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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

times You shall shew your selves the daughters of Sarah if you have such a spirit as Sarah had not to be afraid with any amazement not through your inordinate feare either hinder your selves your husbands or any other in the service of the Lord. If God call you or them to suffer you must not through feare pull backe but go on with courage undauntedly then you are indeed the daughters of Sarah And that a spirit may be put even into women in these times that call for all to be above sinfull feares let them consider these three things First The first time that ever any speaking to God called him by this name the Lord of Hosts it was a woman and that was Hannah 1 Sam. 1. 11. Shee vowed a vow and said O Lord of Hosts if thou wilt indeed looke on the affliction of thine handmaid c. Secondly One of the principallest Psalms wherin this title of the Lord of Hosts is most magnified is a Psalme tuned to that Musical instrument that virgins and women use to play on from whence the Psalme hath its title A Song upon Alamoth Ps 46. Which is as much as A song upon the Virginals for the Hebrew word comes of a root that signifies to hide and so we formerly made use of it but from thence because Virgins used to be covered and hidden hence Gnalamoth signifies Virgins and here used for the musical instrument of Virgins Virgins and Women it seems had wont to sing this Psal and play to it upon the instrument Now it is supposed that their hearts should be some way sutable to what they sung played here they rejoycingly sing The Lord of Hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge ver 7 And again The Lord of Hosts is with us the God of Jacob is our refuge ver 11. besides other passages yea almost all the same tending this way 3. The most brave expression of a strong valiant spirit triumphing over enemies in time of battel is from a woman Jud. 5. 21. it is the speech of Deborah O my soul thou hast trodden down strength As if she should have said They come with a great deale of strength that they think to prevail with but to me all their strength is but as the dirt in the streets my soul is above it though my body be weak yet O my soul thou hast troden down strength Where have we a braver expression of a more raised spirit either in Scripture amongst any of the Lords valiant ones or in humane story amongst any of the great Captaines and Conquerours that ever were I cannot but repeat it again O my soule thou hast trodden down strength Let not women then so complain of their weaknes as thereby to think to excuse their sinfull feares I will give you a notable speech comming neer this from another woman that Ecclesiasticall story records of one Julitta there are many famous things recorded of her but this speech of hers to other women of her acquaintance is most remarkable Cease to accuse sayes she the fragility of the Foeminine sexe What are not we made of the same matter that men are Yea after Gods Image are we made as wel as they God did not use flesh to make women of in token of infirmity We are bone of his bone in token we must be strong in the living God If the spirit of The Lord of Hosts were with you even you may daunt your enemies You may make such preparations for your own defence as not to let your lives go at a cheap rate but that the losse of every one of yours may cost the life of one of them at least Even you may cast shame upon them If there were such a spirit in you they would fly before women for their spirits are base and vile If God be the Lord of Hosts if he hath such wonderfull workings of his providence in wars and battels hence in all war and battels there is some speciall thing of God to be looked at Surely this great Lord of Hosts doth not use to raise War to go into the field for nothing there is some great thing aimed at especially where he appears in more then an ordinary way as certainly he doth in these wars of ours We should not hearken after or speake of Warres onely as matter of news but observe what the way of God is in them what his aim looks to in ordering of them what his intentions work at how he brings his own ends to passe furthers his glory by them Whosoever lives to see the issue of these great stirs and warlike commotions amongst us shall see that God had a hand in them to bring great things to passe that the mercy he intended for us was worth all the trouble these have brought upon us yea all the bloud the most precious bloud that hath been shed amongst us God hath many promises to his Churches to accomplish many Prophecies to fulfil many glorious things to declare many mercies for his Saints to bestow these stirs amongst us wil make way for all We have had much mercy from God on free-cost that mercie that is to come it may be is of an higher nature therefore God intends it shall be more costly to us it may cost many of our lives but we or our posteritie shall see that when it comes it wil pay for all That this Lord of Hosts had great thoughts of heart for the good of England when he raised these Civil wars amongst us though it be the sorest judgement yet it may make way to the greatest mercy It is our duty diligently to observe how God works in his Providence to the attaining such ends of his 6. God is The Lord of Hosts Hence know from whence it is that we have enjoyed so much peace as we have with the comfortable fruits of it it is from The Lord of Hosts who hath all power in his hands to keep off or bring war as he pleaseth It it is he alone that hath kept off from us those hideous things others have suffered it is from him that we have not all this while wallowed not sweltred in our bloud that our garments have not been rowled in bloud as our brethrens have but we have enjoyed our houses beds tables wives children we have had all comforts for soule and body about us Micah 4. 4. They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig-tree and none shall make them afraid From whence is this The words following wil tell you The mouth of the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it The Vines and Fig-trees we have sate under have not beene empty Vines nor barren Fig-trees to us we have not onely had refreshment from the shadow of them but much comfort from the fruit of them It was this Lord that promised to Israel that he would cause their enemies not to desire their land when they went up to Jerusalem to worship What a

low mean poor cowardly spirit hee would be a reproach to his Father and the very mention of his Father would be a reproach to him Christians do not you professe God to be your Father do you not know your Father is the Lord of Hosts where are your spirits of magnanimity and fortitude of courage and valour beseeming the children of such a glorious Father the Lord of Hosts If you be of the right breed you must needes be generous it is impossible but you should have something of his spirit in you if you be of low unworthy sensuall cowardly spirits you are not begotten of him God hath no children but they have some beam of every excellencie of his that such creatures are capable of Now this is the question what have you of the spirit of this great God The spirit of the Devil although it be a proud spirit yet it is a base cowardly spirit If you resist the Devill he will fly from you The truth is all the men in the world have vile spirits Gods children are men of another spirit God breeds up all his children to bee Souldiers there are none in heaven but were bred Souldiers as they grew up were brought up in military discipline Many Nations bring up their children to be Soldiers from their tēder yeers they discipline them this way The Parthians bring up their children in teaching them the use of the bow the Scythians in the use of the dart the Germans in the use of the speare All Gods children are here members of the Church militant it is fit for them to be skilful not onely in the use of the spirituall Armour but of bodily also Who so fit to be used in the battels of the Lord as they who have most interest in the Lord who so fit to venture his body to the sword in time of war as he that can give his body to the fire in time of peace Isay 13. 3. Souldiers whom God chooseth for his battails are called his sanctified ones an honourable title given to souldiers Gods sanctified ones and who so fit to be Gods sanctified ones set apart for such services as those who are sanctified by his Spirit set apart for himself eternally The valour of that people the Gaules was admired by the Romans it proceeded from that instruction they had from their Druides of the immortality of the soul Those are fittest to venture their lives in fight who are able to see beyond life to see what is on the other side of the shore of this mortality even eternall life and glory All the Saints especially in these days should be ful of spirit strong in the might of the Lord because Jesus Christ is about to pul down that great enemy of his That man of sin and in his conquest he is said to come with his garments dipt in blood Apoc. 19. Now that true spirit that beseemes one who hath this Lord of Hosts to be his Father is 1. A spirit that scornes to be base he wil not be a slave to the Devill or any lust of his own or other mens he thinks himself too good for sin If you set one that has the spirit of a Soldier in him to drudgery he scornes it he thinks himself above any such imployment he has the true spirit of a Souldier that has got the victory over himself In this every souldier of this Lord of Hosts hath a spirit above the great renowned Souldiers of the World Alexander Pompey Themistocles c. they were all vassals to their lusts And although he be willing to serve men under God yet he will never be a slave to their lusts but will maintain the liberty of a man and a Christian to himself and posterity Philo Judaeus reports of a Heathenish people who in their wars used onely this expression to put spirit into their Souldiers Estote viri libertas agitur be men your liberty is in question But what is this bondage that the spirit of a Christian will not should not beare There is a naturall slavery that as a man he should not he wil not be subject to that is in these 3. things 1. To give up his own propriety in what he hath so as whatsoever God and Nature hath given him should not be his own but wholly at the will of another 2. Subjection to that government that he no way either by himselfe or others hath ever yeelded consent unto neither is bound to by the Law of God in his word nor by the Law of Nature 3. To be in such a condition as that whatsoever service he doth he shall receive nothing for it by way of justice but meerly out of favour this is slavery which an ingenuous spirit cannot beare And as a Christian he will not subject his conscience to any but reserves that to doe his homage unto God by it A spirit of the right breed though it foresees dangers in the cause of God yet it can and doth resolutely encounter with them That speech of Esther was a speech that came from a brave spirit though a woman If I perish I perish but it was a fruit of fasting and prayer Ay that is the way to get a spirit of courage indeed The like we have of the three Children in Daniel Chap. 3. 16. O Nebuchadnezar we are not carefull to answer thee in this matter Behold our God whom we serve is able to deliver us out of thine hand O King But if not be it known unto thee O King that we wil not serve thy gods nor worship thy golden image which thou hast set up That famous expression of Paul hath the like true Christian valour sparkling in it when it was prophesyed that he should be bound at Jerusalem at which many of the Saints with him fel on weeping Why do you weep and break my heart sayes Paul I am not onely ready to be bound at Jerusalem but to dye for the name of Christ That expression that is recorded of Ignatius is famous likewise in this kind it is in an Epistle of his to the congregation of Trallis Let the fire the gallows the devouring of wild beasts the breaking of bones the pulling asunder of my members the bruising or pressing of my whole body and the torments of the devill or hell it self come upon me so that I may win Christ Jesus Here was one that had the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts in him The like had Luther when he said If all the tyles of the houses of the City of Wormes were devils he would go thither knowing he was called by God to witnesse to the truth there This resolutenesse of spirit manifests it self in dangerous times in a readinesse to joyne with our brethren in difficult services wherein there is much hazard and trouble A man of a true raised spirit that hath true courage in it will not see his brethren in hot services and let them alone in them

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