A30577:332
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.
Preamble to SECT. I.
SO many good people that are come to a sense of Religion and godliness, are miserably carried away by a strange implicit saith, to believe whatsoever is said or done in the name of the Parliament, &c. to be infallibly true and just.
SO many good people that are come to a sense of Religion and godlinesse, are miserably carryed away by a strange implicite saith, to beleeve whatsoever is said or done in the name of the Parliament, &c. to be infallibly true and just.
It seems those who have not a sense of Religion, do not so easily believe the truth and justice of what is done in the name of the Parliament. This is most 1certain, who are hardest to believe what the Parliament says, but Papists, and notorious blasphemers, and profane livers? I condemn not all, but compare the generality of the one side, and of the other; you shall find an apparent difference in the lives of the one, from the lives of the other: Yea, so it is now that if a man as heretofore were not profane, or loose at least, or zealous for ceremonies, he was accounted a Puritan; so now a Round-head, that is, in their ordinary interpretation, one for the Parliament.
It seems those who have not a sense of Religion, do not so easily beleeve the truth and justice of what is done in the name of the Parliament. This is most