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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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23. But as they sailed be fell a sleep, 1and there came down a storm of wind, Matth. 8. 24. a great tempest. I keep the order laid down before; this is not an ordinary storm. But is not the most skilled Seaman in heaven and earth here? dare the wind blow so proudly on his face, who is white and ruddy, and the chief amongst ten thousand worlds? do not the Seas know their Creator? and dare they wet his face, who made the Sea and the dry Land? Yet from the greatness of this storm (as was cleared before from the Text) we observe that Christ his Ship, his Church, and passengers have in their sailing more then ordinary storms. Lamen. 1. 12. Is it nothing to all you that pass by? (alas! Christ in his sufferings hath too many passers by) Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, 2wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me, in the day of his fierce anger! Chap. 2. 13. the Prophet cannot find a comparison to equal the Churches sorrow. Thy breach is great like the Sea, who can beale thee? The Sea is a vast body, and a great Sea of troubles ⟨p. 9⟩was like to drown the Church, Chap. 1. 9. Jerusalem came down wonderfully [Greek or Hebrew] is admirably, 3the word is from a root which signifieth to be separated, and hidden as things above sense or reason, as Gen. 18. 14. Is there any thing hid, or too hard or admirable to the Lord, which he cannot do? there is some great and admirable thing in the Sword of the Lord, upon the three kingdoms above all that Irish Rebels, or bloody malignants can do; the curse and vengeance in afflictions from men comes from a higher hand then men, men kill with the Sword, but they cannot stamp upon killing with the Sword judgement and vengeance, this only God doth. Lam. 2. 2. The Lord hath swallowed up all the inhabitants of Jacob, and hath not pitied. 4. He hath bent his bow like an enemy; O terrible, any enemy but God, is tolerable; the Lord stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that was pleasant to the eye, (the sucking children are pleasant to the eye) in the Tabernacle of the daughter of Zion be poured out his fury like fire, v. 20. Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this: shall the women eat their fruit and children of a span long? shall the Priests and the Prophets be slain in the Sanctuary?