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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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Sixthly, the Gospel which we profess is a Gospel of peace, we preach war between the flesh and the spirit, and war between the woman's Seed and the Serpent. But oh! should we preach war between the Saints? we have choicer golden chains to tie us together, Ephes. 4. 4. There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling. 5. One Lord, one faith, one Baptism. 6. One God, and Father of all. Have we need of Prelates and a high Commission Court, and pursuivants sent out to hunt us for praying together, that they may reconcile us and unite us together, as we were all one within these few years?
Sixtly, the Gospel which wee professe is a Gospel of peace, wee preach warre betweene the flesh and the spirit, and warre betweene the womans Seed and the Serpent. But oh! should wee preach warre betweene the Saints? wee have choyser golden chaines to tie us together, Ephes. 4. 4. There is one body, and one spirit, even as yee are called in one hope of your calling. 5. One Lord, one faith, one Baptisme. 6. One God, and Father of all. Have wee need of Prelats and a high Commission Court, and pursevants sent out to hunt us for praying together, that they may reconcile us and unite us together, as wee were all one within these few yeares?
Seventhly, the more grace and mercy we have from God our Father, and from our Lord Jesus, the more peace amongst our selves, and the more grace the more compassion toward the weakness of Brethren. Christ is an uniting and a congregating Saviour, his blood and his spirit soweth and needleth together the hearts of the lamb and the Leopard, of the Calf and of the young Lion, Isaiah 11. 6.
Seventhly, the more grace and mercy wee have from God our Father, and from our Lord Iesus, the more peace amongst our selves, and the more grace the more compassion toward the weaknesse of Brethren. Christ is an uniting and a congregating Saviour, his blood and his spirit soweth and needleth together the hearts of the lambe and the Leopard, of the Calfe and of the young Lion, Esay 11. 6.