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A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey…A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey…
A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemn and public humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughs. Published by order of the said House.A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemne and publique humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughes. Published by order of the said House.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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We read of that Grace, (Hope) sometimes it is called a Helmet, sometimes an Anchor; if you be at land, and meet with enemies, Hope is your Helmet; if at sea, and meet with storms, Hope is your Anchor. Like Mertylus his shield, which after the use he had of it in the field, having it with him at sea, and suffering ship-wrack, it served him for a boat to waft him to shore. Compare Psal. 57. with Psal. 108. you shall find Davids condition various, but his spirit the same. In the 57. he is fled for his life from the rage of Saul, and hid in a cave; in 108. he is triumphing, God hath spoken in his holiness, I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, I will mete out the valley of Succoth. Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, Ephraim is the strength of my head, Moab is my washpot, &c. yet a great part of these Psalms is in the very same words, My heart is fixed, my heart is fixed, to God will I sing and give praise, &c. from the 7. ver. in the 57. to the end; and in Psal. 108. from the 1. to the 7. ver. It is a great part of the glory of God to be unchangeable, and yet to operate in all changes. It is a great excellency of the image of God in the hearts of the Saints, that in the variety of ⟨p. 10⟩conditions it still abides the same, to know how to be abased, and how to abound.
We reade of that Grace, (Hope) sometimes it is called a Helmet, sometimes an Anchor; if you be at land, and meet with enemies, Hope is your Helmet; if at sea, and meet with stormes, Hope is your Anchor. Like Mertylus his shield, which after the use he had of it in the field, having it with him at sea, and suffering ship-wrack, it served him for a boat to waffe him to shore. Compare Psal. 57. with Psal. 108. you shall find Davids condition various, but his spirit the same. In the 57. he is fled for his life from the rage of Saul, and hid in a cave; in 108. he is triumphing, God hath spoken in his holinesse, I will rejoyce, I will divide Shechem, I will mete out the valley of Succoth. Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine, Ephraim is the strength of my head, Moab is my washpot, &c. yet a great part of these Psalmes is in the very same words, My heart is fixed, my heart is fixed, to God will I sing and give praise, &c. from the 7. ver. in the 57. to the end; and in