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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

quick when their wrath was kindled over us 3. Note Wind up and wrap up all your Mercies into the Person of Jesus Christ In him they are all Yea and Amen ● Cor. 1. 20. He is the Eternall One by whom and in whom our Blessings are made Eternall Mercies are Sweet when they are the Sure Mercies of Jesus Christ When our Salvations and our Joyes savour of the Lord Jesus they become the sweet Savour of an Everlasting Memorial upon our owne Spirits in the Nostrils of God the Father Without Him they vanish at the presence of every new Tryall as the Morning dew before the rising Sunne 4. Note Offer up all your Thanks to God by Jesus Christ Hee is the Chiefe Musician He alone can tune your songs and set them in order before the Lord to make them Spirituall Musicke Our blessed Saviour is the Altar that must sanctifie the Gold of our praises Thus begin and end your Praises with the Lord Jesus Make him the First and the Last Dish in your Feasts the Seasoning of all your Dishes Engrave upon your Hearts in all your Mirth set at the Head of all your Songs this Inscription or Title To the Chiefe Musician in Heavenly things To him that excelleth To Iesus Christ I have done with the First Particular in the Title of the Psalme the Dedication 2. Particular The Author He is described Two wayes 1. By his Name or Person David 2. By his Relation the Servant of the Lord 1. By his Name or Person David David was the Type of a Just Power in Foure Respects 1. David was sought of God to rule his People after his owne Heart 1 Sam. 13 14. Samuel tells Saul God hath sought him a man after his owne Heart and he hath commanded him to be Captaine over his People A Ruler must be sought out by a Divine Spirit Divine Providence or Both He must have a Command either Exprest or Imprest upon his Heart He must command out of Obedience not Ambition 2. David was the Sonne of Ishai 1 Sam. 16. 1. God saith to Samuel I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite I have provided me a King from among his Sons Jesse or Ishai for Both are one signifies Man in his Excellency in the true Being of a Man that is so farre as he hath any Reliques or Prints of that Image of God in which Man was first made 3. David had Iesus Christ for his Lord and Son Matt. 22. 45. Iesus puts this Riddle to the Jewes from the 110th Psalme If David call Him Lord how is He then his Son David had Christ for his Lord He raigned Obedientially as being subject to the Messiah Deuteron 34. 5. It is said of Moses that He died according to the word of the Lord The Hebrew hath it At the Mouth of the Lord The ●ewes say God tooke Moses's Soule from him with a Kisse So David raigned at the Mouth of the Lord Iesus The Kisses of Christ's mouth breath'd a Ruling Power and Skill into him David had Iesus Christ for his Son David was Christ's Predecossour in the same Line and His Type The End of David and his Kingdome was to Figure and to further the Comming of the Lord Iesus 4. David signifies Beloved He was Gods Favourite protected and blessed by Him By the Blessing of the Lord thorough many Dangers in the midst of many Difficulties he was setled in his Kingdome now when he sung this Song of Praise Thus David was the Type of a Iust Power Right Honourable and Noble Patriots You are that Iust Power of which David was a Type if you not Seeking b●●Sought by the Lord to Command rule this People not according to your owne Hearts but His owne Heart You are a Iust Power while you are Sons of Ishai Representatives of the People not after their Lusts and Humours but ●o farre as they retaine the True Being of Men having the Image of God stampt upon them in Righteousnesse and true Reason 〈…〉 are a Iust Power while you have Iesus Christ for your Lord and Sonne while you make the End of your Rule to be the Exaltation and Manifestation of the Lord Iesus to Serve Shadow forth Usher in Iesus Crrist Upon these Grounds you have been Beloved of the Lord eminently Favoured and Blest by Him By the Blessing of the Lord after many Dangers in the midst of many Difficulties you are Setled to a good degree in your Government now when you keep this Day of Praises But there is One thing more Remarkable in David and Applicable to your selves Honoured Senatours which I cannot let passe That is this David stands between Two Contrary Raignes the Raigne of Saul a Prince of Disobedience Witchcrafts Idolatries and the Raigne of Salomon a Prince of Righteousnesse Peace and Glory David was a Man of Blood all his time full of Warres and Troubles He was not suffered to build an House to the Lord because he had shed much Blood upon the face of the Earth before the Lord 1 Chron. 22. 8. Davids Raigne was a Type of the Kingdome of Christ in its Conflict of the Church in her Passage from the Land of Darknesse and Bondage under Anti-Christ to the Land of Rest David raigned fourty yeares from Saul to Salomon according to the yeares in which the Children of Israel were journeying through the Wildernesse according to the Dayes in which Eliah was travelling without foode to the Mount of God when he fled from the face of Iezabel 1 Kings 19. 8. according to the Dayes in which Iesus Christ was encountred and tempted of the Devil in the Wildernesse Right Honourable If we may give credit to Reverend Learned and Holy Men You are now upon the Entrance into those Times You have had the Honour to be made Instruments in the Hand of God to bring about the Beginnings of those Times of the Church to which Davids Kingdome was a Type and no more Iesus Christ is now comming forth with his Garments dyed Red in the Blood of his Enemies The Prophet Isaiah saw these Times when he cryed out Esai 63. v. 1. Who is this that commeth from Edom with Dyed Garments from Bozrah The Iewish Rabbins teach us that Edom in the old Testament points out Rome which is the Seate of the Whore The Prophet goeth on v. 2. Wherefore art thou red in thy Aparrell He answers concerning his Enemies v. 3. at the latter end Their Blood shall be sprinckled upon my Garments and I will staine all my Rayment This is the First Raign of Christ after the similitude of David that is in the Power of his Death This Power of our Saviours Death must have a Double Effect One to cover the Earth with His Slaine the other to crucisie the Earthly Part in his Saints I will here crave leave to insert one place of Scripture which seemes to suite my present Purpose It is Daniel 12. ver. 11. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away

Righteousnesse When a Poore Soul hath the Guilt of his Sins like the Serpents of that Magician the Devill crawling in his Bosome twisting about his Heart stinging him to Despair and Death then appeares the Righteousnesse of the Lord Iesus like Moses Serpent and devoures all the other Serpent● that not so much as any Reliques Print Stain or Mark of them is left When Poore England was like Israel Ezekiel 16. as a Babe newly sprung out of the Wombe lying upon the Earth in its Blood then had its Nakednesse been seen an shame discovered to all the Nations round about then ha● it perished in its Blood in the Infancy of its Designes if the Lord Iesus had not spread the lap of his Garment over it Rom. 8. 34. Who shall lay any thing to the Charge of Gods Elect It is God that Iustifieth Vers 35. VVho shall condemn It is Christ that died or rather that is risen again If it be God who will freely Iustifie a Land or Heart who shall Charge it If it be Jesus Christ who interposeth His Death to Justice for the Sins of any People if it be Jesus Christ who is Rising in any People what shall Condemn that People No Guilt shall prevaile against them This is our Second Strength in God our Justification 3. Strength Sanctification This is the Reformation which we concurre in Pretendedly as our Common End for which we have Covenanted by Profession For want of which we all Complain in Appearance I wish that I had more to say Experimentally of this Strength manifested in the midst of us There is a Twofold Sanctification or Reformation 1. Private of a Person 2. Publike of a People Each of these is also Twofold 1. Inward in Spirit and Power 2. Outward in Practise or Appearance Alas I fear that whatever there is of a True Reformation and Powerfull Sanctification among us lyes in a narrow Compasse in some little Corner of a very few Hearts I have read of an Idol-Image in the East which when it was broken sent forth from a Hollow Part of it a Vapour which spread a killing Plague all over Asia and Europe How is there a Catching and Killing Plague of Prophannesse and Atheisme Kindled and Burning fiercely from Soul to Soul upon Multitudes in this Island at this day as if the Images of Tyranny and Superstition being broken down had sent forth an evill Spirit of Abomination and Desolation to revenge its Ruine But the Devil when he is cast out will alwaies goe out with a Stinke and carry away Part of the house with him in a Violent Manner When Iesus Christ was coming to heal the Child in the Gospell tormented by the Devill then did the Devill rage in the childe after a more extraordinary manner he threw him down and tore him Yet was this Tearing Extremity but the Unclean Spirits way of Taking his l●ave But perhaps we have made no better Progresse in the Work of Sanctification because we have not enough considered where the strength of our Sanctification lyes which is Jesus Christ If the Waters of Corruption see the Lord Jesus in thy Spirit they will flee backward and bee dried up Otherwise they will return upon thee like the waters of the Red Sea upon Pharaoh and utterly overwhelm thee If the Building of your Sanctification and Reformation be raised upon this Rock it will stand If it have any other Foundation the Fall of it will be great The Scriptures Ordinances Performances are as the Pool of Bethesda the Healing Pool At the Brim of these we are to lay our Sick our Selves and wait But the Angel of the Covenant the Lord Jesus must come down into them to give them their Healing Vertue Without Him they are as Abana and Parphar rivers of Damascus 2 Kings 5. 11. Whoever attempteth like the seven Sons of Sceva to Exorcise and cast out the evill Spirit of Prophannesse Uncleannesse Atheisme by the Name of Christ without his Presence by the Letter of Ordinances without the Spirit he will m●et with that which befell them Acts 19. 16. The Evill Spirit will flee in his Face beat him send him away Naked and Wounded Naked of that clothing in which he Gloried Wounded in that Strength those Comforts on which he trusted Elisha struck the Waters of Iordan with the mantle of Eliah and cried out Where is the Lord God of Elijah 2 Kings 2. 14. So do yee Strike the Waters of Wickednesse with the Mantle of Christ the Ordinances of Magistracy and Ministery But as yee strike cry Where is the Spirit of Iesus Christ This is the Third Strength which we have in Christ the Strength of justification That which comes next is 4. Strength Redemption The Lord Jesus hath abounded towards us in this kinde Hee hath redeemed the Persons of some of us from four great Evils from which we could never have escaped 1. From the wrath of his Father which was as a Heaven of molten and burning Brasse over our Heads 2. From the Curse which made the Earth as Iron to us Barren beat out into Chaines binding us down perpetually eating into our Flesh and it self 3. The Devill who had caught us in his Snares who rode upon our Immortall and Naturall Spirits as God rideth upon the Cherubins and the Winds 4. Hell which opened it self in an endlesse Labyrinth of Horrors a Bottomlesse Gulf of Torments to devour us 5. Potent lusts each of which was as the fire that never goes out and Pressing cares which were as the Worm that never dyes Let the Redeemed of the Lord Iesus sing Hee hath delivered them from all these with a Highhand and an Out-stretched-Arm The Lord Iesus hath redeemed the People of England in Six Troubles and he is saving them out of the Seventh But the Holy Ghost hath saved me a Labour and suited our Experience in Publike Deliverances with most Proper Expressions by the Pen of David in this Psalme The Publike Redemption of this Land is represented in 3. Heads 1. Head The Distresse 2. Head The Deliverer 3. Head The Deliverance 1. Head The Distresse You have this in the Prophets words vers. 4. The sorrows of death compassed me the Floods of ungodly men made mee afraid Vers 5. The Sorrows of Hell or the Bands of the Grave compassed me about the Snares of death prevented me Can any Extremitie goe beyond that to which Ours have arrived How often have the Spirits of this Nation wrought and laboured under the very Pangs of Death and Ruine Were we not numbred among the Dead bound about with Grave-clothes like a Corse laid out for Buriall a little before the Thundering of the Almighty from His Place in these late Times What Floods or Inundations rather of ungodly men very lately covered the Face of the whole Land and of our neighbour Nations Came they not up upon the Country the City even within those Walls where you sit Honoured Senatours like Elijahs Cloud that grew from the Bignesse of