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A61475	The spirit convincing of sinne opened in a sermon before the Honorable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament upon the solemne day of their monethly fast, Novemb. 26, 1645 / by Peter Sterry ...	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1645 (1645)	Wing S5483; ESTC R34606	20,614	44

brought us into his his own {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} marvelous Light Hee that sees Christ sees him in a strange wonderfull in a divine Light in God's own Light To believe is thus to see Christ and to live continually by this sight of Christ The life I live is by the faith of the Son of God Gal. 2. chap. ver. ult. Paul was convinc'd by this sight of Christ and of this sin that he had ever liv'd on any other sight Gal. 1. chap. 16. vers. When it pleased the Father to reveale his Son in mee I consulted not with flesh and blood You may see by Paul's Conversion what his Conviction was He had consulted with flesh and blood that is with Principles of Reason with the Spirit of man what should hee have consulted with or whom with the Word the immortall Word with the Wisdome of God with the discoveries of Jesus Christ in him Is this the Sin you chiefly mourn for this day By this judge of your convictions Do you grieve to think that the glory of God hath shined so long so sweetly from the face of Christ filling all things round about you while you have been sitting under the shadow of humane wit and reason as in the shadow of death That so bright a Day hath dawn'd from the Person of the Lord Jesus and yet you sit spinning out your Counsels and Course by the candle-light of man's spirit and policy as in the night Do your hearts sigh-forth this sense Lord we have sate in counsell concerning the great affairs of many Kingdomes Churches Common-wealths but not by thy Wisdome by the shining forth of thy Son in us Many Principles of State Reason Policy have raigned over us but the sight of thee O Jesus in our hearts hath not ruled us When the Spirit convinceth of sin hee makes this the great sin and folly that the appearances of Christ have not been our Sun and shield No such shield is there to defend us from the strifes contentions conspiracies of men and things as to be hid in the light of our Saviour's looks No such advantage is there as to gain this Sun to have the beamings forth of our Husband-king on our side How do the glorious dartings of his presence from among us dazle the spirits of our enemies trouble their order and make them unable to fight against us or hurt us When the Spirit convinceth of sin hee shews us that the story of things in the Wildernesse was a Figure for us under the Gospel 1 Cor. 10. c. 4. ver. When the Jews were to passe over the river Jordan the Ark went before them so they passed through dry-shod When they travelled through the Desart the Cloud the Glory went before them as that moved they marched on when that rested they stood still Your Ark now is the spirituall presence of Jesus Christ in your hearts the Cloud the Glory now is the appearance of your Saviour resting upon your spirits You have waded through many rivers of blood have you seen the discoveries of your Jesus going before you and followed these You have made many Marches many Rests hath the wel-pleased face of your Jesus as your Leading-starre been still in your eye Have you march't as this hath moved Where this hath stood still have you stay'd The Jews sung of old What ailed you ye waters that ye fled ye seas that ye were driven backwards The waters saw thee O God and fled before thee If these things be thus with you you may go forth and say in your songs What ailed you ye mighty armies at Keinton Newbury York Naseby that ye fled and were driven backwards What ailed you ye strong treasons close conspiracies that ye trembled and fell and your foundations were discovered before you could take effect They saw thee O Jesus they saw thee appearing in the midst of us so they fled so they fell before thee If things have not been thus with you behold the sin over which you are principally to powre out your tears Behold the sin which troubles you Assure your selves all your acts in Counsell and Camp will be Null till the Lord Jesus be as the shout of a King in the midst of you Vain are all our hopes sweet dreams of Peace till our Deare Saviour shew himself among you as once among his Disciples Saying Peace be with you Breathing Peace upon you These are the Perswasives in which Rationall and Spirituall convictions for sin differ not all but some few which I have chosen for you from among the rest Now remains the difference between these Convictions in the Principles themselves Principles The Principles themselves are the Spirit of Man or Reason the Spirit of God But I can no more convey a sense of this difference into any soule that hath not seen these two Lights shining in it self than I can convey the difference between Salt and Sugar to him who hath never tasted Sweet or Sharp These things are discerned only by exercise of senses and are too hard for those who have not their own senses exercised in them as St. Paul speaks Hebr. 5. chap. 14. ver. When you shall see the Sea of Truth the Spirit then you will know that the Great River of Reason was not the Sea I can tell you that as much as the complexion of a face the colour of a cloth or lace seen by Moon-light and Sun-shine differ So and farre more do the convictions or discoveries by Reason and the Spirit But still this is the difference in the Effects not in the Principles themselves To give you as I may some shadowie description of this I will commend to your most constant and serious meditations that place 1 Cor. 15. chap. 45. v. The first man was a living soule the last man a quickening spirit Vers. 46. The naturall is first and then the spirituall Vers. 48. As the earthy so are they that are earthy as is the heavenly so are they that are heavenly Vers. 49. As we have born the Image of the earthly man so shall we beare the Image of the heavenly From these places you may draw these Architectonick or commanding Conclusions 1. A Living soule in her full glory as she was in the first man in innocencie in Paradise is not the Principle of the second man the new birth but the All-quickening the Eternall Spirit 2. A Living soule with the highest improvements raised to the noblest actings of Wit Reason Worth is naturall not spirituall the Image of the first Adam not the Image of the Lord Jesus 3. The naturall and spirituall man differ as much as earth and heaven corruption and immortality flesh and spirit You see the difference between these two sorts of convictions as I have been able to set it before you I will now conclude this Use with an Admonition as I begun it An earthly Root may bring forth earthly fruit nothing can reach up to Heaven and immortalitie but that which

have annext three Rules 1. Rule Every principle of truth is to be confin'd to its own compasse to its own object To seek out spirituall things by the sent and sagacity of reason were to plough with an Oxe and an Asse Sensus non fallitur circa proprium objectum Sense is not deceived in judging of its own proper object If sense and reason make no other report but this This is the state of things according to our principles this is the appearance of things to us Sense and reason may be admitted for true witnesses But if they will be wise beyond what is written in their book and say This is the only absolute true appearance of things because this is the appearance which things make to us Now sense and reason become blind guides and will lead you into the ditch 1 Cor. 2. 12. Spirituall things are spiritually discern'd By proportion sensuall things are sensually discern'd rationall things are rationally discern'd You cannot reach the things of reason by the hand of sense though it be stretch't out like Jeroboam's towards the Prophet You cannot understand spirituall things Rationally that is upon the grounds of Reason 2. Ru. Right Appearances of things to one Principle of truth may be directly contrary to those which are right Appearances of the same things to another Principle of truth The greatest lights of this world Angels and Invisible things are meere darknesse to the eye of sense The light of this life is darknesse in the language of the Scripture Darknesse it selfe is as the light before the face of God 1 Cor. 2. 14. The wisdome of the Spirit is foolishnesse to the Naturall man The Apostle distinguisheth betweene two men {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Man whose Principle is Rationall soul and Man whose Principle is the Spirit That which is Wisdome to one is Foolishnesse to the other 3. Ru. Lower Principles of Truth cannot comprehend the Higher but they are comprehended and judged by these So Philosophers say that Reason corrects the errors of Sense 1 Cor. 2. 15. The spirituall man judgeth all things but he is judg'd or discern'd by none ver. 9. Eye hath not seen eare hath not heard neither can the heart of mā receive the things of the Gospel See here both Principles of Sense and Reason The senses are too superficial the large heart of Man the vast spirit of Reason in him is too narrow to take in any thing of the spirit But the spirit understands them with all their wayes and workings {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} distinctly and critically These three Principles of truth are as three Circles upon the face of the water one within another the lesser are infolded in the greater but cannot extend themselves to the wide compasse of the greater circle unlesse they break and vanish in themselves that they may become one with it If any man be wise let him become a foole that he may be wise The soule shuts the windowes of sense when she would have the room fill'd with the light of Reason Reason's selfe must first be cast cast into a deep sleep and die before she can rise again in the brightnesse of the Spirit I have dispatch'd the first Distinction Dist. 2d All three Persons in the Trinity are Truth but with their severall and distinct Idioms or Characters The Father is the onely True God Joh. 17. 3. The Son is Truth Joh. 14. 6. The Spirit is Truth Joh. 5. 5. But 1. The Father is Truth in the Root therefore hee is call'd the Father of Lights Jam. 1. 17. 2. The Son is Truth in the Image He is the Image of the Invisible God Coloss. 1. 15. 3. The Spirit is Truth in the Irradiation or Discovery therefore the Spirit is the witnessing Truth 1 Joh. 5. The Spirit is the testifying Truth Ioh. 15. 26. Nazianzen delivers the Doctrine of the Trinity to us from that place of Scripture Psal. 36. 9. In thy light shall we see light 1. The Father is Light in the Fountain Thy Light 2. The Son is Light in the Face or Fulnesse See Light 3. The Spirit is Light in the Flowing or Emanation of it In light The Father is the Light from which is all we see The Son is Light which we see The Spirit the Light by which we see Sin is spiritually discern'd Privations and Habits Perfections and Defects are judg'd by the same faculty The eye discerns light and darknesse Sin is a privation or the absence of Divine Grace Holinesse is frequently exprest by light sin by darknesse Holinesse is a spirituall beauty sin deformity Both are perceiv'd by the same Spirit VSES An Admonition You have dedicated this day and many such dayes to a holy sorrow I know some I beleeve many I hope most of you carry broken hearts in your bosomes thorough these dayes Indeed very nature in you cannot but relent and reason it selfe tremble to see those things which your eyes see Three Kingdomes stand before you this day like those three crosses on Mount Golgotha all laden with broken and bleeding carkasses These three doth your God take as one Text that hee may preach sin to your soules from it that he may convince you of sin by it Behold Scotland comes with her thousands of slain men England with her ten thousands Ireland with her millions besides innumerable multitudes which no man can reckon up of families persons now undone now famishing These come crying to every one of us Our bloods be upon your heads if you weep not for us before our God this day whilest we bleed and dye Sure your hearts doe break at the representation of these things which your selves know to bee at this present farre more sad in Fact then they can be made by any Relation You that are the Fathers of your Countries over all this Nation doe you not often look back upon your severall Countries with a tender and dropping eye Do you not find as much reason and sweetnesse as once David did to sigh and say within your selves Lord we have sin'd wee should have kept this people as their shepheards but we have procur'd their woe Alas what have these sheep done But now is it not pitie that broken hearts should be worthlesse and uselesse that God should say of our Mourning as Solomon sayes of Mirth what doth it Yet so it will be if it be your Reason onely and not the Spirit which by your sufferings convinceth you of your sins If your convictions and contritions be Rationall and no more your groanes will be to God as the unpleasing cry the howling of wild beasts when they are pinch'd with famine or caught in a toyle He that sacrificeth with a heart thus broken will be as if he offer'd a Dog's Heart Doth it not much concern you to know whether your convictions be from a Rationall or Spirituall Principle Are you not eager to