A01974:1328
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.
2. It is such a work of charity as we our selves may stand in need of, Gal. 6. 1. A lion may stand in need of the help of a mouse to gnaw asunder the cord wherewith he is hampered. Moses a worthy one, here needs the supportance of others.
2. It is such a work of charity as we our selves may stand in need of, Gal. 6. 1. A lion may stand in need of the helpe of a mouse to gnaw asunder the cord wherewith he is hampered. Moses a worthy one, here needs the supportance of others.
3. It is such a work of charity as may raise men ready to fall, and so help them in the way that leadeth to eternal life, and bring them thither where none shall be pressed with any burden at all.
3. It is such a worke of charity as may raise men ready to fall, and so helpe them in the way that leadeth to eternall life, and bring them thither where none shalbe pressed with any burden at all.
4. Hereby as by a means we our selves may attain to that life. For, God himself is ready to ease those of all their burdens, even of those burdens that would press them down to hell, whom he observes to be forward in easing their brethren of their burdens. Thus will that of Christ be verified, Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy, Mat. 5. 7.