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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

in the Salutation is Prayer This hath a Three-fold Description of our Saviours Divine Person 1. A Distinction of Times in the Person of Christ 2. A Distinction of Things 3. An Union of Times and Things in Him A distinction of Times in Christ This you may reade in the 4. verse From Him Which Is Which Was and Which is to Come The whole Frame of Things is built with a Three-fold Partition like the Temple which makes a Three-fold Kingdome 1. That of Nature 2. That of the Mediatour 3. That of the Father These Three Kingdomes have their Full Revolutions and Severall Periods in that One Majestick Person of our Saviour 1. The Kingdome of Nature lyes in the Glory of Christs Person as Past The first Creation was a kind of Incarnation for in that the Image of God was made Flesh Jesus Christ was the Seed of the world God calls him The Seed of the Woman Gen. 3.15 He is the Seed in the Woman which Sends Her forth and Growes up out of Her The Woman and the World are to Jesus Christ as the Corne to the Blade Eare and Huske You reade Rev. 1.15 The Feet of Christ were like unto Fine Brasse as if they were Burning in a Fornace The Formes of Nature are the Feet of the Lord Jesus These are in the Divine Brightnesse of his Immortall Person as in a Flame Consumed in the Heat of a Greater Glory yet stil Conspicuous and Transparent through the Light of it Therefore in this Kingdome our Lord raignes with this Title He That Was. 2. The Kingdome of the Mediatour This is the Vnion or Marriage of the Two other Kingdoms of Nature and the Father Time and Eternity This is as a Flourishing Picture which consists of Light and Shadow making of Both One Beauty God is the Light the Creature the Shadow which here are interwoven and shine mutually The Creature By God God In the Creature so Both make but One Appearance One Kingdome This is the Middle-state of things Thorow this God first Descends into Nature Thorow this All Things Ascend and return again out of Nature unto God Therefore this is cal'd Regnum Mediatorium This is properly the Kingdome of Christ as he is the Mediator In this our Lord Jesus is according to his Proper State and Person known by This name He That Is. 3. The Kingdome of the Father Here the God-head reignes in the Fulnesse of an Unmixt the Freedome of an Unlimited Glory The Kingdome of Christ is ever in Motion till at last it roul it selfe into this sea where it Perfectly loseth and yet more Perfectly then ever keeps its own Distinct State This is the First Description A Distinction of Things in the Person of Christ And from the seven Spirits which are before His Throne ver. 4. If these Spirits were Angels they would in this place justifie and reward the Papists in their prayers to those Flaming Ministers God is a Spirit but He is One These then are some Middle-thing not by Negation that cannot be but by Participation Seven is the Perfect number of the Creature comprehending its Labour and its Rest its Six Dayes and its Sabbath Seven times Seven is the Great Jubile the Joy of All Things in which they are Free and Return to their First State God then As He varies himselfe into all the Distinct Formes of the Creature as he carries them on thorow their Severall Changes till he carry them up to His own Vnchangeable Rest So He is a Seven-fold Spirit And this is the Spirituall Person of our Lord Jesus Pan's Pipe composed of seven reeds Seven being known by learned men for the Marriage-number Revel. 5.6 A Lamb stands with seven hornes and seven eyes which are The Seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth This is that Great Spirit our Lord Jesus who in the form of a Seven-fold Spirit like a River with seven heads le ts forth the God-head and the Creation one into another The Union of all Times and Things in One Person This is the first part of the fifth verse This Vnion is set forth by a Three-fold Expression 1. The Appearance of all things in Christ 2. The Presence of Christ in all 3. The Power of Christ over all 1. The Appearance of all things in Christ Iesus Christ the faithfull witnesse Our Lord Jesus in glory is become the Image and the Light The Image in which Each Thing is seen The Light by which that Image appears So He is both the Testimony and the Witnesse He is the Faithfull witnesse For He is the Truth of all things Every thing is seen in Him according to its most Right most Proper and Solidest Appearance 2. The Presence of Christ in all The first-born from the dead v. 5. c. 1. Our Lord Jesus was in Nature so He became capable of dying He sinks himselfe out of Nature into The Darknesse which is a Shadow flying round about this Creation so He dyes Thorow this Darknesse he shoots forth himselfe into the Light of God which encompasseth all So He is risen from the dead By His Presence in Nature all things put forth themselves there For all subsist in him Colos. 1.17 By His Death all things die His Death being the Vniversal one including and bringing forth all Particular deaths For the world is crucified by the Crosse of Christ By His Resurrection all things are raised into the Life of God as the Soul raiseth all the parts of the Body making to it selfe so many severall Resurrections in them Thus is Christ the First-born from the Dead This is He Present in All Things Passing thorow All States 3. Power over all The Prince of the Kings of the earth c. 1. v. 5. All Principalities and Powers visible or invisible are streames in which Jesus Christ flowes forth from God pouring forth himselfe at last into God againe So have we gone thorow the Prayer in the Salutation as it containes a Three-fold Description of our Saviours High and Heavenly Person 2. Praise This second part of the Salutation which raiseth it selfe by a quick sweetnesse of change unto Praise is comprehended in the latter part of the fifth verse and the sixth The Praises sing forth the Person of Christ in a Two-fold Description First Love Secondly Lustre 1. Love This Love of our Sweet Saviour hath a double Preciousnesse in it 1. The Affection To him that hath loved v. 5. 2. The Effect This is Three-fold 1. Our Justification And hath wash't us in his blood 2. Sanctification Hath made us Priests to God his Father 3. Glorification Hath made us Kings 2. Lustre To him be Glory and Dominion for ever and ever Glory is the Reflexion of Beauty from every Appearance Dominion is the Power or Fulnesse that comprehends and sends forth each Appearance This is the Lustre of our Saviours Divine Person 'T is set with the Roots and Rags of all Being It hath in it selfe the Power that puts forth

Satisfaction and Certainty Here the Divine Eye is the Faculty the Supreame Image is the Object the Vnion is the Spirit of Unity Each Image each Eye each Sight is not so much as a Dream Shadow Glance to This where the Eye of Heaven and the Beauty of Heaven possesse each other in One Spirit 2. The Outward Eye shall see Christ Now the Inward Powers of the Soul are unrighteously detain'd as by an Imprisonment or Buriall in the Exterior Senses But when Christ comes the Outward Man with His Faculties and Senses shall be taken in by the Intellectuall and Spirituall Man as the Tabernacle was into the Temple So Both shall see the same Glory by the same Light Saint Paul tels us 1 Thes. 4.16 The Lord Himself shall descend with a Shout with the voyce of an Arch-Angel with the Trump of God The Lord Jesus shall fill the Angels with the Discoveries of the God-head as Trumpets with a Loud Blast or Triumphant Flourish Thorow them this Double noise the Shout of Divine Appearances the Voice of Angelicall Gloryes shall come rushing like a Mighty Wind upon the Dead Saints and awaken their Bodyes into the same Harmony as they had done before their souls So Both shall be a Treasure of Divinity in an Angels vessell To this agrees that of Jesus Christ Mark 12.25 They shall be as the Angels in Heaven Speaking of the Resurrection which is the Comming of Christ to the Body Then shall our Bodyes be in our Soules as a Lesse Angel in a Greater Christ as He comes transfigures Both into Angelicall shapes so pours forth Himselfe into Both and Both enjoy the Clearnesse of His Appearance 4. Head The Sweetnesse that flowes from Christs Appearance And all the Tribes of the Earth shall mourn over Him Sweet Teares upon a Sweet Subject Christ when he shines out pierceth the Hearts of Men with the Golden-headed Arrow of Love and Loving Griefe by a Four-fold Discovery 1st Of the Eternall Relation between Christ and the Soul Christ comes and All the Saints with Thee Hos. 4.5 When Thou appearest then thou Discoverest All His Saints in Thine Hand in thine Heart Deut. 33.3 Thou shewest thy selfe O King of Saints as the Everlasting Father the Father which hath sent forth All Generations from the mid'st of his own Tender Bowels This is the First Discovery 2. Of the Eternall Affection in Christ to the Soul Divines say that the wounds shall appeare in the Glorified Body of Christ when He Appeares 'T is true that he opens His Bosome and shewes those Wounds of Love which he had there from Eternity and those Wounds too which He received on the Crosse as they are Glorifyed in His Eternall Love 3. Of the Emptynesse and Eternall losse of those Things for which we undervalued our Saviour 4. Of the excesse and Eternity of Glory which we shall see comming forth upon us in the Person of Christ As at the Discovery of Ioseph He and his Brethren fell upon the Neck of each other and wept So will this Discovery in the Appearances of Christ bring a sweet Confusion upon the Spirits of Men Then shall a Man fall at the feet of His Saviour and weeping say O my Iesus Thou art my Father Brother Husband Selfe While there were other Things I loved other Things more than Thee Now they are Everlastingly gone and have left me alone Yet now thou ownest me See as thou breakest forth thou drownest my sins and me in a Flood of Glory in thy Selfe O my Iesus Thou breakest my Heart I have now pass'd thorow the Doctrinall Part of the Point distinguish'd into Foure Heads The Application 1. For Humiliation I shall first present you with a Preparative to the Vse and then put into your Hands the Use it selfe 1. The Preparative Worthy Patriots I shall humbly undertake to be a Remembrancer to your Piety and Prudence in a Two-fold Consideration for a Preparative The First Consideration is this 'T is now many years since our Fasts and our Fights have been mutually interwoven Yet what Profit have we of the One what Peace from the Other what end of either Still we fast still we fight if not in Camps yet more dangerously in Counsailes Our ship is fil'd with waves more still pressing in ready to sink it So that we may cry O God! carest thou not that we perish in the mid'st of all our Prayres Praises Fasts and Holy Feasts Now you are met againe to fast and pray Now put on your Tenderest Bowels of pity and affection So look upon this poore Kingdome which hath wrapt up in it your Countreymen your Kinred all your Dearest and sweetest Relations Nay that which to you sure should be more than all These the Glory of your God See it trembling and hovering between A Heaven of Reformation all good Angels and Men striving to raise it up thither and A Hell of Ruine the weight of all Devils and bad Men hanging upon it to sinke it downe thither Let this sight melt you Let it move you to call up all your strength this once to cry mightily to God Who Knows what this One Day may do to Crosse the feares to Crown the hopes and toyle of many yeares if it please the Eternall Spirit to blow right and strong upon your Spirits this One Day Six dayes the Army of Israel compassed Iericho yet still It stood On the seventh Day they compassed it seven Times at the seventh Time the Priests blew with the Trumpets and the people gave a Mighty shout and the walls of Iericho fell downe flat to the Ground This is the First Consideration The second Consideration is this No teares prevaile with God but such as are wept over Jesus Christ All the Tribes of the Earth shall mourn over Him If Jesus Christ be not the Flame in our Breast that melts our Hearts if He be not the Object that draws forth our Teares though we weep Blood our Blood will be but as Water spilt upon the Ground If we grieve and not in Christ our Griefe is Hypocrisie or at best but Formality If we grieve and not for Christ our Griefe is Idolatry What makes the Discourses of men mutually understood and moving 'T is the union of Men in One Vniversall Spirit of Reason What makes Colours Sounds understood and moving in the Eye or Eare 'T is the union of Sense and Sensible Things in One Common Spirit or Principle of Sense If you will touch the Heart of God with your Prayers and Sorrowes it must be by a union between Him and you in One Vniversall Common Person the Lord Jesus God-Man Iacob obtained not the Blessing by Prayers and Tears alone But as He prayed and wept He held fast in His Armes the Angel of the Covenant Then shall the Day break upon us and we become as Princes with God when we pray and with our Jesus in our Armes when we weepe upon the Bosome of our Jesus If then you have any