A01974:1070
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.
§. 25. Of the rod which Moses used.
EXOD. XVII. IX. With the rod of God in mine hand.
Much is spoken of the rod here mentioned. But what kind of rod it was, is not agreed upon by all. *The word, according to the notation of it, signifieth a thing to lean on. The strength of bread is set out by this word, and styled athe staff of bread. That also whereupon wicked men do repose their trust and confidence, is by this very word expressed, and called bthe staff of the wicked. cA bed, whereupon a man lieth and resteth himself, is signified by a word which cometh from the same root, and hath the ⟨p. 227⟩very same letters, though not the same points: wherein the LXX being somewhat mistaken, do translate the Hebrew word that signifieth a bed, by a Greek word that signifieth a staff: which gave occasion to that seeming difference betwixt Moses and him that wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews, about Israels bowing himself