A30577:302
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.
If you will give me but a little time more, I will give you some little glimpse of the other part of this glorious name, and wind up all suddenly.
God is the Lord of Hosts in respect of that absolute command he hath over all creatures, he hath all creatures in heaven and earth under him, as a General hath his Soldiers: The Angels they are his Hosts. Psal. 68. 17. The Chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of Angels, The Lord is among them as in Sinai. In the Hebrew, the word is in the singular number the Chariot, to note the joint-service of all the Angels, they are but as one Chariot, although they be many thousands, yea Myriads of thousands as we have it here, there never is any mutiny amongst these Soldiers, their harmony is most blessed, their union firm, indissoluble. That which your English turns, Twenty thousand, even thousands, is Myriads thousands, and the word translated Angels is not elsewhere found in Scripture in that signification, it comes of Shanah to second, as being second or next to God, the chief Princes, the Nobles of Gods Court, as Dan. 10. 13. Michael one of the chief Princes: The Seventy translates the word [Greek or Hebrew], The cheerful ones, who serve this Lord of Hosts readily, and freely, and joyfully in his wars, they derive it from the Hebrew, Shaan, which signifies to be in tranquility and joy, as in Sinai, that is, as God was in Sinai with ten thousand of his holy ones when he gave the Law, Deut. 33. 2. so he is in Zion likewise, the Angels Gods Hosts, makes Zion as dreadful to all her enemies, as those Angels as appeared to God on Mount ⟨p. 116⟩Sinai, made it dreadful to the people. Thus Dan. 10. 20. The Angel tells Daniel, That he was to return to fight with the King of Persia; God hath his Angels to stand out against the great Princes of the earth, they go forth to fight with them; they often meet with terrible strokes from Angels when they little think of them.