A01974:1268
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.
§. 48. Of the interpretation and resolution of the twelfth Verse.
EXOD. XVII. XII. But Moses hands were heavy, and they took a stone and put it under him, and he sate thereon: and Aaron and Hur staid up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side, and his hands were steady unto the going down of the sun.
EXOD. XVII. XII. But Moses hands were heavy, and they tooke a stone and put it under him, and he sate thereon: and Aaron and Hur staid up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side, and his hands were steddy unto the going downe of the sun.
The performance of Moses promise generally propounded in the tenth verse, is here more distinctly exemplified. Where first the cause of Moses letting down his hands (whereof abefore) is thus expressed, Moses hands were heavy. bWhen he spake of holding up, he used the singular number, hand: but here making mention of his heaviness, he useth the plural number, hands: whereby we are given to understand that first Moses lift up one hand, and that waxing weary, he took the rod in the other hand, and lift up that: and so continued to change from hand to hand, till both hands were weary. The weariness of Moses hands is set out by the heaviness of them. For, if a mans hand be held up long, and steadily without stirring, it will wax numb by reason of want of blood, and coldness of that blood which is. That spirit which quickeneth the members of a mans body is in the blood: blood failing, or waxing cold, the member for