A01974:1392
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.
3. If enemies will hearken to no conditions of peace: but obstinately stand out to the very uttermost, in such a case saith the Law, kThou shalt smite every male with the edge of the sword.
- kDeut. 20. 13. Cur irasceretur Deus adversus Chaldaeos quos ipse misit ad capiendum Israel? Respondit, illos abusos esse crudelitate suá & plus imposuisse plagarum, quam Dei ultio flagitabat. Hier. Comment. in Isa. 46. In what cases enemies may be tortured.
3. Put not those whom thou flayest to exquisite torments. God protesteth against the Syrians (Am. 1. 3.) for their cruelty, in that having overcome Gilead, they threshed the inhabitants thereof with threshing instruments of iron: and against the Ammonites, who ripped up the women with child of Gilead, Am. 1. 13.
3. Put not those whom thou flayest to exquisite torments. God protesteth against the Syrians (Am. 1. 3.) for their cruelty, in that having overcome Gilead, they threshed the inhabitants thereof with threshing instruments of iron: and against the Ammonites, who ript up the women with child of Gilead, Am. 1. 13.
Quest, May not enemies in any case be tortured?