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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.
We may say of this Name of God, The Lord of Hosts, as God himself says of his Name Jehovah, Exod. 6. 3. By my Name Jehovah was I not known to them: So by this name, The Lord of Hosts, God hath scarce been known to us here in England; but now he appears to us by this name in a glorious way: And we shall not know how to sanctify it, except we search into it, to see how much of Gods glory there is in it, which we shall find much more then at first view seems to be, then most of us have ever thought; All Gods titles are full of excellency. The excellency of this I shall open unto you, that this Name of God may not be taken in vain by you, but be sanctified as it is worthy.
We may say of this Name of God, The Lord of Hosts, as God himselfe sayes of his Name Jehovah, Exod. 6. 3. By my Name Jehovah was I not known to them: So by this name, The Lord of Hosts, God hath scarce been known to us here in England; but now he appears to us by this name in a glorious way: And we shall not know how to sanctifie it, except wee search into it, to see how much of Gods glory there is in it, which we shall find much more then at first view seems to be, then most of us have ever thought; All Gods titles are full of excellencie. The excellencie of this I shall open unto you, that this Name of God may not be taken in vain by you, but be sanctified as it is worthy.
It is a title that God hath heretofore delighted much, yea gloried much in; we find it not less then two hundred times in the Old Testament, and most ⟨p. 3⟩frequently in the Prophecy of Zechariah, Chap. 1. ver. 3. we have it three times in one verse, and in one short Chapter, Zech. 8. we have it there eighteen times.
It is a title that God hath heretofore delighted much, yea gloryed much in; we find it not lesse then two hundred times in the Old Testament, and most