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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.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, RIGHT Worshipful, and other my Beloved Parishioners, Inhabitants of Black-Fryers LONDON, all Happiness. Right Honourable, Right Worshipful, Beloved,
TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE, RIGHT Worshipfull, and other my Beloved Parishioners, Inhabitants of Black-Fryers LONDON, all Happinesse. Right Honourable, Right Worshipfull, Beloved,
Behold here a Testimony of my due Respect to you. Behold here an Apology for my seeming Neglect of you. I do acknowledge that all the Respect which by a grateful Pastor may be due to a loving People, is by me due to you. In that respect, I do here athe fourth time give public testimony thereof by presenting to you in special that which is made public to all. The neglect of you, objected against me, is, my seldom preaching among you this last year. This ancient, undeniable aphorism, bA man can do no more then he can, giveth a just answer thereto. Great hath been the weakness of my body, first occasioned by a very dangerous disease in August last (how low I was brought thereby, ⟨image 5⟩many of you are witnesses) and further increased by two relapses, one in Nov. the other in Febr. following. (Of Gods goodness in my recoveries I shall have fit occasion to speak on The Saints Sacrifice, shortly to be tendered unto you.) Had I no other excuse, this 3were sufficient. Saint Chrysostom, where he granteth that by the weakness of Ministers bodies the Churches commodities may be intercepted, concludeth that Ministers in such cases are not to be blamed. But howsoever my weakness were a just impediment to preaching (whereby the spirits of a feeble man are much exhausted) yet would I not make it a pretext for wasting precious time in idleness. It was wittily and gravely said,