A01974:1474
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.
Yea, because we are all keepers one of another, it behooveth private Christians, as they have occasion to meet together, to rehearse in the ears one of another such memorable matters as may according to the subject thereof, minister matter of humiliation and supplication, or of exultation and gratulation. We have a good pattern hereof in Cleophas, and his companion.1
Yea, because we are all keepers one of another, it behooveth private Christians, as they have occasion to meet together, to rehearse in the eares one of another such memorable matters as may according to the subject thereof, minister matter of humiliation and supplication, or of exultation and gratulation. We have a good patterne hereof in Cleophas, and his companion.1
Commendable in this respect is that Act of Parliament which was made in the third year of the reign of King JAMES, for an annual grateful remembrance of our more then ordinary deliverance from the Gun. Powder-treason. It is answerable to that act which was made by Esther and Mordecai, 1for keeping the days called Purim. The annual celebrating of the fifth of November, being enjoined by Act of Parliament, Ministers and people make conscience of observing it: and thence many Ministers take occasion year after year to set out before their people the unnatural inhumanity, unsatiable cruelty, and perfidious treachery of Papists: and so bring people into an utter detestation of that more then Heathenish Idolatry. Very well did our learned King JAMES, in that speech which he made to both houses of Parliament upon the discovery of that devilish powder-treason-plot, observe, that No other sect of Heretics, not excepting Turk, Jew, nor Pagan, no, not even those of Calicut, who adore the Devil, did ever maintain by the grounds of their religion, that it was lawful, or rather meritorious (as the Romish Catholics call it) to murder princes