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Title:  The clouds in which Christ comes opened in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons, assembled in Parliament, upon the solemne day of their monthly fast, Octob. 27, 1647 / by Peter Sterry ...
Author: Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.
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If these Spirits were Angels, they would in this place justifie and reward the Papists in their prayers to those Flaming Ministers. God is a Spirit, but He is One. These then are some Middle-thing, not by Ne∣gation, that cannot be; but by Participation.Seven is the Perfect number of the Creature com∣prehending its Labour and its Rest; its Six Dayes, and its Sabbath. Seven times Seven is the Great Jubi∣le, the Joy of All Things, in which they are Free, and Return to their First State.God then As He varies himselfe into all the Di∣stinct Formes of the Creature, as he carries them on thorow their Severall Changes, till he carry them up to His own Vnchangeable Rest: So He is a Seven-fold Spirit. And this is the Spirituall Person of our Lord Jesus; Pan's Pipe composed of seven reeds; Seven being known by learned men for the Marriage-number.Revel. 5.6. A Lamb stands with seven hornes, and seven eyes, which are The Seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. This is that Great Spirit our Lord Jesus, who in the form of a Seven-fold Spirit like a River with seven heads, lets forth the God-head and the Creation, one into another.The Union of all Times and Things in One Person.3. Descrip. This is the first part of the fifth verse. This Vnion is set forth by a Three-fold Expression: 1. The Appearance of all things in Christ.2. The Presence of Christ in all.3. The Power of Christ over all.0