A01974:1184
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.
§. 41. Of performing the promises which we make of praying for others.
III. *Prayer promised must be performed. When Pharaoh felt the heavy hand of God to lie upon him, he desires Moses and Aaron to pray for him. They (desirous to show how much rather they would that he should submit himself for his own and peoples preservation to the good pleasure of God, then by his fierce wrath be destroyed) make promise to pray for him, and answerably they made conscience to perform their promise: whereupon it is noted, that athey went out from Pharaoh, and cried unto the Lord. Yea, though bhe knew that when the judgement was removed, Pharaoh would again harden his heart, yet was Moses faithful in performing his promise. cSamuel having made a promise to pray for Israel, when the Philistines were assembled against them, he so cried to the Lord, as the Lord thundered with a great thunder upon the Philistines, and discomfited them. Yea, he acknowledgeth it to be da sin ⟨p. 255⟩to neglect to pray for the people.
III. *PRayer promised must be performed. When Pharaoh felt the heavy hand of God to lie upon him, he desires Moses and Aaron to pray for him. They (desirous to shew how much rather they would that he should submit himself for his owne and peoples preservation to the good pleasure of God, then by his fierce wrath be destroyed) make promise to pray for him, and answerably they made conscience to performe their promise: whereupon it is noted, that