A30577:202
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.
God hath been beforehand with us in many mercies, and he hath yet more rich and glorious mercies for us, that surely will pay for all at last over and over ⟨p. 65⟩again. We are unworthy of our liberties, unworthy of the Gospel, if we prize them at so low a rate, as if they were not transcendently above all the costs we have been at, or are like to be at.
God hath been beforehand with us in many mercies, and he hath yet more rich and glorious mercies for us, that surely will pay for all at last over and over ⟨p. 65⟩again. We are unworthy of our liberties, unworthy of the Gospell, if we prize them at so low a rate, as if they were not transcendently above all the costs we have been at, or are like to be at.
We think these charges much, but there is not one year wherein our neighbours in the Low Countries are not at far more charge then we have been at this chargeable year; all our extraordinary charges are below their ordinary.
We think these charges much, but there is not one yeare wherein our neighbours in the Low Countries are not at far more charge then we have been at this chargeable yeare; all our extraordinary charges are below their ordinary.
But although there is nothing can be said, but God 1allows of these wars, yet were it not better in prudence that I be not seen in them? for if I be, if the other party prevails I am undone; if I be not, yea, although I should do something for that party, yet the Parliament will never do me any great hurt.