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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

love nor respect to us though wee have forsaken all and followed him Secondly apprehension putteth a bastard glowme upon Christ and causeth us to take a false measure of Christ Fancy hath strong operations especially when it commeth in the roome and place of faith What could they imagine now but that the Sea will drowne Christ hee had said to them hee must bee delivered to the hands of sinners and bee crucified or then hee could walke upon the Sea and escape death and would let them goe to the mercie of the raging Seas and perish in the waters now this was a belying of the promises of God Christ had both decreed and said that they behooved to bee his witnesses and to carry his name to the Gentiles and carry the chariot of the Gospel thorough all the world and be delivered up to Synagogues and councels and bee beaten and scourged and hated of all men for his names sake now all these are dreams they must bee drowned in the waters through no other cause but the negligence and cold affection that their master Christ beareth to them though they had preferred him and his service to all the world Wee are beasts under great temptations and phantasie is all the wit that leadeth beasts so the Prophet saith of himselfe Psal. 72. 22. so foolish was I and ignorant I was a beast before thee and why a beast hee had said in his heart Vers 11. how doth God know that was a strong dreame hee that teacheth man knowledge shall bee not know Psal. 94. 10. and Vers 13. Verely I have cleansed my heart in vaine {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is an emptie thing and our word smoake or reeke seemeth to come from it then said the Prophets imagination it is as empty a thing as smoake to serve God Thirdly sense is strong as fancy drowning and death was come over board and therefore they complaine of a changed and sleeping Christ now old and gray haired judgements move us not as the drowning of the old world the destruction of Sodom with fire and brimstone these are gone many hundreth yeares therefore they affect not us and the day of judgement is farre off and where is the promise of his comming say the scoffers 2 Pet. 3. and so did the people Ezek. 12. 27. Sonne of man behold they of the house of Israel say The vision that hee seeth is for many dayes to come and hee prophecieth of times that are afarre 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 hundreth miles from us wee take no care of it but if the enemy were comming in at the ports of the Citie and wee saw them burning houses and killing husbands and children and heard the crying of women and children wee should then bee on the other extremitie and cry Christ is changed and cares not for us keepe 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 hee fall a chiding with God doth hee say Oh God is changed hee careth not for us no yea the contrary hee 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 beleeve as Job 13. 15. Though the Lord should kill mee I will trust in him faith liveth and breatheth in the grave in the throat of hell How sweet is it to heare There is the grave of a buried beleever these bee 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 weake of memory who hath forgotten his promises Esay 49. 14 15. wee cast behind us the promises in the day of trouble yea which is fearefull often when wee conceive wee are praying wee are but chiding with God and not farre from blaspheming grace in the day of trouble layeth silence on the thoughts wee have need of an high Priest to wash our sacrifices and when we have prayed there is so much sinne in our prayers that Christ must pray them over againe as it were for hee maketh prayers and requests for us Heb. 8. 25. They awoke him saying Master master Prayer awaketh a seeming sleeping God and puts him to it wee cannot take a better course in trouble then to runne to Christ by prayer Psal. 130. 1. Out of the deeps have I cryed unto thee Psal. 18. 6. In my distresse I called upon the Lord that is a sweet story Psal. 34. 6. This poore man cryed unto the Lord and the Lord heard and saved him out of all his troubles David used this weapon of prayer against his owne sonne Absolom Psal. 3. Faith is not partiall prayer is not selfie David prayed and prophesied his sonnes destruction 7. Arise O Lord save mee and hee answers himselfe Thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly A praying Army must be a victorious Army If this storme had not risen they should not have prayed alas wee put Christ often in the reere or wee keepe Christ to a reserve or a recrute when we have tryed Physitians for twelve yeares and spent all then wee come to Christ when wee can doe no better There is much deceit in bed-prayers for the principium motus the first spring is extrinsecall it comes from the rod on us it is true naturall consciences deaded and benummed with rubbing doe gather warme blood and are stirred up to devotion and fasting and praying in the spirit and the spirit of prayer may bee wakened by judgement but judgement is not the cause of praying in the godly but the occasion Hee that raiseth up a sleeping man is not the cause of his motion and walking the cause was in him when hee was fast asleepe his life and the Locomotive power is the cause of walking and this is not put in the sleeping man by him who raiseth him when the hypocrite and ungodly man fasteth and prayeth the hand of an angry God is both occasion and cause of his praying wee would try what moveth us to fasting and praying First whether sinne or afflictions this is a good signe if we can pray with as great intention of spirit to bee delivered from the dominion of sinne as for the pardon of the guilt we may be afraid that God heare us when wee pray for deliverance from the dominion of Idol-sinnes experience teacheth this But wee are never afraid to bee heard but afraid with the feare of unbeleefe for the most part that wee bee not heard when wee pray for pardon and deliverance from the guilt of sinne the reason is men may hate the guilt of sinne and yet love the sinne

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

people with a stretched out arme Moses his word of deliverance and Gods decree of bringing out the people is upon the extreame banke and margin of perishing Israel hath an hoast of cruell enemies behind them and the raging Sea before them and mountaines on every side here bee many deaths in a circle round about the Church this is like to God sleeping and the wheeles of providence at a stand there is no place for helpe from a creature except immediate omnipotency break a gap in the circle and divide the red Sea the Church of God is a field of dry and dead bones so as it is said Ezek. 37. 2. Behold the bones were {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} very or exceeding dry and they say Vers 11. our hope is losed and wee are cut off yet wee know God made his owne word good Vers 12. Behold O my people I will open your graves and bring you to the land of Israel Deut. 32. 36. The Lord shall judge his people and repent himselfe for his servants But when shall that be Omnipotency is good at a dead lift when hee seeth their strength is gone Heb. that their hand is gone and there is none shut up and left when the Saints have neither hands nor feet the Lord ariseth for Christ can saile with halfe wind and play about and fetch a compasse yea hee can sayle against tide and wind and with no wind hee never sincks his bark nor breaks his helme nor loses a passenger nor misseth his harbour so how hopelesse was the condition of the Church when loving Jesus Christ is couched under a cold stone in the grave the onely hope of Davids throane he who was to restore the kingdome to Israel is gone and what shall the people of God now do utter desolation is so neare that God is put to it and the poore Churches coale so cold that they are at Lord either now or never either within three dayes restore the head of the Church or never Then the Lord Act. 5. 31. exalted buried Christ with his right hand to bee a Prince and a Saviour to give repentance to Israel and forgivenesse of sinnes 1. Reason Omnipotencie 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 2. Reas. This declares the depth of the wisedome of Gods unsearchable dispensation he suffereth malignants to ride over his people that hee may perfume the worke of hell in the enemies who are as it were skullions to purge the vessells of mercy and to humble them and may instampe their Acts with supernaturall events of faith and patience malignants plow the Church and sow blood in the three kingdomes the father of Christ the good husband man comes in to breake the clods and the fallow ground and reape the crop of the quiet fruits of righteousnesse and it is depth of wisdome to consider how God maketh use of mens sinfull ingagements having chainzed men to his cause and carries his owne holy and cleane worke of reformation through many foule hands and durtie intentions so when men thwart and crosse Gods will of precept they serve Gods will of providence a passenger walkes on the hatches of the ship toward the west Sea and tide and winde doe carry both him his motion and ship to the east the wisedome of God the Pilot of his Church overpowereth mens intentions which are set on gaine honour factions their owne by-ends ease and pleasure It is not unlike that when this worke now under the Lords wheeles in Britaine is come to a height of extreame desolation that wee are at this Lord either now or never and the Sea is come in at the broad side of the ship that the Lord will deliver by some immediate way and wee see feavours come to a height and then decrease and coole and when doth the Sea turne to an ebbing not while it flow to the utmost score of the coast and then be fullest seldome doth ever the Lord deliver his Church while their hope be gone and what if it bee so here that Parliaments Assemblies armies of and in both kingdomes navies shippings treaties victories can doe no more and then the Lord arise and by some immediate omnipotency wee never dreamed of calme our Sea and bring his owne ship to land First you never saw creatures doe any great worke but something was left to omnipotency and to God onely to bee done Moses led the people out of Aegypt but hee could not divide the red Sea and that was their way Secondly in Gods greatest workes immediate providence hath had hand The victory over Midian had more of Gods immediate worke then of Gideons Sword in it this truely to me is one continued miracle that these 1600. yeares God hath carried his ship and kept the passengers alive when persecuting Emperours when bloody Babylon when Hereticks Kings the hornes of the beast that rose out of the Sea fire faggots sword torments have torne the sailes of Christs Ship broken the Mast drowned the passengers yet wee live Joseph is blessed but when hee is separated from his brethren then blessings come upon the head of Joseph 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 with them But Oh! Christ to their sense is as good as absent for hee is fast alseepe and as they complaine hee careth not for them Christ walking and working for a soule in the saddest affliction of the world is a blessed visitation To bee in heaven if Christ sleepe and bee not with you is a hell and to bee in hell and want his presence is two hells to bee sicke and the onely Physitian Christ will not come at mee is two hells Gods watching presence first bringeth the courage of faith To bee in the midst of devils the beleever having God with him walketh without feare even cold death that king of terrours walking with him at his right side hee hath a passe-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 owne in trouble as the picture of a friend who hath much love in his heart while hee stands at your bed side seeing you goe to a great hell through a little hell of sicknesse and paine and cannot take off you one graine weight of sorrow and paine But God is in a farre other manner present Psal. 91. 15. I will bee with him in trouble but this is not all I will deliver him Esay 43. 2. when thou passest through the waters I will be with thee and through the Rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou