N01905:17
A vision in the temple. The Lord of Hosts, adored
A vision in the temple. The Lord of Hosts, adored; and the King of Glory proclaimed; on a day of prayer kept (May 10. 1721) at the opening of the New Brick Meeting House in the north part of Boston, by the ministers of the city, with the Society which built it, & this day swarmed into it. / By Cotton Mather, D.D. and F.R.S. ; [Two lines from Isaiah]
Boston: printed for Robert Starkey. And sold, 1721
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
When we behold our SAVIOUR, we behold, The King of Glory: we Behold the King in His Beauty, and see the most Glorious thing in the Land that is afar off. But with Souls full of wonderments, we cannot but raise the Question, Who is this King of Glory? There is but one part of the Reply to be made unto the Question, in this Account, ⟨p. 6⟩that is now given of Him; The Lord of Hosts He is the King of Glory. When we have had, The Lord of Hosts, in the best View, that we can give or get of Him, it may be said, How little a portion is heard of Him! This Title, The LORD of HOSTS, I find many more then Threescore Times given to our SAVIOUR in this Word of CHRIST. What Precious Thoughts of Him will it afford unto us!
When we behold our SAVIOUR, we behold, The King of Glory: we Behold the King in His Beauty, and see the most Glorious thing in the Land that is afar off. But with Souls full of wonderments, we cannot but raise the Question, Who is this King of Glory? There is but one part of the Reply to be made unto the Question, in this AcAccount, ⟨p. 6⟩that is now given of Him; The Lord of Hosts He is the King of Glory. When we have had, The Lord of Hosts, in the best Veiw, that we can give or get of Him, it may be said, How little a portion is heard of Him! This Title, The LORD of HOSTS, I find many more then Threescore Times given to our SAVIOUR in this Word of CHRIST. What Precious Thoughts of Him will it afford unto us!
I. When our SAVIOUR is called The LORD of Hosts, you are aware, that the Name of JEHOVAH, is ascribed unto Him. The Denomination in the Original is, JEHOVAH Zabaoth. Yea, Even, in the Greek of our New-Testament so much of the Hebrew Appellation is retained, that we read J•m. V.4. concerning, The Lord of Sabaoth. It is most certain, That the Name, JEHOVAH, does belong unto our SAVIOUR. That Appellation, Which is, and which was, and which is to come, is but the Translation of the Name JEHOVAH. The Prophet was an Eye-witness to the Seraphim;