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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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3. What course take the Disciples in their danger? first, they awake Christ with their prayer; secondly, they double their words, Luke saith, [Greek or Hebrew], master, m•ster, tutor, such as are heads of Colleges, or take care of Orphans, are so called. Christ tutors storms, and winds, and Church and Court, and all: Matthew saith [Greek or Hebrew], Lord, which signifieth Christs dominion: Mark [Greek or Hebrew], Master, for (if he can, and what can he not?) he'll help his Disciples, so they put an argument of help home upon Christ from his office. Thirdly, they complain, Carest thou not for us? What a master art thou, who sleepest when we are in danger to be drowned? so dream we Christ careth not for us, if he deliver not presently. Fourthly, they lay the danger before him, we perish.
3. What course take the Disciples in their danger? first, they awake Christ with their prayer; secondly, they double their words, Luke saith, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, master, m•ster, tutor, such as are heads of Colledges, or take care of Orphanes, are so called. Christ tutors stormes, and winds, and Church and Court, and all: Matthew saith 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Lord, which signifieth Christs dominion: Marke 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Master, for (if he can, and what can hee not?) hee'l helpe his Disciples, so they put an argument of helpe home upon Christ from his office. Thirdly, they complaine, Carest thou not for us? What a master art thou, who sleepest when wee are in danger to be drowned? so dreame we Christ careth not for us, if he deliver not presently. Fourthly, they lay the danger before him, wee perish.
4. We have Christs present helping of them, Matthew keepeth the natural method; Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? he first rebuketh the Disciples unbelief, before he rebuke the Sea and winds. Secondly, he spake angry words to the Sea and winds, or laid a strict charge on the Sea and winds, as the word is,