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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.
To his Excellency, ROBERT, Earle of Essex, Viscount Hereford, Baron Ferrars of Chartley, Lord Bourchier and Louvain, one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Counsel, and General of the Army raised by the Parliament in defence of the true Protestant Religion, His Majesties Person, the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom, and the privileges of Parliament.
To his Excellencie, ROBERT, Earle of Essex, Viscount Hereford, Baron Ferrars of Chartley, Lord Bourchier and Lovaine, one of His Majesties most Honourable Privie Counsel, and General of the Army raised by the Parliament in defence of the true Protestant Religion, His Majesties Person, the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom, and the priviledges of Parliament.
There is no man this day upon the face of the earth whom it more concerns to have this name of God The Lord of Hosts presented to him in the due lustre & glory of it, then your Excellency, whom the Lord hath not only honoured to stand up even in the fore front to maintain his cause, and the cause of his people, but he hath even put upon you this his own name, he hath made you the Lord of his Hosts. It is that which every Soldier may justly glory ⟨image 3⟩in, that God himself seems to affect the glory of Arms, when he causeth himself to be as it were sir-named THE LORD OF HOSTS. The beams of this glorious name puts some lustre upon the meanest in an Army; What a lustre then doth it put upon your Excellency, who stand so near it? Happy the time that ever you were borne to be made use of by God and his people in so noble and honourable a service as this. We read ZECH. 3. 3. of Joshua, that great instrument of Reformation, in the return of JUDAH from her Captivity, that he stood in filthy garments, but the Angel spake to those who stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him: and unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment. Those who stand up most eminent and forward in the cause of God and his people, shall ever have some who will seek to stain their glory by slanders and reproachful names, to put them into vile garments: what viler garment can there be then the garment of Treason and Rebellion? But the Angel stands by to take off these vile garments, and to cleanse his servants even from this nominal iniquity: he will put