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A sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church…A sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church…
A sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, Wednesday the 25. day of June, 1645. Being the day appointed for a solemn and public humiliation. / By Samuel Rutherfurd Professor of Divinity at St. Andrews.A sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, Wednesday the 25. day of Iune, 1645. Being the day appointed for a solemne and publique humiliation. / By Samuel Rutherfurd Professor of Divinitie at St. Andrews.
London: printed by R.C. for Andrew Crook, 1645
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The ground of their doubting and unbelief is excessive and immoderate fear, not simply fear, therefore Mark saith, [Greek or Hebrew], why are you so fearful? he saith not; why fear you? hence the Text will lead us to inquire in the bad properties of this fear; which that we may do, a little of the affections in general; 2. of this bad fear condemned by our Lord in these following propositions.
The ground of their doubting and unbeleefe is excessive and immoderate feare, not simply feare, therefore Marke saith, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, why are you so fearefull? hee saith not; why feare you? hence the Text will leade us to inquire in the bad properties of this feare; which that wee may doe, a little of the affections in generall; 2. of this bad feare condemned by our Lord in these following propositions.
1 Proposition. 1Grace removeth not affections; Christ condemneth not their fear, but only their fearfulness [Greek or Hebrew] so high bended. Grace maketh not men Stoics, nor does it root out Nature: Nature of it self, as it cometh out of the workhouse of the Creator, is an innocent thing. Whatever decrees the high former, and Potter have concerning all things, in the exercise of his absolute, but most pure and holy Sovereignty over lame Vessels, yet all that he made is good; he is the author of no sinfulness in the Creature. But he doth not extirpate the nature, and harmless being of natural affections: A Chirurgeon taketh not away life and sense, but only rottenness and corrupt humours, that are enemies to life and sense. Grace embroidereth sinless nature, but does not turn it out at doors: Give your lust to Christ who maketh all things new; and he shall restore it again to you in renewed love: Put your fainting in his hand, and he'll make it holy fear: Christs furnace melteth but out the refuse and dross of our affections. What fire was in Peter a Fisher is but made holy zeal in Peter the Apostle; no man is the worse that he come through the new Physicians hands; he maketh brass Gold: I should wish no better, but that Christ would barter an old heart with a new; for Christ has skill to over-gold nature with Grace. Grace turned not Job in a lump of iron, that he could not weep or sorrow; for it was not destructive of Grace which he saith,