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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

Sense of the utmost good or ill of this Kingdome first your Parent now your Foster-child If you have any Sense of your own Safeties your Soules your immortalitie any thing Send up a strong and secret groane which God may heare and say within you O! that the Lord Jesus that All-quickning Spirit would descend into our Spirits and become a Spring of Divine sorrowes there Then should our Teares be as His Blood O! that the Lord Jesus the Highest Image of Love and Beauty the most profaned and persecuted would set Himselfe before our eyes Then should we know Why and How to weep then should we weep indeed If our Dear Saviour would make his Arms our Crosse that we might from thence offer our Broken Hearts in Sacrifice to the Father then would our God smell a sweet Savour of Rest in us and at length give us Rest in Himselfe This is the second Consideration in the Preparative 2. The Vse This is A Humiliation from a Three-fold Ground 1. Insensiblenesse in our Spirits of our Saviour's Approach 2. Unsuitablenesse in our Counsailes to the Course of His Comming 3. Enmity in our Affections to the Intent of His Comming 1st Ground Insensiblenesse Is not the Comming of Christ that by which God designes to make Himselfe Admired among His Saints as Saint Paul testifies 2 Thes. 1.10 When He shall come to be Glorified in His Saints and Admired c. Is not this that at which All the Angels of God bow themselves and worship Heb. 1.6 When He bringeth His First-begotten Againe into the world He saith Let All the Angels of God worship Him Is not this the Grand Wheel which moves All the Centrall Motion which carries about Persons Kingdomes the whole Creation Heb. 1.7 When Christ comes the second Time God saith of the Angels He hath made His Angels Spirits His Ministers a Flame of Fire All Angelicall or Elementary Instruments of Motion are but His Ministers propagating His Motions thorow the world Can This be thus and we Ignorant or Insensible of This Comming of Christ without the Highest sinne against God the Kingdome our own safeties Let us then endeavour to apply this use to our selves more properly and powerfully by a Three-fold Enquiry concerning this first Ground of Humiliation Have we seen Iesus Christ as he Comes among the Angels 1 Tim. 3.16 Saint Paul tels us now This is the Greatest Mystery of Godlinesse God manifested in the Flesh justified in the Spirit seen of Angels Behold Jesus Christ as God puts forth Himselfe in the Forme of Flesh of the Creature and over-spreads that Form or Flesh with the Glory and Spirit of the God-head Thus He shines forth already upon the One Half of Things the Invisible Part He already is risen upon the Angels as Starres at once gathering them up into His Divine Light and riding forth upon their Beames So each Starre now carryes forth a Sun along with it Each Angel the Son of man and God Saint Paul tels us Colos. 2.10 that Christ is the Head of All Principality and Power Our Lord Jesus cloth'd with the Glory of His Father hath united Himselfe to the Acting Principles and Ruling Powers of this Creation Now He Flames forth thorow these invisible Fires into all Courts Campes or Counsailes into every Frame of things Now He flyes abroad upon the Backs of these Cherubims and the Wings of these Winds into the Breast of each Man into the Bosome of each Creature We reade Colos. 2.15 Having spoyled Principalities and Powers He made a Shew of them Openly Triumphing over Them See the Lord Jesus binding Evill Spirits the Powers of This world in straiter Chaines of Darknesse leading them Captives at the Taile of His Chariot making them His Slaves to Serve Him for Executioners as the Mutes doe the Great Turke to raine downe Snares Tempests Fire and Brimstone on His Enemies Have you seene the Lord thus mounted on His Horses of Fire Like the Sun like a Champion comming forth to run His Race from one end of Things to the Other Are you come to this Mount Sion where the Mediatour appears with God in the midst of His innumerable Angels If you be Strangers to such Sights then Mourn For you are yet at Mount Sinai in the midst of Clouds and Stormes You are still in a Wildernesse full of Fiery Serpents where every Step you take may be to a Death As you Mourn Pray Sweet Iesus Shine Sweet Iesus Come thou as the Day-spring from on High upon us Change the Appearance Open to us this New Frame of Angels Glories covering the World like Clouds and thy Glories raised on These Have you Seen the Lord Iesus Comming in the Spirits of Men on Earth This is the 2. Step of our Saviour's Descent from the Bosome of the Father We are taught Luke 17.20 21. that The Kingdome of God commeth not with Observation For the Kingdome of God is within You. The Glory of the Father in which Christ Comes is the Kingdome of God This is not obvious to Sence or Reason grounded upon Sence For it comes not their way from without It bubbles up from an inward Spring like Life From within it Enlarges it Selfe as Circles from the Center the Out-most being Last This is the Method by which our Saviour comes Spiritually into the world First the Godhead opens it Selfe upon the Humane Nature of Christ making that the First-fruits of the whole Creation Colos. 1.18 Secondly the Lord Jesus with this over-spreading Glory comes downe upon the Angels making them the First-fruits of Spirits The Third Step which He takes is through the Angels into the Souls of Mortall Men In these He plants Himselfe as a Throne Circled in with the various Beauties of Angels like the diverse-Coloured Raine-bow Revel. 4.3 Thus these become the First-fruits of Men Rom. 8.23 The Fourth Remove is upon the Bodies of the Saints that they may be the First-fruits of Bodies The Last is the Passing of the Lord Jesus from the Bodies of the Saints into the whole Frame of Visible Things as a Flame still taking hold of Neighbouring Fuell Still Catching and Infolding it selfe thorow All Things By these Degrees the Lord Descends in Glorious State and as He Descends Transfigures all Things into the Same Glory The Comming of Christ is Compared to the Day 1 Thes. 5.5 Ye are Children of the Day And so 2 Pet. 1.1 Till the Day dawne The Lord Jesus as He riseth like a Sun upon the World first diffuseth Himselfe through the Skie of the Angelicall Nature Then falls as a Glory upon the Tops of the Mountaines the Higher Parts of the Earth the Soules of Men From thence He slides downe into Plaines and Lower Valleies The Bodily Part of Things Unhappy He That Sees not the Comming of Christ into His own Soul What is it which He Sees not He Sees not the Sweetnesse in His Saviour's Eyes A Forgiving A Melting A Molding A Ravishing Sweetnesse A Sweetnesse that freely Forgives

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