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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93876	The commings [sic] forth of Christ in the power of his death. Opened in a sermon preached before the High Court of Parliament, on Thursday the first of Novem. 1649. being a publike thanksgiving for the victories obtained by the Parliaments forces in Ireland, especially for the taking of Droghedah, since which Wexford also was taken. By Peter Sterry, sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge: and now preacher of the Gospel in London.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.; England and Wales. Parliament. aut	1649 (1649)	Wing S5476; Thomason E578_1; ESTC R203622	37,495	77

made The Twofold Principle 1. Of Love 2. Of Wrath are the Two Hands of Jesus Christ in or by which he worketh All Matth. 25. 33. All Good things are wrought in a Principle of Love through the Good Angels from the Right hand of Christ These things come as Effects of Divine Love as Objects for our Love All Evil things are wrought in a Principle of Wrath through the Devil from the Left hand of Christ These things come as Effects of Divine hatred as Objects for our Hatred and Grief The Divine Power worketh Two ways 1. Way By a Universal Concurrence with each Creature 2. Way By a Particular Confinement in each Creature Divines say The Creating Power as it is terminated in God is God as it is terminated in the Creature is the Creature 1. The Divine Power in its Universal Concurrence is God It is that Eternal Word going forth with every Particular Operation and Temporal Production as a Back to it The Sun and Man bring forth a Man Jesus Christ and the Creature bring forth Every work in the Creature Joh. 1. 3. Without him apart from him hath been done not any one thing which hath been done So it runs in Greek word for word 2. The Divine Power as it is Particularised Circumstantiated Confined in each Creature it is that Creature The Work in the Lowest and Least things on Gods part on Christs part is a Universal Work and therefore not to be exprest by any Particular Name except it be in a Figure onely Colos. 1. 17. Christ is said to be Before all things and all things consist {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} stand together in him Every work on Christs part is an Omni-form Work a Universal Peece in which All his Works lie together in One and are perfectly One Although on the Creatures part it be a Divided Peece a Small Particular As therefore the Name of Christ so each Work in the Creation as it is Christs and Gods is above every Name that is named both in this World and that which is to come Ephes. 1. 21. 2. God is All I know not any Place of Scripture which Countenanceth this Expression except it be That 1 Cor. 15. 28. That God may be All in All God is un-changeable He is All in All Essentially to himself He shall be All in All Manifestatively to the Creature Take these Directions for the Sense of it 1. God is not All Collectively as the World is This All a Heap a Composure of many Beings in Rank and Order Hear O Israel the Lord thy God is One 2. God is not All Distributively He is not This or That Particular Thing God is not as Man saith the Holy Ghost If God were any Particular Thing He were not an Absolute All 3. God is All by way of Efficacy as he doth All 4. God is All by way of Excellency He is the Truth Substance Life of All All Things compared with Him are Dead Pictures Shadows onely of Him as Nothing in comparison with Him 3. All Things are in God I confess that the Scriptures often speak to this Purpose Yet there is no maner of Speaking that requires more Distinction and Caution in taking a Right Sense of it Corolaries are drawn from This by all Companies of Men to colour their Apprehensions Things may be said to be in God six ways 1. Materially So none of all the Creatures can be imagined to be in God as any Part of Him as making up His Being as the Matter of It. The Divine Nature hath neither Parts nor Particulars It is Simple Undivided Un-compounded Psal. 50. 13. Will I eat the Flesh of Bulls or drink the Blood of Goats saith God The Essence of God and That alone may be said in a Figurative Sense to be as the Matter in the Godhead 2. Formally No Creature is in God formally according to its Proper Form and Being John 1. 1 5. God is Light and in Him is no Darkness at All Darkness is the Principal Thing in the very Essence and Form of the Creature I mean a Negative Darkness To what will ye liken me There is no more the Formality or Proper Essence of any Creature in the Form and Essence of God then Angels have Lips Ears Eyes The Three Persons of the Trinity are Formally in God and They alone There are Three that bear Record in Heaven 1 John 5. 3. Virtually Thus All things are of a truth in God Forasmuch as He brings forth bears up All things by the Word of His Power Heb. 1. 3. Thus All Colours are said to be in Light Heat and All Elementary Qualities in the Heavenly Bodies 4. Eminently It is most true that All things Created are in their Great Creator Eminently Psal. 139. 12. The Night shineth as the Day the Darkness and the Light are Both alike to Thee Darkness and Light are Both in God not onely Representatively but Really not in their Ideas onely but their Identities yet not Materially nor Formally but Eminently after a more Perfect maner than they are in themselves as in the Supream Unity of All Perfections So the Darkness of Sense may be a Beautiful Bright Notion or Form in the Understanding A Wound in a Bleeding Fainting Person may make a Pleasant Picture as it lies in the Riches of the Painters Fancy and Colours 5. Immediately Jesus Christ alone is this way in God 1 Cor. 3. 1. Christ is Gods As the Firmament or Eighth Sphere in which the Innumerable Stars are set is held by some to be immediately next the Empyrean Heaven or Heaven of Glory So Jesus Christ in whose Person the Saints are set like Stars lies in the Bosom of God 6. By Mediate Subordinations Heavens comprehend the Earth Themselves are comprehended of Angels Angels of Christ Christ of God For God brings forth Angels by the Mediation of Christ Col. 1. 15 16. Jesus Christ manageth this World by the Mediation of Angels Heb. 2. 5. The Angels govern the Earth by Heavenly Influences Hosea 2. 21. By this Subordination the Frame of Nature lies in God All Pure and Spiritual Things are in the Spirit of Grace Gal. 5. 25. This Spirit is in the Love of Christ Christ is in God All things Corrupt and Carnal lie in the Devil 1 John 5. 19. The Devil lies in the Wrath of Christ Christ is in God Accordingly the Ideas or Original Images of things have a Proportioned Order in the Divine Nature For God is a God of Order not of Confusion in His own Essence On this Mount is the Pattern of that Order which is set in the Church and the Creation Jesus Christ who is the Word the Book of God the Eternal Image of All Images in the Eye of God He is a Wisdom This Wisdom is the Platform of that which is drawn out in the Creation of Nature the Regeneration of Grace the Condemnation of the Devil 4. All is God This seemeth to me the Unsafest Phrase The Holy Ghost no where hath any thing like it to my Knowledg neither doth it seem Savoury to the Tast of my Spirit I would willingly go over such Depths of Divinity upon those Bridges of Notion and Expression which the Scripture layes out for me Object It is true that God beholdeth All things that are as they are that He contemplateth All things in the Glass of the Trinity seeing in Himself what ever He seeth that Every Thing in God is God For God is Light and in Him is no Darkness that is nothing besides the Pure Light of Divinity 1 John 1.