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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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O thou afflicted and tossed with tempests, behold I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with Sapphires. Christ can sail with contrary winds, yea the harbour is near; Behold I come quickly, (saith the Lord); in the greatest storm that ever was, the Church can see the shore and dry land, Mic. 7. 9. and faith in war seeth peace, and in shipwreck is assured of the land, and in saddest times, when God is farthest off, the children of God feel the smell of the flowers of the higher garden ⟨p. 18⟩Romans 5. 3. We rejoice, or we leap for joy, in tribulation.
O thou afflicted and tossed with tempests, behold I will lay thy stones with faire colours, and lay thy foundations with Saphires. Christ can saile with contrary winds, yea the harbour is neare; Behold I come quickly, (saith the Lord); in the greatest storme that ever was, the Church can see the shoare and dry land, Mic. 7. 9. and faith in warre seeth peace, and in shipwrack is assured of the land, and in saddest times, when God is farthest off, the children of God feele the smell of the flowers of the higher garden ⟨p. 18⟩Romans 5. 3. Wee rejoyce, or wee leape for joy, in tribulation.
[And he was fast asleep.] We are here to consider farther of the condition that they were it;1 it is a storm, but Christ sleepeth. First, a word of Christs sleeping. Secondly, of his sleeping at this time. If we compare the Text with it self we shall find, he was sleeping, who can neither slumber nor sleep, and that he is waking while he is sleeping, for he who is the mighty God, the Prince of peace, and rebuked the Sea and the winds, and there was a calm, does not sleep. How then? can God sleep? he that is in one person God-man can sleep. First, because in this rare piece of our redemption, Christ-God took all our infirmities on him, except sin, as he took our nature, so he took our condition and place, to express the depth of the love of God to mankind; the lower and the baser our glorious redeemer was, it hath the greater impression of love.