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A30577	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.	Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.	1643 (1643)	Wing B6074; ESTC R4315	105,730	154

speak of the first the time would soon be gone for there is much in it it is more generall therefore I will confine my selfe to the second the more speciall and now most seasonable God is the God of Armies That he might expresse himselfe the more clearly and fully interested in War-like affaires Exod. 15. 3. he styles himselfe A man of War God seemes to glory much in his workings about War-like affaires Hence Psal 24. 8. Who is the King of glory The Lord strong mighty the Lord mighty in battell The Providence of God is great in all wars but especially in those wars that concerne his people whether in a way of chastising them or defensive to save them or offensive in avenging himselfe upon their enemies I doe not know any one thing wherein the Providence of God is more fully set out in Scripture then in the workings of it about Wars as in these many particulars will be fully presented to you First God works in the raising of Warres when and how he pleaseth He is the great Generall and all battels are appointed by him He calls for them before they come and when he calls they certainly come upon a people Jer. 25. 29. Behold I begin to bring evill upon the City which is called by my name c. for I will call for a sword God doth not onely call for a sword upon the heathen but upon the Cities called by his name Certainly there is as much of God in this City as in any City this day in the World yet God may call for a sword upon you be not you secure Yea doe you not heare God now calling for it upon you Esay 5. 26. God will hisse for the Nations from the ends of the earth and behold they shall come with speede swiftly And Esay 7. 18. And it shall come to passe in that day that the Lord shall hisse for the Fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt and for the Bee that is in the Land of Assyria and they shall come Let God but give a hisse the least intimation of his mind and they shall come It was a proud speech of Pompey when one of his Officers told him they wanted men Let me sayes he but stampe with my foote upon the ground of Italy and I shall have men enough Footmen and Horsemen come from every corner Although it was a proud speech in him and when it came to he was disappointed yet it is alwayes true of this Lord of Hosts let him but speak the least word doe the least thing to gather Armies they presently come together to fight his battels when he pleaseth he can stir up the hearts of the Kings of the earth to hate the whore to make war with her Rev. 17. 16. The ten Kings shall hate the whore and make her desolate and naked they shall eate her flesh and burne her with fire It is a wonder that they stay all this while that they rise not with a spirit of indignation against her considering what base bondage they are in under her It is such a bondage wherein both soule and body and estate is in such a servile subjection to her as one would think the spirit of a man could not beare it much lesse the spirit of a King But when Gods time is come the spirits of the Kings of the earth shall be suddenly raised to war against her It is an observation of Abulensis upon 1 Chro. 14. 8. that Gods providence was very observable towards David that he should have no wars raised against him by the Philistims those seven yeers he was in Hebron which time he was but weak being King onely over the house of Judah but when all Israel came to him and he was established King over them all then came the Philistims against him So doe wee not see the mighty providence of God towards us that he did not call for the sword against us all this time till now untill we had a Parliament and that made indissoluble but by their owne consent untill our Militia in the Kingdome was well-nigh setled until we had an Army to resist If God had called for the sword before these things what had become of us Oh the mercifull providence of God towards England in this thing God is much seen in the provocations to wars consultations about them enclining mens hearts to them taking them off from peace c. It was from the Lord that Pharaohs heart was so hardned against the people of Israel to goe forth to battel against them because God had a purpose to destroy him It was of God that Rehoboam was so set to hearken to the counsel of young Cavalliers and to harden his heart against his wise Counsellors that God might rend ten Tribes from him It was of God that Ahab should be so set to goe to war against Ramoth Gilead that he might be destroyed Secondly the Lord sets up his Standard in Warre Thus he expresseth himselfe Esay 5. 26. He will lift up an Ensigne to the Nations Whosoever is the Standard-bearer it is God himselfe that sets up the Standard Thirdly it is God that musters up the Army Esay 13. 4. The Lord of Hosts mustereth the Host of the battel The Lord of Hosts is himselfe the Muster-master in Armies He thus condescends in his expressions that he might the more particularly and so the more fully shew the workings of his Providence in Military affaires Fourthly the Lord brings forth weapons out of his Armory Jer. 50. 25. The Lord hath opened his Armory and brought forth the weapons of his indignation for this is the work of the Lord of Hosts God hath his Magazine his Armory that he opens in times of Warre From whencesoever Armes come from beyond Sea or else where not one Peece can come but out of Gods Magazine If God did not open his Armory neither we nor our enemies could have Arms. There was a time when God shut up his Armory from Israel and then there was neither sword nor speare found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan onely with Saul and Jonathan there was found 1 Sam. 13. 22. Fiftly It is the Lord that gives his people their Banners to display Psal 60. 4. Thou hast given a Banner to them that fear thee that it may be displayed because of the truth There are a generation of men that fight against the truth they would take away the Gospel from them and because of this thou hast given them Banners that they may be dispayed because of this truth God would have us contend for the truth Jude 1. 3. Yea earnestly contend fight for it if that comes in question if we be in danger to lose that God gives us our Banners not to be folden up but to be displayed because of the truth Sixtly God himselfe comes into the field with his people he tels them often that he

we heare that blessed voice The Kingdomes of the earth are the Lords his Christs and he shall reigne for evermore O that thy Kingdome might come more powerfully in our hearts and that it might be more conspicuous in Church and State The speciall reason thou knowest why we are willing to venture our selves as we do to endure any hardship to part with our estates is that Antichrist may never rule amongst us againe but that we and our posterity may be under the Kingdome of Jesus Christ Surelie this is the voice of those who have the Lord of Hosts to be their God That is an everlasting rule If he be thy King he is thy God Now then for the full comfort and encouragement the Church of God may take from this glorious name Consider the Relation that the Church hath to this Lord of Hosts and the Relation this Lord of Hosts hath to the Church For the first 1. The Church is the City of the Lord of Hosts it is not onelie Gods Citie but his Citie under this Title Psal 48. 8. As we have heard so have we seen in the City of the Lord of Hosts Wee may comfortablie say This Citie of London is the City of the Lord of Hosts God hath precious Saints here abundance of them and it hath done worthilie for the honour of the Lord of Hosts of late and therefore surely the Lord of Hosts will defend it If there bee any Citie under heaven that may be called The Citie of the Lord of Hosts then I am confident the Citie of London may But we are to take here the City in a spirituall sense for the Church of God as it is usuall in Scripture Now we know when an Army hath to do with a City that is in the inheritance of the Generall then if there be any power in Generall or Army it will bee all put forth to the utmost either for the defence or gaining that City As the City of Breda in the Low-Countries when that was besieged it was soon won by the Army of the Prince of Orange because that City was the Princes own City his proper inheritance he had a speciall eye and care over that City Surely the eye and care of this Lord of Hosts though it be over Towns and Countries and walled Cities yet it is most over his Church if he hath any power in all the Armies in heaven and earth it shal be put forth for the defence of and supplying good unto this City Hence that passage in the prayer of Solomon 1 King 8 44. If thy people go to battell and shall pray to the Lord toward the City which thou hast chosen then heare in heaven Jerusalem was the City God then chose which was but a type of every Church in the time of the Gospel 2. The Church is the Vineyard of the Lord of Hosts Esay 5. 7. For the Vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the House of Israel Certainly God will not suffer the wild beasts and boares of the field to devoure and lay waste his Vineyard A Generall will be very carefull in keeping enemies out of fruitfull Countries but especially our of his own Vineyard We reade 1 Kin. 21. 2 3. how loth Naboth was to part with his Vineyard though King Ahab was sick for it yet God forbid that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee Gods Vineyard is beloved of him and deer to him Esa 27. 3. I the Lord keep it I will water it every moment lest any hurt it I will keep it night and day 3. It is the Mountain of the Lord of Hosts Zac. 8. 3. in which regard God professeth himself very jealous for it Thus saith the Lord of Hosts I was jealous for Sion with great jealousie I was jealous for her with great fury He gives the reason in the latter end of the 3. ver Jerusalem shall be called the City of truth and the Mountain of the Lord of Hosts the holy Mountain As if the Lord should say What are they come to hurt my Mountaine my holy Mountaine my Church Fury riseth up in the face of God presently Yea Esa 31. 4. When the Lord comes to fight for mount Sion he comes forth as the young Lion roaring on his prey so shall the Lord of Hosts come downe to fight for Mount Sion God will leave heaven to fight for his Church will not you leave your shops and your houses 4 The Church is the house of the Lord of Hosts Hag. 1. 14. The Text sayes They did worke in the house of the Lord of Hosts which typified Gods Church A Generall will fight to maintain his own house it were a signe the enemy had prevailed indeed if hee should come and plunder the Generals own house In regard of this that is said of the Church to bee Gods House vve have that expression Psal 24. 9 10. Lift up your heads O ye Gates even lift them up ye everlasting doores and the King of glory shall come in Who is the King of glory The Lord of Hosts he is the King of glory You know when a Prince comes to his own house the great gates are set open when other men come thither they come in at the wicket at some lesse doore but when he comes himselfe then all is set wide open 5. The Church is the place of the name of the Lord of Hosts Isay 18. 7. To the place of the name of the Lord of Hosts Mount Sion now Gods name is deare and precious to him It is a great priviledge God grants to his Church that it is the place he chooseth to set his name there Exod. 20. 24. Nehem. 1. 9. As God would have us highly to esteem that place to seeke after that place as Deut. 12. 5. Unto the place where God shall choose to put his name there shall ye seeke and thither shalt thou come thither shall you bring your burnt Offerings and Sacrifices c. So surely God himself puts a high price upon that place and he will preserve it 6. The Church is the place of the glorious reign of the Lord of Hosts Isa 24. 23. The Moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed when the Lord of hosts shal reign in Mount Sion and in Jerusalem before his Elders gloriously God hath yet a further and more glorious Kingdome to be set up in his Church then ever hath been at which all the glory of the world shall be darkned by reason of the brightnesse of this glory it is the Lord of Hosts that shall thus reigne Surely then all the Hosts shall have their strength put forth in defence of and providing for this place of this glorious reigne of their great Generall 7. The Church is the people of the Lord of Hosts Zep. 2. 10 11. This shall they have for their pride because they have reproached magnified themselves against the people of the Lord of Hosts The Lord will be terrible