A01974:1077
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.
1This rod is here, as in other places, called the rod of God, because 1. God appointed Moses to use it, Exo. 4. 20. 2. God promised that wonders should be done by it, Exo. 4. 17. 3. God wrought the miracles that were done by it: so as, it was Gods instrument, Exo. 3. 20. 4. It was a visible memorial of Gods mighty power, Exo. 17. 5, 6.
1This rod is here, as in other places, called the rod of God, because 1. God appointed Moses to use it, Exo. 4. 20. 2. God promised that wonders should be done by it, Exo. 4. 17. 3. God wrought the miracles that were done by it: so as, it was Gods instrument, Exo. 3. 20. 4. It was a visible memoriall of Gods mighty power, Exo. 17. 5, 6.
- 1Why called the rod of God Virga Dei dicitur quae primum dicta est virga Aaron, postea vero virga Moysis, sic ut dicitur spiritus Heliae qui est spiritus Dei, cujus particeps factus est Helias, &c. Aug. Quaest. super. Exo. l. 2, q. 65.
It is also asometimes called Aaron's rod, because God appointed Aaron to use it in working the first miracles that were wrought in Egypt. And it was most usually styled