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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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Luke 8. 25.1 And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this? for he commandeth even the winds and waters, and they obey him.
Luke 8. 25.1 And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this? for hee commandeth even the winds and waters, and they obey him.
- 1Part VI.
This is all the fruit we read this miracle produced in the Seamen, they fall a wondering, being astonished to see a man command Sea and winds. First, the miracles of Christ and all the works of God are so far inferior to his word, that they can teach us nothing of the Trinity, 1nor of two natures in the one person and of our mediator Jesus Christ. Secondly, O how little of God do we see, especially being void of his own light? even Job saith, though God be at our elbow, we know not it is he, Chap. 23. 8. Behold I go forward, and he is not there, and backward, but I cannot perceive him. But is this because God was neither behind Job, nor before him? no, God goeth round about us, every man may as it were, put forth his hand, and grope the Almighty, Act. 17. 27. therefore Job addeth Vers. 9. (he is) on the left hand where he doth work, but I cannot behold him, he hideth himself on the right hand that I cannot see him; we cannot trace the footsteps of his unsearchable ways, alas we but sport our selves to behold the superfice, the outside, and as it were, the brim of divine providence men or Angels cannot dive to the bottom of the ways of our Lord; Isaiah 55. he saith himself, Vers. 9. for as the heavens are higher then the earth, so are my ways higher then your ways, and my thoughts then your thoughts. Thirdly, we come but that near Christ, that we go at the farthest three or four steppes to him; some are convinced and wonder, they say this must be God, as