A92145:57
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
It may also be thus cleared, the Iron wedges of Noah's Ark separated ⟨p. 20⟩from the Ark, and cast into the waters should sink to the bottom, but being fastened in the Ark they fleet above the water: the manhood separated from the Godhead should sink under the wrath that Christ did sustain, but being wedged and united to the Godhead, in a personal union, could not but ride out against all the storms: O blessed be our sure Ark. Now though suffering could not touch the Godhead passively, yet could the Godhead actively contribute to the strengthening of the Manhood for suffering.
It may also bee thus cleared, the Iron wedges of Noahs Arke separated ⟨p. 20⟩from the Arke, and cast into the waters should sinke to the bottome, but being fastned in the Arke they fleet above the water: the manhead separated from the Godhead should sinke under the wrath that Christ did sustaine, but being wedged and united to the Godhead, in a personall union, could not but ride out against all the stormes: O blessed bee our sure Ark. Now though suffering could not touch the Godhead passively, yet could the Godhead actively contribute to the strengthning of the Manhood for suffering.
Hence we are to conceive if Christ the Redeemer,1 Christ personal, was a Standard-bearer that could not faint under all his sufferings and infirmities, Christ mystical is more then men, I mean the Church of Christ must have also strength against all the persecutions of men; there is a bone in the head of the Church, that is, strength in Christ that cannot be broken, malignants shall fight against Mount Zion, but shall not prevail, there was never any victory that the seed of the Serpent or Satan could obtain against Christ, but the bruising of his heel, that is a poor victory, a wound in the heel, or a bleeding heel is far from the heart; Malignants are but drawing blood of Christs heel, in these bloody wars. But they do but thresh the waters, Christ hath endured more then the wrath of the King of Britain, and believe it, he shall be victorious and shall prevail.