A01974:1362
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.
§. 58. Of the overthrow of such as begin war.
§. 58. Of the overthrow of such as begin warre.
III. *They that first begin war may have the worst in war. I say, may have, because there may be just cause of beginning war, and answerably God gives good success thereto: so as it cannot be generally said, that all in all cases that first begin war go by the loss. Experience of all times gives evidence against this. But yet that this may so fall out, like experience giveth demonstration. Instance aSihon, Og, bthe five Kings of the Amorites, cJabin with all that took part with him, dthe Ammonites in Jephthah's time, ethe Aramites in Ahab's time, fthe Moabites, Ammonites, and Edomites in Jehoshaphat's time, and many other of the Churches enemies at other times. Yea also the g