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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93882	Pantalogia. The saints abundance opened. / By Thomas Sterry preacher of the gospel. Published at the earnest intreaty of some friends. Imprimatur John Downame.	Sterry, Thomas.	1646 (1646)	Wing S5488; Thomason E355_28; ESTC R201127	14,218	28

in his tender heart and soul Thou hast ravished or taken away my heart c. Cant. 4.9 Of this friend's especially it is true the heart is not so much where it lives as where it loves By distinction of persons Christ and a Saint are two by union in affection he is theirs This as one branch is that unity which is the beleevers band of comfort Fourthly as their Advocate The expression is politicall a sublime title of office implying a Subject imploy'd after this way for another and as thus spoken of Jesus Christ we read it 1 Joh. 2.1 We have an Advocate with the Father Jesus Christ who as it is his office makes intercession for us Rom. 8.34 that is continues the mournfull act of his sacrifice after this manner The same body which in beleevers steads with strong cries and tears was upon the crosse once offered now virtually in the heavens with as strong prayers he still so offers up for them to the Father So that in this act of oblation for them his person is as an Advocate theirs And now lastly God the Spirit is abundance yea theirs as the Father's gift with Jesus Christ to them In one breath you may read all three Tit. 3.5 And renuing of the holy Ghost v. 6. * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as relating to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Which holy Ghost he the Father in a distinction from his Son and Spirit she●…n us abundantly by Jesus Christ Abundantly on us is here joyn'd with the Father's effusion of his Spirit declaring thereby it's signification to be an abundance and that theirs by the Father's gift To this Spirit also hath a beleever then as true a title as to the Father and the Son To them the promise the Father shall give you another Comforter the Spirit of truth Joh. 14.16 17. is fulfill'd Upon them the Father hath poured him forth They have him actually in possession peculiarly in title he is theirs Now as the other two persons had their distinct relations in which they were made over this hath his proper work in which he is theirs viz. This Spirit is their onely light by which they see all things necessary for them to see of the Father and Jesus Christ God hath made sence and reason lights in their own sphears to this world of nature but in the deep things of himself these are darknesse to a Saint As it is written eye hath not seen nor ear heard neither hath entred into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared 1 Cor. 2.9 But mark what follows God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit for he searcheth all things yea the deep things of God v. 10. And in v. 12. We have received the Spirit which is of God that we might know the things c. 'T is the proper work of this Spirit to sound these depths for from eternity he lived in the bosome of the Godhead and was privie to all in God and Jesus Christ 'T is his onely too to make them known As an inhabitant therefore he is said to dwell in beleevers 2 Tim. 1.14 Into whose minds to whose souls he continually bringe them Here shines the Saints light in a mistery they know these things not theoretically but feelingly as this Spirit reveals them Thus as well as I am able little of much have I set before you the relations of these persons of glory in which God freely makes himself over to his creature and not all but some yet by these few imperfect lineaments the spirituall sence of that Christiano-Platonicall thesis one was all and all one may be in some sort conjectured For this Trinity indeed is but One and that one a beleevers ALL. This is the close of the first Question Quest 2. What comfort hath a beleever more by having this ALL FREELY GIVEN him than by injoying it any other way Ans A great deal In the injoyment it is unspeakable full of glory Consider this All but simply as a gift so it was neither bought nor borrowed Deeds of Sale and Loan have each their trouble viz. Laerge expence short injoyment And were this all made over by either of these the creature must pay for it and at last part with it If the first their Stock not amounting to the ten thousandth part of the price they must then either go without it or be undone in the purchase Or if not so should God but lend Himself his Son his Spirit a time would come when but justly he would look for his own again Would not this then be as bad as the former The Creature would be undone in the surrender But now the Father hath burthened them with neither of these What they have they have by gift Herein then lies that which is better felt then spoke one peice of their comfort viz. With a price they are not troubled of a parting with they are not afraid This all though in respect of Christ it is true the Saints are bought with a price costs them nothing and is theirs to eternity Consider it again as a free gift And here if you would rightly understand the Answer of the Question have recourse in every particular as the sound passeth by your ear to the chearfull workings of your own soul Are the Saints intitled to are they possessed of All freely All then is theirs without reluctancie Jer. 30.18 The Father the proper giver waits to be gracious In his eye a chearfull giver is of great esteeme 2 Cor. 9.7 for he himself delights to give chearfully All such acts toward his own go not to but from his heart All is theirs without any motive externall Among men the glory of a gift's freenesse consists in the voluntarinesse of the spirit we use not therefore to call that free to which a man is outwardly provok'd Were God thus moved to give Himself Son and Spirit to a Saint a gift it might be but not free That therefore which he doth by deed of gift comes from a principle within him his love Joh. 3.16 that his gift might appear plainly to be free All is theirs without Condition The Father gives it not according to the Law but the tenour of the Gospel He binds not his Creature in the act of donation to the performance of Articles for their interest in his gift but bestows where he pleaseth without these Conditions it is true may perchance sometimes stand with a gift but they are alwaies limits to the freenesse of it that then which is bounded cannot be free This great gift therefore is unconditionate Thus I have done with the Doctrinall part Vses Now to close all give me leave my dear friends to speak thrice to you 1. First an Information Are beleevers thus possessed of All things in the injoyment of Jesus Christ They are then the onely rich men Rich absolutely rich incomparably none so rich nor truly so as they

ΠΑΝΤΑΛΟΓΙΑ THE SAINTS ABUNDANCE OPENED BY THOMAS STERRY Preacher of the GOSPEL Published at the earnest intreaty of some Friends Imprimatur JOHN DOWNAME LONDON Printed by F Neile for William Wenborn at the Signe of the Rose at the Bridge-foot 1646. TO THE TRULY VERTUOUS MY HIGHLY HONOURED FRIEND The Lady H. Wife to the RIGHT WORSHIPLVLL Sir H. H. KNIGHT THe Scriptures frequently tell of a wealth a plenty a fulnesse which beleevers onely have right to and injoy The best endeavours of your humble Servant hath been both in the Pulpit and the Presse to set this before you that in all Your relations in all Your injoyments on earth Your Soul might be carried forth after this abundance which in the Scriptures language is not onely true durable riches but honours too Ever Honoured pardon me if I humbly move to be heard in this viz. remember O! remember in all Your uses of this worlds plenty principally to use this abundance for by this alone can You be made for ever rich for ever Honourable And I bow my knees to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus that in all Your uses of this abundance You may use it as Your own That Solomons Proverb may for ever be Your impresso with me are riches and honours Thus he daily prays who is Madam Your Ladiships lowest Servant in Christ Jesus Thomas Sterry Novemb. 23. 1645. To the READER Reader BEcause in things of publick view it is a custome give me leave also to make my particular addresses Be it known I have done in the publishing of this no more than what many daily powerfull perswasions have drawn me to Loath indeed I was but being overcome my Motives turn'd to a Command and how great an insufficiencie soever I found in my self for it I must do it Now as I am able I have done it not with an intent if in me there were that Art to work upon you with the inticing words of mans wisdom but humbly to declare as a weak dim-sighted man as I have received the things of an immortall God yea the deep things on which hangs the eternall comfort of my own Soul Candidly I beseech you then imbrace what so I present remembring alwayes that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of God If any man think of or expect from these rurall lines otherwise on such I have spent my paine my time for nought with them my labours hath been in vain yet surely my judgement is with the Lord and my Labours with my God T. S. ΠΑΝΤΑΛΟΓΙΑ THE SAINTS ABUNDANCE OPENED ROM 8.32 How shall be not with him also freely give us all things I Will briefly acquaint you with one part of the Spirits aime in this Text from the Context It is from the confideration of a firm consolation to cheer to bear-up the spirits of such who are already under or apt to droop at the sad predictions of a holy life Which are If any man will come after me let him take up his crosse c. Luk. 9.23 Yea and all that will live godly shall suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3.12 In the 17. ver of this 8th Chapter these are call'd suffering with him Now for a revivall of their drooping hearts he presents this consolation viz. Sufferings are inferiour to glory A Saints Crosse is belowe his Crown If the earliest glimmerings of our Lord Jesus upon a Soul shroud so much joy so much strength of spirit within their own beams as overpower'th the crosse and smileth at the shame what will his meridian rays of glory when they shall be reveal'd With the least of these the whole body of a Saints sufferings is not worth the comparison Through infirmitie some have others may oppose it to glory but by lifting up your eye to the 18. ver view its worthlesse opposition The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be reveal'd in us The inward sence of this difference Present sufferings future glory together with the disproportion of These to That which makes them not worthy to be compar'd I can conveigh into none this is all I can say to every Soul that in respect of worth the basest metall with gold may be as well compar'd as sufferings with glory To this he adds Sufferings are no perpetuall impediment to glory A Saints crosse hinders not his crown any more than a dark night the rising of the Sun the next Morn Persecution by men may fleshly warrings against the mind shall troubles of all sorts for the night of this life indure but glory shall be reveal'd v. 18 ult part This appears by foure things By the Creatures expectation Saints qualification Spirits work Fathers love The first is the Creatures expectation There is a hidden strong defire of glory in every creature It appears by this their earnest expectation There is also a full discovery yet to be made of this glory It is evident by their Waiting for its manifestation Of both these you read in the 19. ver The earnest expectation of the creature waits for the manifestation of the sons of God This manifestation c. is spoken in reference to glory and in the 21. ver is call'd the glorious liberty of the sons of God With one force these verses with the 22.23 prove by all our fellow creatures notwithstanding great opposition a future glory of the Saints The second is the Saints qualification This the Spirit notes in two expressions Hope Patience Of their Hope you read in the 24. ver We are saved by hope in ver 25. for that which we see not of their Patience in the same vers then or therefore do we with patience wait for it To me these expressions seem to concur in this fignification The certain manifestation of invisible glory to the Saints But with this distinction First as the ground of their hope From future certainty springs hope infallible This hope is the true present union of the Soul with that certainty the true reall appearance of that to the soul Glory invisible without all question shall be reveal'd This leads the soul to hope for its discovery Which act of the soul is its sweet close its secret conjunction with that glory invisible that glorie 's true present appearance to it Good Abraham thus saw though then it was a far off the brightnesse of the Fathers glory Thas Saints now see that which shall be reveal'd the excellent glory of that glory This is the appearance the manifestation of glory to the Saints in this life This is their salvation by hope Secondly as the Crown of their patience These words Then do we with patience wait for it implies as much Saints are men singular in the world they discover more by hope than by sence and recover more by patience then by pains That shall be finish'd gloriously crown'd with the full accomplishment of its expectation The Saints therefore wait