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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

malice and rage against us yea against Christ himselfe and his Saints 13. The spirit of valour and courage is also from this Lord of Hosts When the Spirit of the Lord came upon Sampson Gideon and others of the Worthies of the Lord what great things did they Heb. 11. 33 34. Who through faith subdued Kingdomes stopped the mouthes of Lyons out of weaknesse were made strong waxed valiant in sight turned to slight the Armies of the Aliens It was through faith they were enabled to doe all this faith fetcht valour and courage from this Lord of Hosts Hag. 1. 14. The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel and the spirit of Joshua and the spirit of all the Remnant of the people and they came and did worke in the house of the Lord of Hosts their God It was a warlike spirit to resist their enemies to encounter with dangers God hath stirred up a spirit in many of our Nobles in our Worthies of Parliament in some of our people if a spirit were now stirred up in the remnant of our people our worke would soone bee at an end It were the unworthiest yea the most horrible thing that ever was in this world that now people should forsake Nobility those they have chosen in Parliament and Ministers who have had a spirit to stand up for God and their liberties Oh that a spirit of indignation would arise in the whole Kingdome that they may not suffer themselves to be baffled out of their Religion their Liberties their estates by a generation of vile men that are risen up amongst us Zac. 10. 3 5. The Lord of Hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battel They shall be as mighty men which tread down their enemies in the mire of the streets in the battel It seems they presumed to come into their towns and Cities therefore sayes the Text They shall tread them down us mire in the streets They are vile and therefore to be trodden down as mire in the streets The spirits of those that seem to be the greatest terror amongst us are mean and base What worthy thing have they ever done have they ever stood before those that opposed them All their valour is in going up and down to Countrey houses in a poore unworthy manner pillaging and pilfring A spirit in people raised by God would scorne to be brought under by men of such spirits as these Further as God gives a spirit of courage so he takes it away when he pleases Is 19. 16. And in that day shall Egypt be like unto women and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of Hosts which he shaketh over it and the land of Judah shal be a terror unto Egypt every one that maketh mention thereof shal be afraid in himself because of the counsell of the Lord of Hosts It may be they will not confesse that they are afraid but may make their boast as if they had got the better but marke the words every one shall be afraid in himself If we could look into their bosoms we should see blacknes tremblings the terror of the Lord upon them Ps 76. 5 The stout hearted are spoiled they have slept their sleep none of the men of might have found their hands at thy rebuke O Lord the horse chariot are cast into a dead sleep and v. 12. He shal cut off the spirit of Princes he is terrible to the Kings of the earth he shall wipe them off as a man will doe a flower between his fingers or as easily as a bunch of grapes is cut off from the vine 14. The Lord of Hosts hath the absolute power over all weapons in battel to let them prosper or not prosper as he pleaseth This is beyond all the Generals in the world Isay 54. 17. No weapons formed against thee shall prosper If any shal say This is a speciall promise to them at that time mark what follows This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord This that is this promise of the Lord is the inheritance of his servants Now we of late have had the benefit of this our inheritance the last Lords day fortnight we did inherit this promise when there were 17. Canons discharged from the Adversary and not one man slain by them How was this made good that no weapon formed against thee shall prosper The adversary was enraged at this they said they thought the devil was in the powder No it was God that was there fulfilling this promise of his to his servants 15. All the successe in battels is from the Lord of Hosts It is not in men nor ammunition nor in advantages Eccles 9. 11. The battel is not to the strong A horse is but a vaine thing for safety Psal 33. 17. Behold is it not of the Lord of Hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity Hab. 2. 13. Yea lastly the whole battel is the Lords when it is a just cause 1 Sam. 17. 47. The battel is the Lords Now you see what the Scripture saith about Gods providence in battel You have the summe presented here together in which is a full and strong encouragement to those who fight the battels of the Lord. Now if the Question be asked Why doth the Lord thus work in Armies The Answer is 1. Because the lives of men are precious to him In them multitudes of creatures are cast for their eternall estates If not a sparrow not a haire from the head falls to the ground without providence much lesse the life of a creature appointed for eternity 2. Because of the great things of consequence that depend upon War the mighty turnes of Nations and changes of Kingdoms depend upon them But how comes it to passe seeing God is thus The Lord of Hosts that yet the adversaries of Gods people doe often prevaile in battel 1. It is for the chastisement of his people Ashur is made sometimes the rod of Gods anger Jer. 12. 7. I have given the dearly beloved of my soule into the hands of her enemies She is the dearly beloved of Gods soule yet she is given into the hands of her enemies We must not judge by the present prevailing that God loves those who have the day and hath rejected those who seeme to have the worst God sometimes for chastisement brings the worst of men upon them Ezek. 7. 24. I will bring the worst of the heathen and they shall possesse their houses The Lord hath raised up against us many that are the worst the vilest upon the face of the earth and they have possessed the houses of many of his Saints the dearly beloved of Gods soule We use to take the vilest the worst of men to be Hangmen the worst rags and clouts to scoure withall It is an argument that we are very foule

unto them They in their pride lift up themselves and magnifie themselves against the Saints as if they were a company of silly weak men they doe not know that they are the people of the Lord of Hosts therefore God threatens there that he will be terrible unto them And thus you have the Relation of the Church to God revealing himselfe in this name The Lord of Hosts yet marke further the Relation that God hath to them in this his name As 1. The Lord of Hosts is the portion of his Church Jer. 10. 16. The portion of Jacob is not like them hee is the former of all things The Lord of Hosts is his name Wherefore if there be any thing in The Lord of Hosts that can doe them good they may challenge it for God The Lord of Hosts is their portion they may make use of all that is in him for their good 2. Hs is their Redeemer That you have in the Text Our Redeemer The Lord of Hosts is his name The Lord undertakes the redeeming of his people under this title of his on purpose that the multitude the greatnesse the fury of their enemies might not daunt them Your Redeemer is not one that cannot save he is The Lord of Hosts and one you may certainly confide in for he is The holy One of Israel 3. He is the pleader yea the through pleader of the cause of his people Jer. 50. 34. Their Redeemer is strong the Lord of Hosts is his name he shall throughly plead their cause that he may give rest to the land and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon God hath begun to plead the cause of his people already and hee hath shewne himselfe The Lord of Hosts in it but hee hath not yet throughly pleaded their cause as he meanes to doe when he shall doe that he will then give rest to the Land and disquiet the Inhabitants of Babylon This work will cost the inhabitants of Babylon deare they were never so disquieted amongst us as they are at this day They have troubled the Saints and God now troubles them but will yet disquiet them more although they thinke to defend themselves by gathering Armies yet the Lord of Hosts shall disquiet them and give rest to his people There remaines yet a rest for the people of God even in this world 4. The Lord of Hosts is the Husband of his Church and this is the most neare and sweet relation of all Esa 54. 4 5 6. Feare not c. For thy Maker is thy Husband the Lord of Hosts is his name The Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken grieved in spirit when thou wast refused saith thy God Alas saith the Church I am a poore desolate widow a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit every one neglects me I am rejected of all Well sayes God I took thee when thou wert thus forsaken to be my Spouse I have marryed thee to my selfe therefore now feare not I am the Lord of Hosts the God of the whole earth Surely a Generall if he hath the heart of a man in him he will fight for his Spouse he will not suffer his Spouse to be ravished before his eyes What sayes Ahasuerus concerning Haman Will he force the Queen before my face Vile men are risen up and they seeke to ravish the Church the Spouse of the Lord of Hosts and do you think he will suffer this before his face Shall not all the Armies in heaven and earth rather come together and fight for her deliverance Now then if all these things be thus we have cause then to quiet our hearts in the midst of all our fears and distractions to stand still and see the salvation of God the salvation that this Lord of Hosts is working for us This is the businesse that I have been endeavouring to enlarge before you the object of your faith and to lessen the object of your feare Surely if the Lord of Hosts hath such a relation to his Church and the Church such a relation to him he cannot but be exceedingly provoked against any that shall meddle with his Church to doe it hurt I will give you one notable expression of his anger against such Esa 3. 15. What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poore saith the Lord of Hosts God here speaks angerly What am I the Lord of Hosts and will you offer this What mean you As when we flie upon a man in anger whom we see doth things to our prejudice or the prejudice of any neer to us in an absurd maner we say What doe you mean to do thus what are you mad Doe you know what you doe Doe you know who they are you thus abuse From all these gracious expressions of this Lord of Hosts to the comfort and encouragement of his people the result is that in the 8. of Esay 12 13. Say not A confederacy to them that say A confederacy oh many of their forces are joyned together feare not their feare but sanctifie the Lord of Hosts himselfe and let him be your feare and let him be your dread The Name of God is a strong Antidote to drive feare out of the hearts of the weakest Upon what we have seene in this title of God we may well say to the fearful in heart be strong feare not as we have it Isa 35. 4. Let women and all such as are naturally feareful take heed of sinfull feare The fearfulnesse of women hanging about their Husbands and children and friends crying out when they should goe forth in this service and going up and down wringing their hands and making dolefull outcries may do abundance of hurt exceedingly hinder the work that the Lord hath now in hand Let women take heed they be not hindrances but let them learne to exercise faith and take spirit to themselves that they may further their Husbands children and friends in this work of the Lord of Hosts Marke that Scripture 1 Pet. 3. 6. Yee are the daughters of Sarah so long as you do well and be not afraid with any amazement Yee would all willingly be accounted the daughters of Sarah Observe how the holy Ghost puts it upon this that you be not afraid with any amazement it may be nature may cause some feare but grace must keepe it that it be not with any amazement Why is it thus put upon this As Abraham is most commended for his faith and so by beleeving wee are the children of Abraham so it seemes Sarah his wife in those difficulties that Abrabam went through she was no hinderance but a furtherance to him she did not cry out to him Why will you leave your fathers house and all your kindred and go up and downe in a strange country in the middest of dangers and many straits no but shee rather was a helpe to him and an encourager of him so saies Peter who speaking to Christians who lived in troublesome and dangerous

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

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

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