A01974:1249
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.
1. To intermit faithful prayer while the occasion remaineth, ⟨p. 267⟩is to intermit the means whereby the blessing desired is to be obtained. It is as if (before the battle be ended) soldiers should cease to fight, or runners in a race fall down and lie still, before they be come to the goal.
1. To intermit faithfull prayer while the occasion remaineth, ⟨p. 267⟩is to intermit the means whereby the blessing desired is to be obtained. It is as if (before the battell be ended) souldiers should cease to fight, or runners in a race fall downe and lie still, before they be come to the goale.
2. By such fainting and intermitting prayer, as the weakness of flesh in man is manifested, so the power, truth, wisdom, goodness, and other divine properties are impeached. How then can it be thought but that much prejudice must needs come to such men thereby.
2. By such fainting and intermitting prayer, as the weaknesse of flesh in man is manifested, so the power, truth, wisdome, goodnesse, and other divine properties are impeached. How then can it be thought but that much prejudice must needs come to such men thereby.
The reason why mens prayers do in the issue prove fruitless, 1may hence be gathered. They faint, they fail, they intermit, they give over praying before that for which they pray be accomplished. When any judgement public or private is beginning, or is feared, as plague, famine, sword, restraint of liberty, or the like, hearty, earnest, extraordinary prayer is oft made, yea and fasting added thereto: but if God seem to tarry long before he remove that judgement, men think it in vain still to wait, (as he who said,