A01974:1320
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.
All external rites are ordained especially for mans help and good. If therefore they stand in opposition to it, or hinder it, they fail of their main end, and so are not of that use for which they are ordained: and thereupon give place, and have a dispensation to be omitted.
All externall rites are ordained especially for mans helpe and good. If therefore they stand in opposition to it, or hinder it, they faile of their maine end, and so are not of that use for which they are ordained: and thereupon give place, and have a dispensation to be omitted.
Ob. This is to prefer the second Table before the first, and consequently man before God.
Ob. This is to preferre the second Table before the first, and consequently man before God.
Answ. Nothing less. For, the substance of the first Table gives not place to the substance of the second. but the circumstance of the first to the substance of the second. Indeed if the substance of each Table should come in opposition, the second Table should give place. Instance Abraham's readiness ⟨p. 281⟩to sacrifice his son at Gods command. (Gen. 22. 2, &c.) For, obedience to Gods express charge is of the substance of the first Table. Saul therefore in sparing Agag, though it might seem to be a work of mercy, sinned. For, this indeed is to prefer man before God, 1 Sam. 15. 23.