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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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2 Propos. Grace but removeth the scum, and exorbitances ⟨p. 43⟩of our affections: As first, Grace is a regular thing, and moves as the Stars do, in a motion, contrary to the motion of the whole World; it moveth not as nature doth, to seek its own being and life, but with subordination to God. Be angry, but sin not, holdeth in all; Fear, but sin not; Love the Creature, but sin not; Trust holy men, but sin not; Sorrow at calamities, but sin not. Grace is a straight line that measureth both it self, and all crooked lines. And therefore the Grace of God, the Gospel is a teaching guide, Tit. 2. 11. The grace of God, 12. teacheth us to deny ungodliness.
2 Propos. Grace but removeth the scumme, and exorbitances ⟨p. 43⟩of our affections: As first, Grace is a regular thing, and moves as the Starres doe, in a motion, contrary to the motion of the whole World; it moveth not as nature doth, to seeke its own being and life, but with subordination to God. Bee angry, but sinne not, holdeth in all; Feare, but sinne not; Love the Creature, but sinne not; Trust holy men, but sinne not; Sorrow at calamities, but sinne not. Grace is a straight line that measureth both it selfe, and all crooked lines. And therefore the Grace of God, the Gospel is a teaching guide, Tit. 2. 11. The grace of God, 12. teacheth us to deny ungodlinesse.
Secondly, grace is an excellent screen between the soul and the burning heat of affections, it is a strong bank to keep off over-swelling tides of lusts in the soul; when affections start up without leave of the grace of God, then a man according to Gods heart David will but utterly destroy Nabal and all he hath, the Disciples, because they cannot have a nights lodging, will do no less then burn Cities and Townes, & have Samaria destroyed as Sodom, as if Christ were come in the world to raise fire and sword against men, women and sucking infants, but when affections look toward the creatures, the grace of God sets them on to move on leisurely and upon slow wheels, and loppeth off from our affections all the wanton and luxuriant branches, that is a sweet fruit of the grace of God,