The Way of God with His People, Title page – License
THE WAY of GOD WITH HIS PEOPLE IN THESE NATIONS.
Opened in A Thanksgiving Sermon, preached on the 5th of November, 1656. before the Right Honorable, the High Court of Parliament.
By PETER STERRY.
LONDON: Printed by Peter Cole, Book-seller and Printer; and are to be sold at his Shop at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange. 1657.
FOR THE RIGHT HONORABLE, The High Court of Parliament; The Epistle Dedicatory.
Right Honorable,
I Have obeyed your Commands in Printing this Sermon, as I did in Preaching it. O that in both, the Sermon may prove an Alablaster Box, and the Name of Jesus Christ, as an Oyntment powred forth from it! We are in a Wilderness. Clouds of Darkness, and Doubt; Fires of Danger, Dissention, and Wrath, are in the midst of us, round about us. That the Presence of, Christ may be the Pillar of a Cloud, and of Fire, to go before you as a Light in Difficulties, to stand behind you as a Defence in Dangers, is the continual Prayer of
Your Honors most humble Servant in Christ, PETER STERRY.
Fryday, the 7th of Novemb. 1656.
ORdered by the Parliament, That Mr. Sterry have the Thanks of this House for his great Pains taken in his Sermon preached before this House, at Margarets, Westminster, on the 5 th of Novemb. Being a day set apart for Publick Thanksgiving; and that he be desired to Print his Sermon; and that he have the like Priviledg in Printing, as hath been formerly allowed to others in like Cases.
And that Col. John Jones do give him the Thanks of this House accordingly.
Henry Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament.