A01974:1256
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 cause his Church and people more narrowly and 1thoroughly to search themselves. For many evils many times are so closely conveyed and concealed, as unless God by some visible judgement force men to search it out, it may lie and fester, and so cause the greater mischief. This was the chief cause that moved God so to leave Joshua and his army, 2as they fled before the men of Ai,
1. To cause his Church and people more narrowly and 1thorowly to search themselves. For many evils many times are so closely conveighed and concealed, as unlesse God by some visible judgement force men to search it out, it may lie and fester, and so cause the greater mischiefe. This was the chiefe cause that moved God so to leave Ioshua and his army, 2as they fled before the men of Ai,
2. To punish some scandalous sin whereby the profession of godliness is slandered. This reason God himself renders 1