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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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Touching the three particulars in the first part, a word first of the place, this was not properly a Sea, but a lake, not Lacus Gadarenus, of which Strabo saith beasts could not go through it, without the loss of hair and hoofs, the waters being so pestilent, but it was the lake of Genesareth, through which Christ and his Disciples sailed to the Gadarenes, called by a Hebraism the Sea of Tiberias.
Touching the three particulars in the first part, a word first of the place, this was not properly a Sea, but a lake, not Lacus Gadarenus, of which Strabo saith beasts could not goe through it, without the losse of haire and hoofes, the waters being so pestilent, but it was the lake of Genesareth, through which Christ and his Disciples sayled to the Gadarens, called by a Hebraisme the Sea of Tiberias.
Secondly Christs convoy in this Sea-journey were his Disciples. Seldom was Christ his alone, only when he went to a mountain to pray, as Joh. 6. 15. and in the garden when his Disciples would not watch with him one hour. But ordinarily his Disciples, and others were witnesses of his doctrine and miracles. First, because the Disciples were to be eye-witnesses of him, to preach by sense as well as by faith, 1 John 1. 1. 2 Pet. 1. 18. And this voice which came from heaven we heard (saith Peter) when we were with him in the holy mount. 1Sense of Christs sweetness in Preachers is not so good as faith, but it is more excellent then hearsay; there is a sense of faith in such as have been in the Mount with Christ; I believed, therefore I spake, 2 Cor. 4. 13. Sense of Christ is an excellent Preacher of Christ, Now believe we (say the Samaritans,