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A61470	The clouds in which Christ comes opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament, upon the solemne day of their monthly fast, Octob. 27, 1647 / by Peter Sterry ...	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1648 (1648)	Wing S5475; ESTC R16803	32,320	66

any Appearance the Appearance that is put forth by any Power thorow the whole extent of things from one end of them to the other for ever and ever Saint Iohn from these Praises passeth as by a divine Rapture of delight and wonder into the First Preface v. 7. Behold He comes c. Let All eyes here look up and gaze He comes He who is who was who is to come He the Living Creature and the Wheel of the whole Creation of God He comes with Clouds He comes cloth'd with so full appearance of Majesty and Sweetnesse as shall melt all hearts make all eyes weep teares of Griefe and Ioy Grief that they have seen Him no sooner Ioy that they see him now and seeing him see all their Griefs and Feares eternally vanish't all their desires and joyes accomplish't all their Sinnes against so much Sweetnesse perfectly forgiven Thus we are arrived at my Text TEXT THe Text is a Prophesie of that Divine Trinity Light Love and Ioy which shall Vnitedly Vniversally reign in all hearts and eyes at the Second Appearance of this Royall Spouse of Spirits You will see this Text though it speak of Wounds Mourning Teares to have a sweet not sad sence in all these if we compare it with that place of the Prophet from whence these words seem in great part to be borrowed Zach. 12.10 I will pour forth a Spirit of Grace and supplications c. The Text hath Four Parts 1. A Shout 2. A Show 3. Spectators 4. Their Passions 1. The Shout Behold This is as a Blast of a Trumpet giving a loud and chearfull warning of some Glorious Show already begun 't is an Excitation with a signification of some Eminent and Present thing 2. The Show He Comes with Clouds He comes This word in Greek signifies a Present and Continued act then begun from that time extending it selfe to our dayes to the end of Time He is Comming He comes with Clouds I shall leave these Clouds upon my Text untill I come to my Doctrine then I shall open them 3. The Spectators The whole world is the Theater or Stage on which this Show is presented All orders of Spirits are the Spectators Every eye shall see him They also that have Pierced him This clause hath a peculiar relation to the Jewes 'T is also a Hint of that Depth in which Divine Love hath laid it's Designe to spring the Highest Sweetnesse upon the most Horrid Sinners 'T is a melting Touch like that Go tell his Disciples and Peter that he is risen Mark 16.7 Or like that Hee appeared first to Mary Magdelen out of whom he had cast seven Devils Mark 16.9 4. Passion And they shall mourn over Him The Sight pierceth the Hearts of the Spectators As Two Principles Water and Blood ran mixt from the side of Christ so Three sorts of Teares flow mingled down the cheeks of the Beholders here Teares of Remorse Love and Ioy Teares of Remorse for having hated Love stain'd Glory murthered Life it selfe upon a Mistake And all this Their Own Love Glory Life Teares of Love towards Beauty and Sweetnesse an Universal Beauty an Vnlimited Sweetnesse united in one Iesus like Light and Heat in one Beame and breaking forth from His Face to make a True Day Teares of Ioy for that Blessednesse which appeares extending it selfe securely to Eternity in the Incomprehensible Majesty of our Saviour's Person which hath Immortality which comprehends Eternity in it selfe in which the Quickest Sight is lost in an Vnfathom'd Light Doctrine THe words of my Text being thus opened doe again wrap up their full sense in this Doctrine The Eminent Thing of the World is The Comming of our Lord Iesus into the world This Doctrine empties it Selfe by these Four Heades 1. The Comming of Christ 2. The Clouds in which He Comes 3. The Clearnesse of His Appearance when He is come 4. The Sweetnesse Flowing from His Presence 1. Head The Comming of Christ This is Two-fold The 1st The 2d Comming 1. The First Comming of our Lord Jesus is Carnall This was then when he took Flesh of the Virgin Mary Now He was made Inferiour to Angels Hebr. 2.9 Now he was made Flesh Iohn 1.14 Now he was laid so low as to be capable of all the Temp●●tions the most bitter the most balefull that can come from Devils or fall on Man yet without sinne Hebr. 4.14 This First Comming was our Saviour's Humiliation to Frailty Guilt Shame Horrour Death The Mystery now was The Highest God making Himselfe the Lowest of Things Flesh Dust The Deepest Darknesse Thus the First was the Last 2. The Second Comming of our Saviour is Spirituall It is Spirituall in Two Respects 1. His Person 2. His Appearance 1. Person The Person of our Blessed Saviour in his Second Comming is altogether Spirituall and Divine Such as the Person of our Jesus was at His Ascension such is it in His Second Approach to Men What is that Person in which our Saviour sits at the Top of His Ascent You shall read Eph. 4.10 He that Descended is the same that Ascended farre above All Heavens This Ascent doth not so much import a Change of Place as of Person and Proportion When the Lord Jesus was gone up above these Heavens which we see then He was above all Change of Place The Heavens which we do not see the Invisible Part of this Creation is fetter'd with the Chaine of Time but not imprison'd too by a Confinement or Circumscription of Place Our Lord ascended not so much by a Locall Motion as a Spirituall Mutation and Exaltation of His Person As Earth heightned unto a Flame changeth not its Place onely but Forme and Figure So the Person of our Saviour was raised to a Greatnesse a Glory vastly differing from and surmounting Any Image All Images of Things visible or invisible in this Creation So 't is fitly exprest Hebr. 7.29 He was made Higher than the Heavens He was Heigthned to a Splendour Enlarged to a Capacity and Compasse above the Brightest beyond the Widest Heavens Thus we see Negatively what the State of our Saviour's Person was when He was once Ascended It was no more Like to any thing in Earth below or Heaven above It was Remote from All Created Formes of Things Transcending All Farre above All Heavens Our Saviour Himself wil teach us what the Positive State of His Person now was by his Prayer for it Iohn 17.5 And now O Father glorifie me with Thy Selfe with that Glory which I had with Thee before the World was Our Lord prayes and His Prayer is both a Prophesie and the Performance begun that His Divine Nature may be both the Center and Circle to His Humanity inwardly enlivening outwardly clothing and fashioning it that his Man-hood may be after his Death at His Ascension in that same Image and Appearance in which the God-head was to it selfe before any thing else was Saint Paul points out to us that as Perfect which

THE CLOUDS IN WHICH CHRIST Comes OPENED In a SERMON before the Honourable House of COMMONS assembled in Parliament upon the Solemne Day of their Monthly Fast Octob. 27. 1647. By PETER STERRY Sometimes Fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge AND Now Preacher of the Gospel in LONDON Published by Order of that House LONDON Printed for R. Dawlman and are to be sold at the signe of the Crowne and Bible at Dowgate neere Canning street 1648. Die Mercurii 27 Octob. 1647. ORdered by the Commons Assembled in Parliament That M. Lisle do from this House give thankes to M. Sterry for the great paines he took in his Sermon Preached this day at Margarets Westminster before the House of Commons and that he desire him to Print his Sermon wherein he is to have the like priviledge in printing of it as others in the like kinde usually have had H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. I appoint Robert Dawlman to Print this Sermon and no man else PETER STERRY TO THE HONORABLE HOUSE OF COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Noble Senatours NOt like Araunah in the Holy Story as a King in Spirituall Things but like the Widow in the Gospell Poore in the Riches of Christ and too much a Widow by the absence of her Heavenly Spouse my Soule hath offered from her Penury to your Treasury Yet as a Steward have I endeavoured to be Faithfull bringing forth the Best of my Spirit for Service and Food to your Spirits as the Priests of old gave the Fat of the Sacrifices to the Flame on the Altar As the Royall Preacher sought out Choice Words so have I sought for the most Pleasant most Profitable most Powerfull Discoveries of God in my Scanty Store in the midst of that Thick Ignorance which covers my Poore Heart Now I have laid them at your Feet where they lye as Scattered and Dry Bones except the Spirit of our Lord Iesus breath upon them bring them together infuse a Warmth Power and Beauty into them to make them Living Company for you Not able to bring Stately and Costly Beasts to the Sanctuary I have made it my Desire and Designe to present for an Offering before God and You a Payre of Turtle Doves Simplicity and Sweetnesse or an Innocent Integrity with an Humble Meekenesse I hope both are if not without blemish because they have alighted on my Heart yet of the right-breed of that Dove which descended from Heaven and alighted on the Head of our Lord Iesus And now what is my Expectation For my owne Soule for my Brethren in the Flesh all the Children of Seth for the rest of my Fellow Creatures which groane continually in my Eares Is not my desire and Sighing before thee O my God Even This The Descent of the Dove upon them the Manifestation of the Spirit in them the True Iubile the Divine Liberty of the whole Creation All within me testifies of this Spirit to me All without me proclaimes this Spirit before Me as the Spring of my Ioyes the End of my Faith the Glorification of my Person and not of mine onely but of all those who are rooted in this Principle of Life what ever the Soile of Education Profession or Custome be in which they are Planted whatever the Barke of Opinion or Affection be in which for the present they are Inclosed The most Known Men for Wisedome in all Languages Learnings Religions Ages Regions have worship't have waited for This Eternall Spirit The Vnderstanding of the World riding forth in a Chariot of Light upon the Face of all Formes of Things The Good Converting All Things into it selfe The Vnity or some-thing above an Vnity To {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The Supreame Band of Vnity and Multiplicity This Spirit brought forth from it selfe the Creation and still sits upon it hatching it till it breake the Shell of This Darke Flesh and spring forth into its owne Life and Image The Lord Iesus is this Spirit who is before Abraham was by whom the Worlds were Made who is a Spirit Comprehending Cherishing Enclosing Comming forth into all the Fleshly Births of Time This Iesus came Himselfe in the Last of Times into Flesh was by His Crosse drawn up out of it into Spirit and now by the same way is drawing up all Things after Him into the same Spirit That your selves and these Kingdomes may Feele Obey Enjoy the Drawings of this Iesus the Descents of his Spirit is the Affectionate Prayer of him who is Your Honours lowest Servant in Christ PETER STERRY Reader thou art intreated before thou Reade to mend with thy Pen these Greater faults escaped in Printing Pag. 3. lin. 15. read the blade eare and huske to the Corne p. 7. l. 22. r. Rayes p. 18. l. 7. r. slides l. 21. r. Ayre p. 21. l. 30. r. Sea of this Creation to seeth p. 23. l. 3. r. were for the most part by flames p. 29. l. 26. r. Day p. 39. l. 18. r. in the Course p. 54. l. 4. r. Things When A SERMON Preached at a late Fast before the Honourable House of COMMONS REVEL. 1.7 Behold he commeth with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him and all kindreds of the earth shall waile because of him THE CONTEXT I Shall make my way through the Context to my Text so shall we fall more Clearly and Kindly into it Saint Iohn in this Book makes from His Time a Discovery of Those Things which Are and Are to Be till the World should Be no more So the Greek addes to the second verse this Clause Both Those things that Are and Those things which are Ordained to Be after Them The Manner and Matter of this Discovery are Both exprest in the Title and First words of this Book The Revelation of Iesus Christ Divines tell us There are Two Glasses in which All Things are seen that are seen by a Prophetick Light or a Light of Glory The Person of our Lord Iesus and The Trinity The Scene of this whole Discourse or Discovery called The Revelation from one end of the Book to the other lyes in the Person of our Blessed Saviour This Divine Discourse is cast into the forme of an Epistle convey'd by the Tongue of an Angel the Hand of an Evangelist to the Seven Churches in Asia This Epistle hath Foure Parts 1. A Salutation 2 A two-fold Preface 3. A Narration 4. A Conclusion The Salutation begins with the fourth verse and ends where my Text begins It consists of Prayers and Praises Both Parts Prayer and Praise have for their Design a Description of that Person which is the Ground and Argument of all that Prophetick story which the Epistle represents From and In Heaven This Person is our Iesus not according to that Fleshly Shape in which He walkt among men below but according to that Spirituall Forme that Divine Figure in which He sits with God and shines forth on Angels above 1. Prayer The First Part