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Gods three arrows plague, famine, sword, in three treatises. I. A plaster for the…Gods three arrovves plague, famine, svvord, in three treatises. I. A plaister for the…
Gods three arrows plague, famine, sword, in three treatises. I. A plaster for the plague. II. Dearths death. III. The Churches conquest over the sword. By William Gouge Doctor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friars, London.Gods three arrovves plague, famine, svvord, in three treatises. I. A plaister for the plague. II. Dearths death. III. The Churches conquest over the sword. By William Gouge Doctor in Divinity, and preacher of Gods Word in Black-Friers, London.
London: printed by George Miller for Edward Brewster, 1631
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.
§. 19. Of soldiers encouragement in just war.
§. 19. Of souldiers encouragement in just warre.
That which hath been delivered of the lawfulness of war cannot but afford matter of much comfort and courage to such as are called to just war. They may on this ground go in faith, with much confidence, cheerfully, and courageously. If there be peace betwixt God and their own souls, if they have truly repented of all their sins, if their persons be justified as well as their cause warranted, they may not only call upon God, and that in faith, for his assistance and blessing, and depend on him for the same, but also undauntedly meet death in the mid-way, and comfortably commend their souls into Gods hands. What need he in 1life or death fear, to whom to live is Christ, and to die is gain, Phil. 1. 21. Though enemies destroy the body, yet no danger comes thereby to the soul: neither can they impeach eternal salvation. There is much comfort in breathing out our last breath in Gods work. It is a kind of Martyrdom. For a soldier to die in the field in a good cause, it is as for a Preacher to die in a pulpit. Upon the cautions before noted, this assuredly will be the issue, If a soldier get the day, or otherwise escape with his life, they that set him on work are too too ungrateful if they do not abundantly reward him. Herein if man fail, assuredly the righteous Lord will not fail. For, whatsoever good thing any man doth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free,