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A61472	England's deliverance from the northern presbytery, compared with its deliverance from the Roman papacy by Peter Sterry, once fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher to the Right Honorable the Councell of State, sitting at White-Hall.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing S5479; ESTC R223757	30,515	46

and all forms as ministring to it In vain is the snare laid before those Doves which have these spirituall eyes and wings In the number of which that you may be ever found is the Prayer of Right Honourable Your Honours most faithfull Servant in CHRIST PETER STERRY ENGLANDS DELIVERANCE FROM THE Northern Presbytery Compared with Its Deliverance from the Roman Papacy JEREMIAH chap 16. v. 14 15. Therefore behold the dayes come saith the Lord that it shall no more be said The Lord liveth that brought up the Children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt But The Lord liveth that brought up the Children of Israel from the land of the NORTH and from all the Lands whither he had driven them and I will bring them again into the Land that I gave unto their Fathers THe LORD in the Vers●…s before convinceth the Jewes of the evill of their wayes in Doing worse than their Fathers verse 12. He threatneth for this to cast them out of their own Land into a Land which they knew not verse 13. In these Verses which are my Text that ever-gracious GOD who in the midst of Judgment remembreth Mercy and in the midst of Threatnings delights to drop in Promises provideth a Cordiall for his People to carry with them into the Wildernesse and to preserve them from Fainting in their dispersion He assures them that after He hath scattered them He will gather them together and bring them back again Yea to sweeten their Sufferings with the Expectation of a most Glorious Deliverance He lets them know his purpose of making their bringing up out of Egypt which was made so Glorious by many Miracles and Mighty Wonders to have no Glory in respect to this Glory of the Bringing them up out of the NORTH which should so eminently excell Thus you see my Text to be a Promise expressed by way of comparison between the Last calling home of the People of GOD out of the NORTH and their First coming up out of Egypt Drowning the very Memory and mention of this first mercy in the great and wide Sea of that last loving kindnesse I shall not spend that Time which I would be thrifty of in any larger opening or further dividing of the Words but fall presently upon that Doctrine which I have designed from these words for the Ground-work to my present Discourse The Doctrine is this Doct. It is the way of GOD to make his last Mercies to his people better than the first Reas. I shall give you one Argument from the Scriptures to prove it which Argument shall be a Demonstration of this Truth from the proper Reason of it This Argument is made up of three parts which all three laid together make one full proof 1. Part. The great Design of GOD from the beginning hath been and still is to bring forth JESUS CHRIST the second time into the midst of men in that Spiritual and Heavenly Appearance in which He now sitteth at the Right Hand of the Father Our Saviour signifieth to his Disciples this grand Project of the Father Ioh. 6. verse 62. What and if ye shall see the Son of Man ascend up where he was before The Weight of the sense in this Scripture lyes upon those two words See Before It is a frequent thing for that which is First in Being Dignity Design to be Last in Discovery That which GOD hath chiefly in Design all along is the Manifestation of CHRIST to men at last in that Divine state in which He was at the first You have the same thing held forth Ioh. 5. 23. It was said in the verse before that All judgment was committed to the Son The reason of it is given in this verse that all men should Honour the Son as they do the Father Behold the Purpose and counsel of GODS Heart why he doth All that he doth why he puts the great and last judgement into the hands of the Son namely that the Son may appear to All Creatures in One Spiritual Eternal Glory with the Father 2. Part. All the Works of GOD are in order to this Design this Discovery of IESUS CHRIST Coloss. 1. v. 16. All things are said to be Created for Christ In what sense is the whole Creation for Christ Is it to make any Real Addition of Blessednesse or Glory to the Person of Christ This cannot be For the Person of Christ was compleat in Glory before any thing was made that was made Nay when our Lord Iesus took flesh and in our Nature ascended was glorified yet then was there no new Glory put upon Iesus Christ For as the humane nature was assumed into the Personality so was it into the Glory of the Son of GOD It was taken up to subsist in one person and shine in one glory with the Divine Nature But how then was the World made for Christ Our Divines answer it by that Distinction of Glorifying GOD essentially and manifestatively We say that all the Creatures Glorifying of GOD is no more than a Manifestation of the Glory of GOD So GOD in the Creation in the conduct and management of the affairs of the Creature from the Beginning to the End aimes at this mark to manifest Iesus Christ at the end of time in that glorious Appearance with which He was cloathed before all times 3. Part. This designe of GOD is his last end the end of all his works When GOD shall have brought forth th●…s Judgement this Spiritual Discovery of JESUS CHRIST to perfection to a full victory over all fleshly Appearances then will he cease from all his works and enter into this Discovery as his Rest. When man begins his work his End lyes lowest and least appears but as he goes on and approacheth to the Finishing of his work his End riseth up and makes more clear Discoveries of it self So it is with GOD at the beginning of his works this Designe the Discovery of CHRIST is Little lyes low and hid But as GOD goes on to work and drawes to a consummation of all things this Discovery which was at first as a grain of Mustard-seed hidden in the Earth grows up and spreads its self This Manifestation of CHRIST was at the first Creation as a small spring onely but a living one From the Fall to the Giving of the Law th●…s Spring drives along upon the face of the Earth thorow all manner of mixtures a very weak store and strength of Waters From thence it begins to make a channell to it self and to run along in a fair stream At the Incarnation and Ascension of JESUS CHRIST this Stream enlarged it self into a Broad River But our LORD shall come the Second time then shall this River become a great and wide Sea covering the face of the whole Earth Then shall the end be when the first and fleshly discoveries of Christ shall empty themselves into his last and Spirituall Appearance Now if you please to lay together

them as Dust before the wind the Angel of the Lord driving them But these Two times he hath appeared to you as he did to Solomon he hath spoken Peace to you his chosen ones And what hath the LORD spoken to you when he hath spoken Peace even this that his chosen ones return no more to folly that you no more have any thoughts of Going down again into Egypt lest you go a-whoring from the living GOD the Eternall Spirit and forsakethe Guide of this your Youth Right Honourable Balaam was a Prophet he was the man whose eyes were opened who saw the visions of GOD But he prophesied for the hire of a fleshly Interest This Balaam hath assayed from several places to curse the Armies of Israel in the midst of you But no Inchantment hath been against you while you have walked as Iacob a Plain man in the simplicity of the spirit though a supplanter of his brother Edom. There hath been no Divination against you while as Israel Princes with GOD you have wrastled with GOD and so prevailed over your Enemies Right Honourable I do now with bowels tenderly Earning with a heart bleeding over your precious lives and this whole Common-wealth how the Knees of my spirit to the GOD of Israel for you I do earnestly warn and intreat every one of you that as this Balaam hath not been able to hurt you by his open curses so he may not by his close wiles and fair-tongued flatteries draw you to feast on the Moabitish Dainties look on the Moabitish Beauties bow down to the Moabitish Idols of fleshly Excellencies and enjoyments I speak to you as to wise Men Why should you fall for your fornications many thousands of you by the Plague in this wildernesse 3. Question What the Coming up out of the NORTH means Answer You have a full description of this in the Prophesie of Ezekiel As the severall Prophesies in the Revelation have prefixed to them severall Appearances of Iesus Christ as the Mark at which 〈◊〉 Prophesie aimes and as the Scene or Face of things which the predictions in each Prophesie are to usher into the world so Ezekiel in the Beginning of his Book presents us with a vision Dreadfully Glorious in which JESUS CHRIST is discovered as he comes with his people from the NORTH that this vision may be a Light to all the following Prophesies This first Chapter of Ezekiel hath many things to be said of it which are hard to be expressed and much more hard to be understood But I will not trouble you with any of those Mysteries which require senses well exercised on invisible things I shall only set before you severall particulars which offer themselves to every Eye and fall with ease upon every understanding 1. The whole Object which shewes it self to the Prophet is called the Glory of the Lord verse 28. This expression imports as much as the Court of a King where he is in state in Glory The Jewes call this vision the Chariot alluding to that in the Psalmist of GOD riding upon the Cherubim contrary to the figure in the most holy Place where GOD is said to dwell between the Cherubims in respect to the Ark and the Mercy seat which was under the Covering of the Wings of those Angelicall Creatures 2. He who rides in this Chariot is a Man upon a Throne This Man is our LORD JESUS in his Heavenly Man in the Person of a Mediatour The Word Amber is so interpreted by very learned Divines as to represent the Godhead in its Majesty together with the Humanity over-spread by the Bright Beams of the Divine Nature This Man appears also in the full Image of the Ever-Blessed Trinity The fire cloathing him from the Loins upward from the Loins downward shadows out the Father The Image it self the Appearance of a man in the fire represents the Son The Brightnes round about like a Rainbow typifies the Holy Ghost breathed forth from the Father and the Son the Union of both circling them in as in Mutuall Embraces verse 26. and 27. 3. This man hath a firmament under his Feet Behold here the Pavement of the Chariot if I may so speak This firmament is the third heavens where Iesus Christ is where Paradise is whither Saint Paul was rapt These are the Lords own Heavens which the Lord bowes and upon which He descends when he comes down according to the Prophet This is that Pavement which the Elders of Israel saw under the Feet of the God of Israel That was represented by Saphyre so is this here vers. 26. 4. Four living Creatures stand under this firmament and draw this Chariot verse 26. They sparkled like burnisht brasse verse 7. They were as burning coals of fire and as Lamps verse 13. See here the horses in the coach which are the Elect Angels the second heavens the holy Powers and high Principles or Principalities in the secret of the Invisible part of this Creation These have their Proper forms as Angels verse 4. They have all one common form of a Man verse 5. which is the Divine Image of our glorified Saviour in which everyone of them possesseth his own distinct-image to shew them to be the Angels of Iesus Christ Such is the Majesty of God riding upon the Cherubims as his horses who have the heavenly image of their glorious Rider himself as trappings cover them all over 5. The wheels to this Chariot are the visible Part of this Creation as it is restored and made new by Iesus Christ The word translated wheeles signifies very properly globes round globes such as the round world of these Heavens and Earth which our eyes behold 6. One Divine life acts this whole piece of Glory from the Man upon the Firmament to the wheeles which stand by the Living Creatures That fire which is a Robe of Glory upon the Man verse 27. That is the spirit of Life which goes up and down in the midst of the living Creatures verse 13. This Spirit of the Living Creatures is in the wheeles also enlivening and acting them ver. 20. 7. This flaming Chariot comes forth from the midst of a whirl-wind and a great cloud and a fire v. 4. 8. This sweeping Devouring Tempest comes from the NORTH v. 4. These are the Particular Notes upon this chapter which I have collected out of it unto this End to found upon these Notes three Observations 1. Observation When the Lord brings his People out of the NORTH he comes in a tempest of a whirle-wind a Great cloud and of fire He comes to bring Desolation upon the Holy city the Hierusalem which now is He comes as a whirl-wind to shake dreadfully the whole Earth He comes in a cloud to bring Darknesse Trouble Confusion upon the Spirits of all Mankinde He comes as a fire to burne upon all flesh till he have quite consumed it When He ariseth to raise