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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.
Yea, yet further, for the setting out mercy to us, that glory may be given to this Lord of Hosts, Consider what the Holy Ghost says, ver. 23, 24, 25. of this 8. Chap. concerning Gods taking advantage against his people for their sins, which he hath not done against us, as it appears this day. When the 1transgressors are come to the full, a King of fierce countenance, one of an extreme bold daring spirit, a Prince that will venture upon such desperate things, as few Princes in the world would dare to venture upon the like; if any of his Nobles or others come before him and speak any thing to him not agreeable to his designs, he looks with a fierce countenance upon them, his countenance showing the extreme fierceness of his spirit: Hence it was that his name was changed from Epiphanes to Epimanes, for his fierce cruelty: but beside his fierceness, he shall carry things subtly too, he shall be one that understands dark sentences; by his wit and subtlety, and ⟨p. 110⟩by the help of those about him he shall make such expositions of dark things, as a man would wonder at it, no man could have thought that such things could have been picked out of passages as he shall pick up, and by this he shall be able to put such a colour upon the foulest things, as they shall appear very specious to many.
Yea, yet further, for the setting out mercie to us, that glory may be given to this Lord of Hosts, Consider what the Holy Ghost sayes, ver. 23, 24, 25. of this 8. Chap. concerning Gods taking advantage against his people for their sins, which hee hath not done against us, as it appeares this day. When the 1transgressors are come to the full, a King of fierce countenance, one of an extream bold daring spirit, a Prince that will venture upon such desperate things, as few Princes in the world would dare to venture upon the like; if any of his Nobles or others come before him and speake any thing to him not agreeable to his designes, he lookes with a fierce countenance upon them, his countenance shewing the extreame fiercenesse of his spirit: Hence it was that his name was changed from Epiphanes to Epimanes, for his fierce cruelty: but beside his fiercenesse, he shall carry things subtilly too, he shall be one that understands dark sentences; by his wit and subtilty, and