A30577:59
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.
11. The providence of God in war is great, in §11removing it from one place to another: The Lord of Hosts gives the sword commission to ride circuit from one Land to another Country, and from one part of a Kingdom unto another. Ezech. 14. 17. Or if I bring a sword upon that Land, and say, Sword go through the Land, so that I cut off man and beast in it: The sword hath been in many parts of our Land already, even in the utmost parts, Northumberland and Cornwall, the two extremities of the Land, as Dan and Beersheba in the Land of Canaan. Just were it with God to give it commission to go up and down in the midst of it, yea, in great part he hath done it already, and how is it devouring, even almost round about us? the guilt of the misery our brethren have suffered, the guilt of their blood is upon the whole Kingdom, in as much as the whole Kingdom hath not risen even as one man to prevent it, but we suffer our brethren in several places to be devoured one after another: one country hopes it will not come there, and another country hopes it shall escape, and in the mean time we suffer our brethren to be spoiled.
11. The providence of God in war is great, in §11removing it from one place to another: The Lord of Hosts gives the sword commission to ride circuite from one Land to another Countrey, and from one part of a Kingdome unto another. Ezech. 14. 17. Or if I bring a sword upon that Land, and say, Sword goe through the Land, so that I cut off man and beast in it: The sword hath beene in many parts of our Land already, even in the utmost parts, Northumberland and Cornwall, the two extremities of the Land, as Dan and Bersheba in the Land of Canaan. Just were it with God to give it commission to goe up and downe in the midst of it, yea, in great part hee hath done it already, and how is it devouring, even almost round about us? the guilt of the misery our brethren have suffered, the guilt of their blood is upon the whole Kingdome, in as much as the whole Kingdome hath not risen even as one man to prevent it, but wee suffer our brethren in severall places to bee devoured one after another: one countrey hopes it will not come there, and another countrey hopes it shall escape, and in the meane time wee suffer our brethren to bee spoyled.