A01974:1150
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.
§. 37. Of going to war upon command.
§. 37. Of going to warre upon command.
II. *They who are sent by lawful authority unto lawful war, must go. What war may be counted lawful ahath been showed. Lawful authority, is the command of such as God hath set over us, especially of the supreme Governor: which command may come to us either immediately from the governor himself, or mediately by such as he sets under himself over us. For, saith the Centurion, I am a man under authority, and have soldiers under me, and I say to one, go, and he goeth; and to another, come, and he cometh, Mat. 8. 9. A proof pertinent to the point in hand. For what doth a Centurions bidding a soldier, go, imply, but a sending of him to such or such a service in war? Joshua (22. 2.) for this commends the obedience of the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the Tribe of Manasseh. Uriah so far obeyed in this case, as he lost his life, 2 Sam. 11. 16, 17. I say not this to justify Davids or Joabs command: but to demonstrate the extent of Uriahs obedience.
II. *THey who are sent by lawfull authority unto lawfull warre, must go. What warre may be counted lawfull ahath beene shewed. Lawfull authority, is the commād of such as God hath set over us, especially of the supreme Governour: which command may come to us either immediately from the governour himself, or mediately by such as he sets under himselfe over us. For, saith the Centurion, I am a man under authority, and have souldiers under me, and I say to one, go, and he goeth; and to another, come, and he commeth,