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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93881	The true way of uniting the people of God in these nations· Opened in a sermon preached in the chappel at White-Hall, Jan. 1. 1659. By Peter Sterry.	Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing S5486A; ESTC R213121	18,882	37

Dust into a Living and Glorious Body as by a double Resurrection from the Dead O! that it may now appear that Jesus hath been this Resurrection that he is the Root out of which you are now the third time sprung up that it is He who is risen in you Then are you risen unto Honor and not unto Shame Then shal you exalt Jesus Christ in his Members Truth and Love in the Presence and Out-shinings of His Heavenly Person as the Head of your Union So shal he be in the midst of you a Head of Union to the Saints and to these Nations You shal go forth as his Angels to gather his Saints from the four winds to which they are dispersed and to Him in you shal the gathering of the People be Suffer him then to display his Banners freely choose him for your only Standard bearer Sin no more against him who hath thus wonderfully appeared unto you Twice lest a worse scattering and death come upon you This is the First Way of Vnion The Second Way Cherish the Spirit as the only Band of Vnion Ephes 4.3 Endeavoring to keep the Vnity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace The Unity of the Spirit is the Bond of Peace 1 Cor. 12.13 By one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body To make way for that which I am to say of the Spirit I have two Cautions to interpose to prevent Objections First I intend not any thing that I shal plead for the Spirit as a pretence to the Flesh I humbly conceive a fleshly licentiousness justified by the name of the Spirit to be if not that sin it self yet the next step to the sin against the Holy Ghost Secondly I would not have the Glory which I give to the Spirit interpreted as a laying aside of the Ordinances or a reflection upon the Forms of Godliness While we have the Life of Christ in these Earthly Bodies and the manifestations of the Spirit in this flesh Ordinances and outward Forms wil be of necessary use Only these Rules are carefully to be observed First That our Ordinances and outward Forms flow naturally kindly and freely from the Spirit Secondly That we behold them in the Light and enjoy them in the Life of the Spirit Thirdly That we rest not in them but make use of them to grow up through them into the invisible and Heavenly things themselves I have premised this to the Second Way which I have propounded for the uniting of the People of God which is this Fix no Principle of Vnion among the Saints but only the Holy Spirit This one Spirit is that which baptizeth us into one body and by its unity preserveth us in the Bond of Peace Give me leave to insert here three Observations Two of which I have often heard made upon these Times One my self have made upon my self Obs 1. As the Spirit in the simplicity and liberty of it hath been held forth and asserted in our Supreme Counsels and Forces for the Bond of our Union so they have prospered they have not been only as stars in a cloudy night now appearing for a little while and then suddenly lost but as the Stars in the Revelation held cleerly forth held unmovably fast in the right hand of Jesus Christ But when they have declined this Interest when they have disowned or confined this Spirit as God is said to have set an ambush in the midst of Edom Moab and Ammon when they came against Jehoshaphat that they divided and destroyed one another so as by an invisible ambush from Heaven have they been broken to pieces Obs 2. When any persons have fixt to themselves any thing visible any thing besides this invisible anointing the blessed Spirit for a principle of Unity a dividing wrathful desolating Spirit hath sprung up into the midst of them All pretended Bonds of Union in this kind have been like the Formal names of Christ and Paul in the mouths of the Sons of Sheva instead of casting out they conjure up a fierce and fiery Spirit These are the Observations which I have heard made by others upon these Times Obs 3. That which I have observed in my self is this While I at any time in any measure have been back-sliding and warping from the simplicity and purity of the Spirit unto Sensuality or Formality of any kind I have found those satisfactions which I have sought like Jonahs Gourd a worm sent into them by which they have been unexpectedly eaten and withered What would I infer from al this Thus much That We should set up the Spirit alone as the Principle of our Unity and so of our Prosperity and so much the rather in that the day of the Spirit is upon us when as the Father hath been glorified in the Son so the Father and the Son wil have their ful and final Glory in the Spirit How long is it since our Lord Jesus told us that the Father sought such Worshippers as should worship him in Spirit and Truth opposing the Spirit to the Letter Truth to the Shadows and figures of Divine Things The Psalmist reciting the story of the Patriarks and the Israelites in the Wilderness hath this passage Psal 105. ver 14 15. He reproved Kings for their sakes then we interpose saying but the sentence follows as a dreadful admonition upon occasion of that example fixt there from the mouth of God for all Powers to the end of the World Touch not my Prophets do mine anointed no harm The Spirit is this anointing This Anointing is that which makes Prophets as it doth Kings and Priests to God It hath been for this Anointing's sake for these Anointed Ones that the Lord hath reproved Princes in the midst of us and gone before us through this Wilderness Es 4.5 It is spoken of the last daies God will create upon the Assemblies of Mount Sion a Cloud by day and a shining fire by night for upon all the Glory shal be a Defence Would you know what this Glory is that thus shal be a Defence upon al the Assemblies in the times of the Gospel St. Peter tels us 1 Pet. 4.14 The Spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you You to whom God hath given Spiritual Senses and in whom he keeps those hitherto exercised and awake see the glory which rests upon us which is our Pillar of a cloud by day and our shining flame of fire by night the Holy Spirit This hath been this alone is our Guide our Defence our Resting place our Glory is the midst of all the Nations Say not how shal we discern this Spirit As a Cloud by day and a Fire by night so will the Lord make him evident to the seeing Eye and to every one that waits for him To conclude this Particular In the Bowels of Christ and by the Consolations of this Spirit as I am able I earnestly beseech all that cal upon the Name of the Lord Jesus in these Nations together with their