A30577:250
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.
Moses his hands lift up in Prayer, and Joshua's stretched forth in the battle, makes a victorious army: Our Prayers are our Guns, saith Luther. Prayer hath done mighty things in battles. The praying Christians 1in Marcus Aurelius his Army, were called The thundering Legion. Sozomen and Nicephorus tell us that Theodosius by Prayer made the weapons of enemies turn upon themselves. I am sure it hath done as great things. One of the strangest victories that ever was heard of, was that we have recorded Numb. 31. 8. They slew five Kings of Midian, they slew all the males, and all the women that had known man, and burnt all their Cities, and took booty six hundred thousand, and seventy and five thousand sheep, and threescore and twelve thousand beeves, and threescore and one thousand Asses, and thirty and two thousand women that had not known man, ver. 32, 33, 34, 35. Now here was the wonder of this battle, that in all this great victory the Children of Israel lost not one man, for so says the Text plainly, ver. 49. Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us. And mark what was done when they went forth to this battle, ver. 6. The holy instruments and the trumpets sounded in the hands of Eleazar the Priest. It was an ordinance of God amongst them, that the Priests should sound with the silver trumpets, when they went forth to battle, Numb. 10. 9. Which was observed here, and see what a victory was obtained. An Army of prayers is as strong as any Army of men whatsoever; yea one man praying may do more then many men fighting. Elisha hath his sword to slay, as ⟨p. 88⟩well as Jehu and Hazael. 1 King. 19. 15, 16, 17. when Elijah thought there was no help, Yes, saith God, Go and anoint Hazael, and Jehu, and Elisha. As if he should say, I have Armies in the field, he that escapes the sword of Hazael, shall Jehu slay; he that escapes the sword of Jehu, shall Elisha slay. How should Elisha slay, but by his prayers? they will reach and cut down a great way off. That Scripture is very observable,