A01974:1330
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.
§. 53. Of union of spirits.
V. *Union of spirits is very helpful. This is true of all things wherein men have occasion to deal together. As Counsellors of State in matters of State: Judges in matters of justice and equity: Ministers in matters of religion: Physicians in physic for mens bodies: Artisans in matters of their trades: and so others in other affairs: but especially Believers in the holy and heavenly duty of prayer. This is it which in this place is especially intended. For mutual help herein, Christians in the Primitive Church, even in the first and best times thereof, are said to continue adaily with one accord in the Temple. The Temple was the house of prayer. There therefore they prayed, and that with one accord: that is, with one spirit, one mind, and one heart. Thus it is again said, bthat they lift up their voice with one accord: their spirits were joined together, and as one spirit in that powerful prayer which they made. When many so consent together, in the Hebrew dialect they are said to be cas one man: because their minds did so consent, as if they had not been the minds of many, but the mind of one man. Daniel well knew the benefit of union of spirits in prayer, Dan. 2. 17. So