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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92145	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.	Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661.	1645 (1645)	Wing R2393; Thomason E289_11; ESTC R200125	61,133	73

Lord our redemption through Christ a treaty for everlasting peace the time of infancy and childhood slippeth over and wee know not the end of our creation youth-head and mans age like a proud meadow greene faire delightfull to day and to morrow hay casteth blossomes and flowers and with one little stride skippeth over our span-length of time and wee goe through the Exchange to buy frothy honour rotten pleasure and when the last houre is come wee scarce read our masters paper we barter one nothing-creature with another alas it is but a poore reckoning that a naturall man can make who can say no more at his death but I have eaten drunken sleeped waked dreamed and sinned for the space of sixtie or seventie yeares and that is all Time like a long swift sliding River runneth through the Citie from the creation when God first set the horologe a going to the day of Christs second comming this River slideth through our fingers wee eate drinke sleepe sport laugh buy sell speake breathe die in a moment every gaspe of ayre is a fluxe of our minuts time sliding into eternitie within a few generations there shall bee a Parliament of other faces a new generation of other men in the Cities Houses Assemblies wee are now in and wee a company of night-visions shall flie away and our places shall know us no more and though this should not bee the world is not eternall being a great body made up of corruptible peeces of little dying creatures standing upon nothing if God take the legges from them at length God shall remove the passes of the watch and time shall bee no more the wheeles of time shall bee at a stand What poore thoughts shall wee have of this poore fading ball of clay the earth when the wormes shall creepe in through face cheeks and eate our tongue and seise upon Liver and heart or imagine that our spirits once entred within the line of eternitie could but stay up beside the Moone and looke downe and behold us children sweating and running for our beloved shadowes of Lands Fields Flocks Castles Towers Crownes Scepters Gold Money hee should wonder that reason is so bleare-eyed as to hunt dreames and toyes Judge righteously give faire justice to Christ doe good while it is to day consider the afternoone of a declining Sunne within few houres wee are plunged in the bosome and wombe of eternitie and cannot returne backe againe Lord teach us to number our dayes 23. But as they sayled bee fell a sleepe and there came downe a storme of wind Matth. 8. 24. a great tempest I keepe the order laid downe before this is not an ordinary storme But is not the most skilled Seaman in heaven and earth here dare the wind blow so proudly on his face who is white and ruddy and the chiefe amongst ten thousand worlds do not the Seas know their Creator and dare they wet his face who made the Sea and the dry Land Yet from the greatnesse of this storme as was cleared before from the Text wee observe that Christ his Ship his Church and passengers have in their sayling more then ordinary stormes Lamen 1. 12. Is it nothing to all you that passe by alas Christ in his sufferings hath too many passers by Behold and see if there bee any sorrow like unto my sorrow wherewith the Lord hath afflicted mee in the day of his fierce anger Chap. 2. 13. the Prophet cannot find a comparison to equall the Churches sorrow Thy breach is great like the Sea who can beale thee The Sea is a vast body and a great Sea of troubles was like to drowne the Church Chap. 1. 9. Jerusalem came downe wonderfully {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is admirably the word is from a root which signifieth to bee separated and hidden as things above sense or reason as Gen. 18. 14. Is there any thing hid or too hard or admirable to the Lord which hee cannot doe there is some great and admirable thing in the Sword of the Lord upon the three kingdomes above all that Irish Rebells or bloodly malignants can doe the curse and vengeance in afflictions from men comes from a higher hand then men men kill with the Sword but they cannot stampe upon killing with the Sword judgement and vengeance this onely God doth Lam. 2. 2. The Lord hath swallowed up all the inhabitants of Jacob and hath not pitied 4. He hath bent his bow like an enemie O terrible any enemy but God is tolerable the Lord stood with his right hand as an adversarie and slew all that was pleasant to the eye the sucking children are pleasant to the eye in the Tabernacle of the daughter of Zion bee poured out his fury like fire v. 20. Behold O Lord and consider to whom thou hast done this shall the women eate their fruite and children of a span long shall the Priests and the Prophets bee slaine in the Sanctuary Psal. 44. 19. Thou hast sore broken us or bruised us as in the place of Dragons and covered us as with a vaile or covering or garment Psal. 32. 1. with the shadow of death Death is a cold sad and fearefull garment cast over the Church and that when shee is bruised to dust and pouder how sore and heavy a storme was upon poore Job Chap. 16. 13. His archers compasse mee round about Gods terrors shot not at the rovers that God should misse the marke hee cleaveth my reines asunder and doth not spare hee poureth out my Gall upon the ground 14. Hee breaketh me with breach upon breach and runneth on mee as a Giant What is safe in the living man when the reines that are as inward as the mans heart are cloven asunder and when Gall and Liver are taken out of the living man and powred upon the earth See how the Lord dealeth with his owne people Hos. 13. 8. I will meet them as a Beare bereaved of her Whelpes and will rent the cawle of their heart It cannot bee an ordinary paine when the webbe of fate that compasseth about the heart is torne asunder There is a sad and a blacke booke presented unto Ezekiel Chap. 3. 10. a roll of a booke written within and without page and margin lamentation and mourning and woe how doth the afflicted Church complaine Psal. 102. 3 My dayes are consumed as smoake when yesterdayes sad life is burnt to ashes what is it and my bones are burnt as an bearth 4. My heart is smitten and withered like grasse so that I forget to eate my bread 5. By reason of the voyce of my groaning my bones cleave to my skinne These and the like borrowed expressions hold forth that the storme of afflictions was terrible and loud as if it would cleave Mountaines and Rocks and there must bee such a pressure of paine here as if you would take a living mans bones and make fewell for fire and use them as we do Faggots and not that