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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.
A spirit of the right breed though it foresees dangers §2in the cause of God, yet it can and doth resolutely encounter with them. That speech of Esther was a speech that came from a brave spirit, though a woman, If I perish, I perish; but it was a fruit of fasting and prayer. Ay, that is the way to get a spirit of courage indeed.
The like we have of the three Children in Daniel, Chap. 3. 16. O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter; Behold, our God whom we serve, is able to deliver us out of thine hand, O King: But if not, ⟨p. 95⟩be it known unto thee, O King, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship thy golden image which thou hast set up. That famous expression of Paul hath the like true Christian valour sparkling in it, when it was prophesied that he should be bound at Jerusalem, at which many 1of the Saints with him fell on weeping, Why do you weep and break my heart? says Paul: I am not only ready to be bound at Jerusalem, but to dye for the name of Christ. That expression that is recorded of Ignatius is famous likewise in this kind; it is in an Epistle of his to the congregation of Trallis, Let the fire, the gallows, the devouring of wild beasts, the breaking of bones, the pulling asunder of my members, the bruising or pressing of my whole body, and the torments of the devil or hell it self come upon me, so that I may win Christ Jesus. Here was one that had the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts in him. The like had Luther, when he said, If all the tiles of the houses of the City of Worms were devils, he would go thither, knowing he was called by God to witness to the truth there.
The like we have of the three Children in Daniel, Chap. 3. 16. O Nebuchadnezar, we are not carefull to answer thee in this matter; Behold, our God whom we serve, is able to deliver us out of thine hand, O King: But if not,