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A61473	Free grace exalted, and thence deduced evangelical rules for evangelical sufferings : in two discourses made 29 March, and 10 May 1670, from Rom. 5, 21.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1670 (1670)	Wing S5480; ESTC R38299	24,282	32

of his Chamber richly adorned as the Sun in a Summer morning fresh and sweet with beauty of his grace to take thee out of thy state of sin and sorrow out of the tumults of the flesh to his Bridall Chamber to his Marriage Chariot to Ryde with him as his Queen canst thou now think there are any joyes any treasures to be compared with this State have you thus in the Ministry of his grace seen the Lord Jesus and received him in his love into your souls and is not one hour spent thus better than thousands in all the glory of the world is not one grain of this glory better of more worth than all this world at present with respect to the present sweetness what will it then be as it grows up in full ripe Fruits to Eternity Thus suffer for attending to the Ministry of grace Thirdly Suffer for your obedience only to the grace of God the Wise men followed the Starr though it went into a Stable because there they met with the King of glory Behold a more beautifull guide than a Starre I will guide thee by my eye the face of God to his people is the day spring from on high Follow this day spring this eye this face of God whethersoever it leads thee though to a Manger though to a Prison though to the Cross and to the Grave to Poverty and Desolation Oh follow it for where-ever it leads you you shall find your Jesus there the Prince of glory turning the Stable the Prison to a Palace of glory and turning the Cross to a flourishing Tree of life budding as Aarons Rod. Fourthly Suffer only for the kingdome of grace there be two Scriptures which I shall present to you to make good this part of my Exhortation Heb. 11.13 They confessed that they were strangers and Pilgrims on the earth then 14th They that say such things declare they sought a Countrey a Kingdome but what Kingdom 15. vers not that from whence they came and 16. but now they desire a better Countrey that is an heavenly therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God for he hath prepared for them a City they seek a Countrey 't is their heavenly native Countrey the word is Patrida 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suffer as Pilgrims here not to be Princes care not for it have you been cast out of your Possessions Estates and Glories here and desire not to return whatever opportunities present themselves let not this be in your eye in suffering profess here you have no abiding place no enduring substance profess your selves Pilgrims give your selves to suffer as such let your eye be upon your native Countrey on the heavenly Jerusalem now you please God to the heart and God delights to be called your God when together with him you will be sojourners here and seek no kingdome but that in which he Reigns now God will prepare now God hath prepared for you a City nay a Kingdome The second Scripture is 2 Cor. 4.18 with the 5th and 1st what carryed Paul through suffering saith he We look not at the things that are seen but things not seen which are Eternal and now we know that if our earthly house of this Tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God Eternal in the Heavens and this we groan for to be cloathed with our house which is from Heaven not to be uncloathed but clothed that mortality may be swallowed up of life here 's a Kingdome for which alone all the Saints are to suffer not of this world nor in this world not of the flesh or in the flesh but of the spirit and in the spirit but for an invisible kingdome which the eye of no natural understanding can reach a kingdome seated and established in God a kingdome eternal in the Heavens where the invisible light and glory swallows up all that is visible temporal and mortal into it self for this kingdome of grace endure sufferings so you will be like Christ for it is said he endured for the joy set before him what was that joy set before him see that John 17.5 And now O Father glorifie me with thy self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was see here the joy and kingdome which was in the eye of Christ that kingdome of God above which is righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost which is not in this world which was before the world was a kingdome in Eternity God himself that kingdome the invisible eternal glory of the God-head which was when the world was not and shall be when the world is no more which while the world continues is the same but not in the world nor in appearance to sence or reason but in the invisibility of the eternal spirit in a glory farr surmounting sence or reason this kingdome was in Christs eye when he suffered now the joy of this kingdome made him despise the shame Oh be ye like Christ and suffer for this kingdome to reign with God in his invisible and eternal glory So much for this second Rule To suffer only for the grace of God Thirdly Let us suffer with the grace of God in our spirits when the Disciples desired Jesus Christ to call for fire from Heaven to destroy those Samaritans that would not suffer him to go through their City Jesus Christ saith unto them Ye know not what spirits you are of these words are capable of a two-fold sence first you know not not O my Lambs what is your proper spirit and how that you ask is your proper spirit this is unproper to my spirit and do you desire to know what spirit this is the Holy Ghost tells in the Epistle of Saint James Jam. 3.14 If you have any bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lye not against the truth this is a bitter Zeal in the Original call not this Zeal Religion and Grace and the Spirit of the Gospel you lye against the truth if you do so this wisdome is not from above but is earthly sensual and devillish O see what spirit we are of if we call for fire from Heaven to consume those that reject us and resist us to destroy the soul or life of any man this is a bitter Zeal and brings in 16 vers Confusion and every evil work A second sence is you know not what spirit you are of that is you do not understand what the spirit of grace of the Gospel in you is and what the spirit of a Saint under the Gospel is For the Son of Man came not to destroy souls but to save them would you know the proper spirit of a Saint see that in the 17th vers But the wisdome that is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle easie to be entreated full of mercy and the fruits of righteousness are sown in peace without partiality the word is without wrangling See the spirit which is your spirit the spirit of Saintship

grace of God to be acquainted with it and that their acquaintance may encrease seek acquaintance with the free grace of God with all your heart let all the desires of your heart be wrapt up in the search of free grace Psalm 27.8 My heart saith seek my face thy face will I seek free grace eternal love this is the naked face of God Oh seek let your heart with all within you say to you continually by day and by night seek the face of God the grace of God and let your heart answer again in the truth of your practice thy grace O God we will seek all good things of time and eternity are wrapt up in the grace of God wisdome is a tree of life to those that take hold of it 't is the Gospel is the Tree of life 't is grace is the Gospel the glad tydings from Heaven take hold of this grace of God by faith 't is a tree of life God is the root of this tree in thy spirit when you take hold of the grace of God you shall have the Father the Fountain of this grace the Son the Channel full of this grace the holy Spirit as the living Streams living Water and Floud of this grace pouring out it self into thee you shall have the new nature the spiritual man the budds of this tree springing out of this root and every spiritual grace as the branches of it and all joy and glory of the spirit as the fruit of free grace on which your soul shall feed as on the fruit of his own tree O then follow free grace wait for it seek acquaintance with it with all your understanding might and power My next Use is to warn all that profess the name of God to take heed of living under the law of abiding in a legal spirit you shall see how I come to this admonition from this doctrine if you consider that Text which loudly alarums us to hast from Sinai to Sion 6 Rom. 14. For Sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under the Law but under grace O behold and tremble to see that the law and grace are inconsistent in their reign if you be under the law you cannot be under grace if you be under grace you are no more under the law if you be under the law sin domineers over you grace is no King to you O then be fearful to build Tabernacles on Mount Sinai in clouds and earth-quakes under the administration of the law but you will say how shall we know if we be under the law or no I shall at this time give you one character to know it by art thou still in thy natural estate of unregeneracy of unbelief then you are under the law and not under grace the Lord Jesus tells John 3.3 Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdome of God and again Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God art then acquainted but with a natural birth art thou a stranger to the new birth the second birth that from above where grace is a King whose Kingdome is righteousness peace and joy in the holy Ghost art not thou born of water and of the spirit of that spirit the spirit of grace of that water which is above the Firmament the grace of this spirit which flows for ever then you cannot see or enter into the Kingdome of grace there is a Cherub with a flaming sword the Ministry of the law that keeps the entrance that you cannot tast the sweetness joy and glory of this grace the law hath dominion over thee and sin death the devil and eternal wrath have dominion over thee according to thy present state Oh that you would lament this with tears of blood that your hearts would break with longings till grace according to its freedome translate from this Kingdome of the law to its own Kingdome and Dominion a Kingdome of Heaven upon Earth Alas while under the law in vain do you strive to break the chains of corruption and lust guilt and fear sin reigns powerfully and will reign to death to a first death a dark and melancholly state to the second death a long and endless night without any glimps of light or the least refreshment where you lye in torments unexpressible beyond that of the highest fear in unquenchable burnings where evil spirits and devils in this Kingdome of the law and wrath pour continually oyl to the fire and cry out where be the pleasures of sin the riches of the world where is your pomp happiness and joy now in all the things that were seen and be now vanished and be as fuel to heighten your flame O come to the Lord Jesus and be councelled by him we read when an Army of the Philistines lay between David and Bethlehem he cryed out Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the Well of Bethlehem which is by the gate and three mighty men brake through the Host and brought water to David but he poured it out unto the Lord and said far be it from me is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives Hear all you that are under the law the bosome of the Father is the true Bethlehem the house of bread Jesus Christ the bread of God is there in the gate of this Bethlehem is a fountain of grace O long day and night cry and say in the ear of the Lord Jesus who will give to drink of that Fountain in the gate of Bethlehem in the fountain of grace then I shall not be parch'd with the burning heat of lust of guilt of grief of pain then shall I thirst no more after the poysons of this world the least drop of that water would be an eternal solace to my soul Oh hear and see thou that thus longest and faintest to drink but cryest alass there be Armies between thee and this fountain Armies of corruptions of guilt of sin and wrath Armies of devils Oh who now shall give me to drink of this fountain Be not cast down look up behold and see and rejoyce to see Jesus Christ the mighty Worthy of God hath broke through all these Armies and in despight of all he brings of the living water of grace from the fountain of grace for thee to drink nay he brings thee to the fountain in the bosome of the Father Oh now in this moment thou that hast hitherto been in thy natural estate under the dominion of the law hear his voyce that by the Ministry brings thee to the fountain of grace that calls thee to come freely without money and without price to drink deep of this fountain this shall spring up to all righteousness holiness and joy in thee this shall spring up as streams to make thee flourish like the garden of God Oh that the Lord Jesus would be present with thee now to a new