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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

quick when their wrath was kindled over us 3. Note Wind up and wrap up all your Mercies into the Person of Jesus Christ In him they are all Yea and Amen ● Cor. 1. 20. He is the Eternall One by whom and in whom our Blessings are made Eternall Mercies are Sweet when they are the Sure Mercies of Jesus Christ When our Salvations and our Joyes savour of the Lord Jesus they become the sweet Savour of an Everlasting Memorial upon our owne Spirits in the Nostrils of God the Father Without Him they vanish at the presence of every new Tryall as the Morning dew before the rising Sunne 4. Note Offer up all your Thanks to God by Jesus Christ Hee is the Chiefe Musician He alone can tune your songs and set them in order before the Lord to make them Spirituall Musicke Our blessed Saviour is the Altar that must sanctifie the Gold of our praises Thus begin and end your Praises with the Lord Jesus Make him the First and the Last Dish in your Feasts the Seasoning of all your Dishes Engrave upon your Hearts in all your Mirth set at the Head of all your Songs this Inscription or Title To the Chiefe Musician in Heavenly things To him that excelleth To Iesus Christ I have done with the First Particular in the Title of the Psalme the Dedication 2. Particular The Author He is described Two wayes 1. By his Name or Person David 2. By his Relation the Servant of the Lord 1. By his Name or Person David David was the Type of a Just Power in Foure Respects 1. David was sought of God to rule his People after his owne Heart 1 Sam. 13 14. Samuel tells Saul God hath sought him a man after his owne Heart and he hath commanded him to be Captaine over his People A Ruler must be sought out by a Divine Spirit Divine Providence or Both He must have a Command either Exprest or Imprest upon his Heart He must command out of Obedience not Ambition 2. David was the Sonne of Ishai 1 Sam. 16. 1. God saith to Samuel I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite I have provided me a King from among his Sons Jesse or Ishai for Both are one signifies Man in his Excellency in the true Being of a Man that is so farre as he hath any Reliques or Prints of that Image of God in which Man was first made 3. David had Iesus Christ for his Lord and Son Matt. 22. 45. Iesus puts this Riddle to the Jewes from the 110th Psalme If David call Him Lord how is He then his Son David had Christ for his Lord He raigned Obedientially as being subject to the Messiah Deuteron 34. 5. It is said of Moses that He died according to the word of the Lord The Hebrew hath it At the Mouth of the Lord The ●ewes say God tooke Moses's Soule from him with a Kisse So David raigned at the Mouth of the Lord Iesus The Kisses of Christ's mouth breath'd a Ruling Power and Skill into him David had Iesus Christ for his Son David was Christ's Predecossour in the same Line and His Type The End of David and his Kingdome was to Figure and to further the Comming of the Lord Iesus 4. David signifies Beloved He was Gods Favourite protected and blessed by Him By the Blessing of the Lord thorough many Dangers in the midst of many Difficulties he was setled in his Kingdome now when he sung this Song of Praise Thus David was the Type of a Iust Power Right Honourable and Noble Patriots You are that Iust Power of which David was a Type if you not Seeking b●●Sought by the Lord to Command rule this People not according to your owne Hearts but His owne Heart You are a Iust Power while you are Sons of Ishai Representatives of the People not after their Lusts and Humours but ●o farre as they retaine the True Being of Men having the Image of God stampt upon them in Righteousnesse and true Reason 〈…〉 are a Iust Power while you have Iesus Christ for your Lord and Sonne while you make the End of your Rule to be the Exaltation and Manifestation of the Lord Iesus to Serve Shadow forth Usher in Iesus Crrist Upon these Grounds you have been Beloved of the Lord eminently Favoured and Blest by Him By the Blessing of the Lord after many Dangers in the midst of many Difficulties you are Setled to a good degree in your Government now when you keep this Day of Praises But there is One thing more Remarkable in David and Applicable to your selves Honoured Senatours which I cannot let passe That is this David stands between Two Contrary Raignes the Raigne of Saul a Prince of Disobedience Witchcrafts Idolatries and the Raigne of Salomon a Prince of Righteousnesse Peace and Glory David was a Man of Blood all his time full of Warres and Troubles He was not suffered to build an House to the Lord because he had shed much Blood upon the face of the Earth before the Lord 1 Chron. 22. 8. Davids Raigne was a Type of the Kingdome of Christ in its Conflict of the Church in her Passage from the Land of Darknesse and Bondage under Anti-Christ to the Land of Rest David raigned fourty yeares from Saul to Salomon according to the yeares in which the Children of Israel were journeying through the Wildernesse according to the Dayes in which Eliah was travelling without foode to the Mount of God when he fled from the face of Iezabel 1 Kings 19. 8. according to the Dayes in which Iesus Christ was encountred and tempted of the Devil in the Wildernesse Right Honourable If we may give credit to Reverend Learned and Holy Men You are now upon the Entrance into those Times You have had the Honour to be made Instruments in the Hand of God to bring about the Beginnings of those Times of the Church to which Davids Kingdome was a Type and no more Iesus Christ is now comming forth with his Garments dyed Red in the Blood of his Enemies The Prophet Isaiah saw these Times when he cryed out Esai 63. v. 1. Who is this that commeth from Edom with Dyed Garments from Bozrah The Iewish Rabbins teach us that Edom in the old Testament points out Rome which is the Seate of the Whore The Prophet goeth on v. 2. Wherefore art thou red in thy Aparrell He answers concerning his Enemies v. 3. at the latter end Their Blood shall be sprinckled upon my Garments and I will staine all my Rayment This is the First Raign of Christ after the similitude of David that is in the Power of his Death This Power of our Saviours Death must have a Double Effect One to cover the Earth with His Slaine the other to crucisie the Earthly Part in his Saints I will here crave leave to insert one place of Scripture which seemes to suite my present Purpose It is Daniel 12. ver. 11. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away