That which you see this morning, may put you in mind a little of it, yet I shall not speak much of it now, Because you that have been Auditors here, and others too, may know, that even in this place I have preached upon that Title, The Lord of Hosts, That glorious Name 1of God, the Lord of Hosts, and likewise published it, I opened that Title some years since, because God did appear to England in that Title, the Lord of Hosts more fully than in former times. Therefore to the end that we in this Land might learn now to sanctify that Name of God, The Lord of Hosts, I endeavoured to open it as I was able unto you, to show what glory of God was in that Name, that we might sanctify it; and since that time the Lord hath given us more occasion to sanctify that Name of his than formerly, indeed this Title, Lord of Hosts, as well as Jehovah is the Memorial of God, and should be to the posterity that remains, we should tell the posterity after how the Lord hath manifested himself the Lord of Hosts among us; if ever God appeared in the Glory of this Title in any Country and Nation, then he hath done it here: It is from the Lord of Hosts that our Armies have prevailed so as they have done; one that hath but half an eye (as we use to say) can see it. Had God wrought our Victory by a company of Old, Brave, Gallant Soldiers, and by Mighty Armies, then the Glory of God as the Lord of Hosts had been eclipsed in some measure, but when as such great things have been done, as scarce any story can tell us, since Joshua's time, the great things that have been done as have been here in this Kingdom within this twelve months, I say the most remarkable story it will be, of what hath been done, as ever we read of in any stories. How will the Lord of Hosts be in his memorial if these Stories be set out to the life, 2lustre, and verity of them! the children that are not yet born will learn to magnify God by this Name of his, Lord of Hosts, that such things should be done by an Army ⟨p. 271⟩so contemptible in the eye of flesh and blood as this 3our Army was, it is no other than the Lord of Hosts that hath appeared for us.
That which you see this morning, may put you in mind a little of it, yet I shall not speak much of it now, Because you that have been Auditors here, and others too, may know, that even in this place I have preached upon that Title, The Lord of Hosts, That glorious Name 1of God, the Lord of Hosts, and likewise published it, I opened that Title some yeers since, because God did appear to England in that Title, the Lord of Hosts more fully than in former times. Therefore to the end that we in this Land might learn now to sanctifie that Name of God, The Lord of Hosts, I endeavored to open it as I was able unto you, to shew what glory of God was in that Name, that we might sanctifie it; and since that time the Lord hath given us more occasion to sanctifie that Name of his than formerly, indeed this Title, Lord of Hosts, as well as Iehovah is the Memorial of God, and should be to the posterity that remains, we should tell the posterity after how the Lord hath manifested himself the Lord of Hosts among us; if ever God appeared in the Glory of this Title in any Country and Nation, then he hath done it here: It is from the Lord of Hosts that our Armies have prevailed so as they have done; one that hath but half an eye (as we use to say) can see it. Had God wrought our Victory by a company of Old, Brave, Gallant Soldiers, and by Mighty Armies, then the Glory of God as the Lord of Hosts had been ecclipsed in some measure, but when as such great things have been done, as scarce any story can tell us, since Ioshua's time, the great things that have been done as have been here in this Kingdom within this twelve months, I say the most remarkable story it will be, of what hath been done, as ever we reade of in any stories. How wil the Lord of Hosts be in his memorial if these Stories be set out to the life, 2lustre, and verity of them! the children that are not yet born will learn to magnifie God by this Name of his, Lord of Hosts, that such things should be done by an Army ⟨p. 271⟩so contemptible in the eye of flesh and blood as this 3our Army was, it is no other than the Lord of Hosts that hath appeared for us.
- 1Lord of Hosts. [The glorious Name of the Lord of Hosts: the Title of a Book of the Authors, being one of the first in defence of the Wars on the Parliaments side]
- 2An impartial story of the late Wars would tend much to Gods glory.An impartial story of the late Warrs would tend much to Gods glory.
- 3The New-Model at first
