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…

Name: A sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church…
Author: Samuel Rutherford

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.

Samuel Rutherford 1600?–1661London: printed by R.C. for Andrew Crook, 1645

[6], 62 [i.e. 66] p. · 30k words · Wing R2393 · ESTC R200125

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If we look spiritually now upon Gods dealing to these kingdoms,¹ the sword hath a charge from God to come against these lands, Ezek. 21. 14. Therefore, Son of man, prophecy and smite thine hands together, and let the Sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain, it is the sword of the great men that are slain, ²which entereth into their privy Chambers: when God giveth the sword a commission to destroy, it cannot rest, Jeremiah Chap. 47. Vers. 6. O thou sword of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thy self into thy scabbard, rest and be still. 7. How can it be quiet seeing the Lord hath given it a charge against. Askelon and the Sea shore? there hath be appointed it: it is then a commanded and a sent sword that now rageth in these kingdoms. 2. Not only is the Sword and the pestilence sent of God by special commission, Jer. 24. 10. but it is his sword, it is not the sword of Papists and malignants, but the sword of the Lord, Jer. 47. 6. The Lord saith, Ezek. 14. 21. that the Sword, famine, noisome beasts and pestilence are his four sore judgements: we may go thorough these soldiers, we have the Lords pass-port, Isaiah 43. 2. for the sword is our Fathers sword. The Seas we are in, are our Fathers Seas, and so cannot drown us. 3. Omnipotency taketh this as peculiar to himself, he only can create peace, Psal. 46. 9. He maketh wars to cease from the ends of the earth, Isaiah 45. 6. I am the Lord, and there is none else. 7. I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create evil: then by what title he is God and Creator by the same,³ he maketh peace, Psal. 65. 7. He stilleth the noise of the Seas, the noise of their waves and the tumult of people; these be two troublesome creatures, the raging Sea, and the people up in wars; The will of furious men is an unruly and wild thing, there is a strong tide and mighty and lofty winds stirring in mens hearts, when they are in a fever and heat of war; it is Omnipotency's proper work to calm the winds, and put the wheels to a

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