A30577:33
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.
Times of Reformation, Temple-work, usually meets with much, with strong opposition. We had need therefore to have this name of God in our eye, and sanctify it in our hearts, in such times, while such work is on foot.
Times of Reformation, Temple-work, usually meets with much, with strong opposition. We had need therefore to have this name of God in our eye, and sanctifie it in our hearts, in such times, while such work is on foot.
It is true, God did this work without blood-shed, it was done not by power or by might, but by the Spirit of the Lord, as we have it Zech. 4. 6. but because the work was such, as in regard of second causes, needed an Army to effect it; although God did it himself, yet his Name was to be sanctified in it, as the Lord of Hosts. In the New Testament we seldom find this title; it is but twice that I remember in all the New Testament, and in one of those two places it is quoted out of the Old Testament, Rom. 9. 29. There the Hebrew word is retained, The Lord of Sabaoth, not of 1Sabbath, as many take it. There is a great difference between these two, The Lord of Sabbath, and The Lord of Sabaoth: The one is the Lord of rest, the other is the Lord of Hosts: those words come from a different root ⟨p. 4⟩in the Hebrew. The second place is James 5. 4. and there you have not the English word Hosts, but the Hebrew word Sabaoth likewise. In the New Testament we have Gods Titles fuller of sweetness and grace, as The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, The God of all consolation, The Father of mercies, The God of peace, &c. The more cause have we to be humbled, who live in the times of the Gospel, and yet are come to such times wherein God hath changed as it were his name, and even in the times of the Gospel appears to us in this dreadful name of his, The Lord of Hosts.