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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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who stretcheth out the heaven as a curtain. What a power must it be, to spread over all nations of the earth, the elements and creatures in Sea and land, such a large white molten web of Crystal glass, that hath been spread over our head, from the east end of the world to the west, and north and south, and there is not an hole in the web, these five thousand years. (2) The Sea is a fluid huge great body, where can there be a bottle to contain it? 2. When it swelleth and rageth with mighty winds, how is it kept from drowning the world? God doth remedy these two. 1. Job 38. 8. Who shut up the Sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? Vers. 11. The Lord said, Hitherto shalt thou come, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed. God hath put an Iron door upon the Sea, and put it under an Act and Law of omnipotency, that it shall not devour and overwhelm the earth, Jer. 5. 22. he hath placed the sand for the bound of the Sea, by a perpetual decree. For the second, when, Psal. 107. 27. the Sea is all in fire, and the passengers in a mighty storm reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits end, 29. he maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Isaiah 50. 2. Behold, at my rebuke, I dry up the Sea. Psal. 65. 7. he stilleth the noise of the Seas. (3.) The Seas, as all the rest of the creatures, are by the first sin of man, broken out of the covenant of peace, between us and them in the state of innocency, and war is denounced between us and them, the fire should burn us, the water hath Law to drown us, the air to suffocate us, the earth a Commission to swallow us up quick, if Christ had not made a cessation of arms, and if the Gospel were not a concluded treaty of peace, and if the Lord should not rebuke the fury of the creature, (for some sparks of Gods wrath yet resideth in the creature) they have yet an inclination to revenge the quarrel of the treason that we committed against their King, and we do receive the creatures as fugitive soldiers from Gods Camp of justice, and do employ them in war against God, as the ⟨p. 58⟩Glutton and Drunkard employeth meat and drink against God, the vain persons their vain apparel, their patched faces, bare breasts and shoulders, as an exchange to sell the body to lust;