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A93881	The true way of uniting the people of God in these nations· Opened in a sermon preached in the chappel at White-Hall, Jan. 1. 1659. By Peter Sterry.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing S5486A; ESTC R213121	18,882	37

Reflection our Love to God the same divine Love returning back again to its Original and carrying our Hearts along with it as the Beam or heat of the Sun reflected and cast back from the Wall towards the Sun again Thirdly There is Love in the Rebound in the Out-spreadings and Over-flowings of it upon al the Saints first upon al Mankind and upon al the Creatures according to its due proportions A Saint dwels in this Love as an Island in a Sea He sees all things coming to him as Merchandise conveyed to him over this Sea of Love All his way of commerce with all is by this Sea of Love Nay more a Beleever dwels in the Fountain of this Love in the Heart of God and this is his own Fountain from whence his streams of Love go abroad into the Streets Now he that thus dwelleth in Love as St. John saith dwelleth in God What Life what Blessings doth he enjoy who hath God for his dwelling place Where the Holy man saith in the Psalms That He had fainted if He had not hoped to have seen the Goodness of God in the Land of the Living some Divines both Jewish and Christian understand there God to be that Land of the Living There is a Scripture not unsuitable to this Exposition Esa 61.11 As the Earth bringeth forth her bud and as the Garden causeth the things that are sowen in it to spring forth so the Lord God wil cause Righteousness and Praise to spring up before all the Nations Hear this al you that have chosen Christ you that groan under the burden of Sin you that are hitherto in your Sins God invites you all to the Riches of his free Grace He cals aloud to you allures compels you to turn to the Habitation of his free Grace to dwel in Love that Love which makes him All Love to you which will make you All Love to Him and to every thing that bears any Image or Mark of Him Now consider the Encouragement Say not I am unworthy of this Love I am uncapable of it I shal be unfruitful uncomfortable under it For if once thou comest to dwel in this Love thou dwellest in God who is that Earth that Garden which hath the Seeds of al Righteousness Truth Holiness Consolation Joy Glory sowen in himself and will make them to bud and spring forth in thee before thine own Eyes and before all the Nations What Establishment of all Blessings hath he who dwelling in Love dwels in God He hath a City which hath a Foundation even the Rock of Ages for a Foundation to it Thus much for the Proof and Opening of the Point VSE 1. The first Vse which I intend of this point is for Conviction If the Lord have there ordained Blessings and Establishment of Blessings where the People of God dwel together in Vnity let then the People of God in the midst of us be convinced of the Evill of their Divisions so as to mourn over them to repent of them and to endeavor every one in his own heart place an amendment Esa 7.9 God tels the Jews If ye wil not beleeve surely ye shal not be established You may as wel read it according to the Hebrew It is because ye shal not be established This was spoken to Judah when Syria and Ephraim had taken evill Counsel against it saying Let us go up and vex it and make a breach in it v. 6. The same God now cries aloud in the midst of us that If we wil not beleeve and love one another surely we shall not be established If all intreaty perswasions commands chastenings sufferings wil not bring us to love one another surely it is because it is in the Design and Counsel of the Lord that we shal not be established I shal divide this Vse into Two Heads First I shal shew you Why we should mourn over our Divisions Secondly I shal set before you What those things are in our Divisions over which we are to mourn The first Head First I shal shew you several Reasons Why we should repent of our want of Vnity and our manifold great breaches of Charity Reason 1. It was the Dying Charge of our Lord Jesus that we love one another In these dying Discourses which our Lord Jesus had with his Disciples upon the administring of his Body and Blood to them in the Sacrament immediately before his Sufferings he giveth them this Command with a peculiar and strong impression upon it John 13.34 A new Commandement I give unto you that ye love one another then he doubles the Command with a Reason and a Rule annexed to it as I have loved you that ye also love one another You have it again urged in such a manner as if this were the only Command which their Savior left with them as if this Command were peculiarly his own coming from his Heart as having its Root there and having his Heart in it as Living and joying after an especial manner in it Joh. 15.12 This is my Commandment in the same sence in which before he had said A new Commandment that ye love one another as I have loved you Greater love than this hath no man that a man lay down his life for his Friend How strongly doth our Saviour press this Command of love How high doth he wind it up Yet a fourth time we have it so brought in as if al the Discourses of Christ his Truths and his Commands were aimed at this as the End of all and wrapt up in this as the Perfection of all John 15.17 These things I command ye that ye love one another St. Paul tels us in his Epistle to the Hebrews if it be his that a mans Testament no man disanuls and he signifies the reason in saying that every Testament is confirmed by the Death of the Testator This is the Testament and last Will of our Lord Jesus confirmed and sealed to us by his most precious Blood and Death that we love one another What griefe what a shame ought it to be to us that while we hate one another in our Hearts revile one another with our Tongues with our Hands are active with our Feet are swift Oh the horror of it to shed the Blood one of another we do with those Hearts Tongues Hands Feet which have their Life by the Death of Christ disanul and make void that Death of his go diriectly contrary to the end of it offer despight to trample upon his Heart-blood as a common thing as weak and worthless Reason 2. The Lord himself makes this a Mark and Character of his Disciples that they love one another John 13.35 By this shal all men know that ye are my Disciples if ye love one another Have we the Mark of Christ and of the Lamb which is Love or rather the Mark of the Beast and of Antichrist upon our Hearts Foreheads and Hands by our Babel-Confusions Divisions and Enmities Are we the Brood

greatest Abomination to him He that sows Discord among Brethren Prov. 6.15 This is a Scarlet and Crimson sin indeed What can make it white This covers the Soul all over with Spots of Blood Blood drop'd from the Hearts of thousands of men of many Excellent and precious Persons one of whom was worth ten thousand as was said of David What shall wash out these spots It is only the Blood of God which can wash out these bloody spots and make these Crimson sins white So far as any of us find any of this guilt upon himself let him take up this Lamentation and say I am guilty of the Blood of all these and I whether shal I cause my guilt to go where shall I make my shame to hide it self Go thy waies to the Cross of Christ Let thy Spirituall mournings formed in thee by a Spirit of Faith be as Nails to fasten thee and thy Shame to the Cross with the dead body of the Lord Jesus Go thy waies to the Grave of thy Savior to his Blood to his Spirit Bury thy self and thy guilt together with Christ in his Grave wash in the Laver of his Blood cast thy self into the Fountain of his Spirit So come forth a New man without Spot through the Resurrection of the Lord from the Dead Now contribute to the asswaging of these flames by Rivers of living waters flowing forth from the Fountains of the Holy Ghost opened within thee When Peter had denied Christ with Oaths and Curses Jesus looked upon him and he went out and wept bitterly When Jesus was risen from the Dead his chief care was of Peter At his first appearance Go saith he tel my Disciples and Peter Let our Lord Jesus look forth with a ful Eye of free Grace upon us So shall he open and awaken a Spiritual Eye in us to see how we have with Cursings denied and divided one from another that is from Him in each other Then shal we go into our several retirements and weep over our Breaches Then shal we come forth and in our Exaltations have the most earning bowels towards our most delinquent and dejected Brethren that when we are raised we may raise them also Thus much for the first Vse of Conviction VSE 2. Exhortation Let us study and endeavor the uniting of the People of God The Glory of Christ consists in this that He is a Mediator and a Reconciler His Father loves him for this that he delights to lay down his life to this end to break down the Partition-wal to blot out the Hand-writing of Ordinances to reconcile God to men Men to Men. Let us in this be followers of the Lord Jesus in making it our Joy Glory in thinking it worth the parting with our dearest Enjoyments Estates and Lives to break down the Partition-walls between the Saints and recoucile them one to another We read in the Prophet Esay of those who are called The makers up of Breaches the Builders up of the wast places of old What wast places what Desolations have there been of many yeers in Church and State which have all arisen from our Breaches When a Generation of men shall arise who shal make it their work to be The Makers up of Breaches these alone wil prove the Builders up of the wast places of old I shal humbly offer to the Daughter of my people three Waies of making up our Breaches and of uniting us The first Way Exalt Jesus Christ as the Head of the Vnion Cant. 6. The Church of Christ is twice said to be Terrible as an Army with Banners verse 4. and ver 10. When Beleevers are united in one Compact and Harmonious Body as an Army they are a strength to themselves and a Terror to all their Enemies Invisible or visible But then they must have Banners unto which they must be gathered and under which they may be united What are these Banners The Name of God that is the Manifestation of God in the face of Christ Psal 20.5 Christ himself figured out Psal 60.4 The Love of Christ Cant. 2.4 These are the Banners under which the Saints are formed into one Body as an Heavenly Host But who shall be the Standard-bearer to display these Banners to lift them up and to hold them forth Canticles 5.10 Jesus Christ is said to be the Chiefest among ten thousand You may in the margent of your Bibles see that it is read according to the Hebrew the Standard bearer among ten thousand The Love of Christ the Truths of Christ the Manifestations of God in Christ the Person of Christ as they are displayed and held forth to us by the Immediate Presence and Appearance of the Lord Jesus in the Spirit these are our Banners and this is the Standard-bearer among the Thousands and ten Thousands of the Saints This is the Head of the Vnion For this you have the Decree of God expresly set down by the Spirit of Prophesie in good old Jacob Gen. 49.10 To him shal the Gathering of the People be that is to Jesus Christ Through the Changes of these times how many Banners have been set up On how many Standard-bearers have we cast our Eyes several Principles and Persons several Opinions in Religion or waies in Worship divers Forms of Governments divers Parties hoping that to these the People would be gathered together But instead of Vnity and Beauty there hath been Burning and a Breach From whence hath this been Hath it not been from hence that this is the Ordinance of God this is the Eternal Decree concerning our Lord Jesus that to Him the Gathering of the People shall be I have known a man who through these Revolutions and houres of Temptation when he hath thought to be clean his own Cloaths have defiled him when he hath wash't himself in the Blood of Christ he hath been again rouled in the miry Pit as Job speaks This man in the nights of his Guilt Shame or Sufferings hath had this Voyce come to the Ears of his Spirit once yea twice he heard it Seek not thine own Things but the Things of Jesus Christ When thine heart is turned entirely to the Lord Jesus the Vail the Darkening Disguising and Dividing Vail shal be taken off This Voyce came to him nor for his sake alone but for yours also and all the Saints John 11.25 Jesus saith to Martha I am the Resurrection and the Life You the Honorable Members of this present High Court of Parliament you also have received Rebukes from the Lord whatever the Counsels of Men have been concerning you A Resurrection is agreed by Philosophers Divines to be a Supernatural Effect the work of an Almighty hand the undeniable Argument of a God Twice have you been scatterred as Dust by the Wind Twice have you been as the Dead Men lying in our Streets Twice hath the Lord by a mighty Voyce which hath rent the Rocks said to you Return again Twice have you been gathered together like scattered