A01974:1245
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.
§. 46. Of the prejudice of failing in prayer.
IIII. *Intermission of faithful and fervent prayer oft proves very prejudicial. Here it was an occasion of the enemies prevailing against his Church. It endangered Peters life, (Mat. 14. 30.) for it was the cause of his sinking in the water. In this kind of fainting may be reckoned bSauls preventing the time that Samuel had appointed to come to him: which cost him his kingdom: and that wearisomeness which is taxed in the Jews that said, cwhen will the New-Moons and Sabbaths be gone? and said of the services which they performed to the Lord, dBehold what a weariness it is. Of a faint spirit which ethe Apostle opposeth to faith, he saith, Let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
IIII. *INtermission of faithfull and servent prayer oft proves very prejudiciall. Here it was an occasion of the enemies prevailing against his Church. It endangered Peters life, (