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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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Thirdly, sense is strong as fancy, drowning and death was come over board, and therefore they complain of a changed and sleeping Christ; now old and grey haired judgements move us not, as the drowning of the old world, the destruction of Sodom with fire and brimstone, these are gone many hundred years, therefore they affect not us, and the day of judgement is far off, and where is the promise of his coming? say the scoffers, 2 Pet. 3. and so did the people, Ezek. 12. 27. Son of man behold they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophecieth of times ⟨p. 37⟩that are afar off. But when death is at thy right side, and sitteth upon the ball of thy cheek, that acteth and worketh on us. When the Sword is two hundred miles from us, we take no care of it; but if the enemy were coming in at the ports of the City, and we saw them burning houses, and killing husbands and children, and heard the crying of women and children; we should then be on the other extremity, and cry, Christ is changed and cares not for us; keep good and heavenly thoughts of Christ in the saddest times, Psal. 22. 2. O my God I cry by day and thou hearest not, in the night season I am not silent; What then? doth he fall a chiding with God? doth he say, Oh, God is changed, he careth not for us? no: yea the contrary he saith, Vers. 3. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel. 4. Our fathers trusted in thee and were delivered; say in the mouth of hell, I will believe, as Job 13. 15. Though the Lord should kill me, I will trust in him; faith liveth and breatheth in the grave, in the throat of hell. How sweet is it to hear, There is the grave of a buried believer; these be the ashes of a dead man, that went into the grave in faith and hope as Christ did, Psal. 16. 10. Beware of false imaginations of God in time of trouble. Fancy can spin out and forge a God weak of memory, who hath forgotten his promises, Isaiah 49. 14, 15. we cast behind us the promises in the day of trouble; yea which is fearful, often when we conceive we are praying, we are but chiding with God, and not far from blaspheming;