A30577:147
The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at…
The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at Michaels Cornhill, London, vindicating the Commission from this Lord of Hosts, to subjects, in some case, to take up arms : with a post-script, briefly answering a late treatise by Henry Ferne, D.D. / by Jer. Burroughs.The glorious name of God, The Lord of Hosts opened in two sermons, at Michaels Cornhill, London, vindicating the Commission from this Lord of Hosts, to subjects, in some case, to take up arms : with a post-script, briefly answering a late treatise by Henry Ferne, D.D. / by Jer. Burroughes.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1643
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Some are gone, but compare those who are 1gone with those that abide, and you may easily see which way the stream of things would go, if those that stay, and the Kingdom with them, had not hearts to appear for the maintaining what God and Nature, and the Laws of the Kingdom have made their own.
1. Some are gone, but compare those who are 1gone with those that abide, and you may easily see which way the stream of things would goe, if those that stay, and the Kingdome with them, had not hearts to appeare for the maintaining what God and Nature, and the Laws of the Kingdome have made their owne.
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2. There are not so many gone as are pretended; §2if they were the greater part that disliked the others proceedings, they might come and out-vote them, and carry what they would against them.
3. When I hear of such and such men going §3from the Parliament, who ought to stay, it puts me in mind of what I have read of Aeneas Sylvius, before he was Pope himself, he was of that judgement that a general Counsel was above the Pope, and some yet wondering why so many forsook the Counsel, and would cleave to the Pope, he gave this reason, The Pope had Bishoprics, and Deaneries, and Prebendaries, & fat Benefices to bestow, but the Counsel had no such things; They saw which way preferment went, and which way it was like to go; They have not seen Offices and great places of preferment bestowed by the Parliament.