3. This is the First Demonstra●ion that God is the Strength of a Good Man the Vnion between him and his God 2. Demonstra God and His People have Both One Interest One End The Interest of God in the World is the exaltation of Iesus Christ Psal. 8. 6. I will proclaim the Decree I have set my King upon mine Holy Hill of Sion The Interest of a Christian is Iesus Christ in the World Philip 1. 21. To me to live is Christ 22. If I live in the Flesh this is the fruite of my Labour The End which God hath is His Glory in the Saints Eph. 1. 18. what is His Inheritance in the Saints That which God desires to Inherit of all that he hath plan●ed and set in the Creature The Harvest which He waits for from all that he hath sown in the World is the Maturity of His Glory in His Children The End which a Christian hath in the World is the Glory of the Lord in himselfe Phil. 1. 20. Christ also shall be magnified in my Body whether by Life or by Death As Christ appeares so a Saint appeares in the World Coloss. 3 4. When Christ who is our Life shall appeare then shall we also appeare together with him in Glory As Christ is seen and set up God shines out among men 2 Cor. 4. 6. The Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Thus God and a Good Man have their Merchandise bound up together They have all their Riches lad●n in One Bottom Their Interests Ends being the same must of necessity be carried on by the same Tide and Winde the same Streame of Providence and Breathing of the Spirit 3 Demonstra The Secret of God is with a Good Man Ps●lm 25. 14. The Secret of the Lord is with them that feare him The Jewes call this Secret the Shekinah which being interpreted is the Dwelling-place or Tabernacle of God with Man the Divine Presence So it is expounded Psal. 31. 20. Thou shalt hide them in the Secret of thy Presence from the Pride of man thou shalt keep them secretly in a Pavilion from the strife of Tongues The Secret of the Lord is His Presence an Invisible Glory circling in a Saint and hiding him within a Ring of Divine Beames This is the Pavilion of the Godhead set up in every Member of Christ pitcht over his Head and planting it selfe round about him This Secret or Invisible Pavilion of the Divine Presence is described Rev 4. 2. Immediatly I was in the Spirit and a Throne was set in Heaven and one sa●e on the Throne Here you have a Secret For all is a Discovery in the Spirit manifest onely to a Spirituall Eye a Mystery hidden from the World of Flesh and Blood You have for the Pavilion a Heaven with a Throne in i● The Divine Presence is exp●est by One sitting on the Throne Vers 5. And out of the Throne proceeded Lightnings and Thundrings and Voyces By these are represented the Severall Orders or Rankes of things in the Creation together with all their Various Workings from the Highest Glory of Invisible Angels to the Lowest and most Divided Dust of Visible and Bodily Things united by Intermediate Spirits standing between Both And there were Seven Lamps burning before the Throne which are the Seven Spirits of God It was the custome of old to divide the Time by L●●ps as by Houre-Glasses So it is reported of a King of England that he Divided his Naturall Day into Three Parts allowing for each Eight Houres one Part for Nature a Second for Devotion a Third for Civill Affaires And he divided hi● Time by a Light burning in his Chappell as I remember After the like manner these Lamps are Seven Spirits which rule and measure out the Ages of the World See more of this Divine Presence cap. 5. Vers 11. And I beheld and heard the Voyce of many Angels round about the Throne and the Beasts and the Elders and the Number of them was ten Thousand times ten Thousand and Thousands of Thousands All the Infinitenesse of Invisible Beings both Angels and Spirits under their severall Heads the Beasts or Living creatures or Springs of Created Life being Heads to the One the Elders being Heads to the Other These Two Troops with their severall Characters or Numbers of Ten Thousands and Thousands wait as a Guard about this Divine Pavilion This Secret is made up of a Fourfould Glory 1. The Spirituall Appearance of God in Christ The Glorified Humanity of Christ is the Throne The Godhead is the Person on the Throne The Spirituall Man of a Saint is the Heaven in which this Throne is set up This is the Secret of God the Divine Presence with the Person of a Good man 2. The Spring of the Creation issuing for●h from this Secret It is said Genes 2. 10. A River went out from Eden to water the Garden and from thence divided it selfe into Foure Heads The Divine Presence is the true Eden the Secret of Spirituall Pleasures From this the Spirit as a River goes forth to water the Spirituall Man of a Christian and from thence it divides it selfe into those Foure Heads the Foure Life-Springs to the whole Creation All the Beings and Changes of the Creature have their Fountain and Fa●e in the Secret of the Divine Presence 3. The whole Host of Innumerable Angels and Spirits goe along with this Presence of the Lord They are the Royall Guard pitcht round about the Pavilion of the Almighty 4. All the Creatures all these Angels and Spirits in this Secret make up One Diuine Presence one Divine