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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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1. Reason. 1Omnipotency can walk in the extreme and out most margin and most pendulous bank hanging over hell, and not fall; Christ can drive his Chariot over mountains and rocks and not break one pin or wedge of it, poor nothing to omnipotency is as good as Spear and Shield.
1. Reason. 1Omnipotencie can walke in the extreame and out most margin and most pendulous banke hanging over hell, and not fall; Christ can drive his Chariot over mountaines and rocks and not breake one pin or wedge of it, poore nothing to omnipotency is as good as Speare and Shield.
- 1Why God saveth not while the Church be between the sinking and the swimming.Why God saveth not while the Church be betweene the sinking and the swimming.
2. Reas. This declares the depth of the wisdom of Gods unsearchable dispensation, he suffereth malignants to ride over his people, that he may perfume the work of hell in the enemies, who are, as it were, skullions to purge the vessels of mercy and to humble them, and may instampe their Acts with supernatural events of faith and patience; malignants plough the Church, and sow blood in the three kingdoms, the father of Christ the good husband man comes in to break the clods and the fallow ground, and reap the crop of the quiet fruits of righteousness; and it is depth of wisdom to consider how God maketh use of mens sinful engagements having ⟨p. 26⟩chained men to his cause, and carries his own holy and clean work of reformation through many foul hands and dirty intentions: so when men thwart and cross Gods will of precept, they serve Gods will of providence; a passenger walks on the hatches of the ship toward the west, Sea, and tide and wind do carry both him, his motion and ship to the east, the wisdom of God the Pilot of his Church overpowereth mens intentions which are set on gain, honour, factions, their own by-ends, ease and pleasure.