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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.
5. Wait and expect Gods leisure. Prescribe no time to him. iThere is an appointed time. This can not be prevented, nor shall be overslipped. To be persuaded hereof, and answerably to wait patiently and contentedly, when at first we are not heard, will much settle and strengthen faith. Hope, like a good daughter, nourisheth faith.
5. Wait and expect Gods leisure. Praescribe no time to him. iThere is an appointed time. This can not be prevented, nor shalbe overslipt. To be perswaded hereof, and answerably to wait patiently and contentedly, when at first we are not heard, will much settle and strengthen faith. Hope, like a good daughter, nourisheth faith.
- iHab. 2. 3. See The whole armour of God, on Eph. 6. 17. Treat 2. Part. 7 §. 3, 8, 9.
6. Let thy soul be so qualified when thou prayest, as thy faith be not quailed with the evil disposition of the heart. The right qualification of the soul consisteth much in the true intent, bent, and inclination thereof, when in truth it intends that which is acceptable to God, and the bent and inclination of the will is thereunto. For, howsoever our good intents, endeavours, and performances are no causes of faith, yet, as effects and signs they so quicken the spirit, as they make a man both more show forth, and better use his faith then otherwise he could. And on the contrary, *sin damps the spirit: and a purpose of sinning is to faith, as water to gun-powder. This he well understood, who said,