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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
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.
He was fast asleep.
He was fast asleepe.
This is the saddest circumstance in their suffering. What is death and the drowning of them all, so they have Christ ⟨p. 27⟩with them?1 But Oh! Christ to their sense is as good as absent; for he is fast asleep; and as they complain, he careth not for them; Christ walking and working for a soul in the saddest affliction of the world is a blessed visitation. To be in heaven, if Christ sleep and be not with you, is a hell, and to be in hell and want his presence, is two hells; to be sick, and the only Physician Christ will not come at me, is two hells. Gods watching presence, first, bringeth the courage of faith: To be in the midst of devils, the believer having God with him walketh without fear; even cold death that king of terrors walking with him at his right side, he hath a pass-port that will take him safe through the grave, as these places prove, Psal. 16. 8, 9, 10. Psal. 23. 4. Psal. 46. 2. 3. Mic. 7. 8. Secondly, God is not present with his own in trouble as the picture of a friend, who hath much love in his heart while he stands at your bed side seeing you go to a great hell through a little hell of sickness and pain, and cannot take off you one grain weight of sorrow and pain. But God is in a far other manner present, Psal. 91. 15. I will be with him in trouble, but this is not all, I will deliver him, Isaiah 43. 2. when thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the Rivers, they shall not overflow thee, when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burnt; nor is Christ in trouble like our Summer-friends who in a great drought dry up.