A30577:185
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.
2. If the Parliament should now be over-poured and spoiled because they have gone according to their consciences for the good of the Kingdom, must not all Parliaments hereafter lye at mercy?
2. If the Parliament should now be over-powred and spoiled because they have gone according to their consciences for the good of the Kingdom, must not all Parliaments hereafter lye at mercie?
3. If these men prevail, is there not danger lest things should be carried as they please? if they get power into their hands, who knows but that they will presume to give Laws to us, that things shall be done according to their minds rather then the Kings? doth ⟨p. 59⟩not the King forbid plunderings now, & yet do they not plunder as they please? if then they get power into their hands fully, what will not they do then?
3. If these men prevaile, is there not danger lest things should be carried as they please? if they get power into their hands, who knows but that they wil presume to give Laws to us, that things shal be done according to their minds rather then the Kings? doth ⟨p. 59⟩not the King forbid plunderings now, & yet do they not plunder as they please? if then they get power into their hands fully, what will not they do then?
These things being so obvious to every mans thoughts, that one can hardly be a man to understand any thing, but he must needs think of those things; how then is it possible that the Kingdom should not generally rise with a spirit of indignation against these men, who are thus risen up to make such spoil and waste in the Kingdom? Although they do not yet stir in many places, hoping there may be some help of these things some other way; but if they see there be no other help, it cannot be conceived but this spirit of indignation must rise through out the Kingdom; men will never suffer themselves to be baffled out of their Religion, their liberties, their estates on this fashion; They will never so unworthily desert those whom they have chosen, and betrusted with their estates, liberties and lives, those who have been so faithful to them, spending their strength in their indefatigable labours night and day, wasting their estates, and hazarding their lives for them; wherefore it cannot be imagined that the adversaries should ever gather more strength then we.