A01974:149
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.
Ans. I grant it to be an extraordinary disease, but not immediate. The kind of disease, and the effects thereof on mans body, do show that its no more immediate then many other diseases. If because such as are appointed to death are strucken with it, means of escaping it might not be used: no means for avoiding any judgement might be used. For the infection of it, let experience determine that case.
Ans. I grant it to be an extraordinary disease, but not immediate. The kind of disease, and the effects thereof on mans body, do shew that its no more immediate then many other diseases. If because such as are appointed to death are strucken with it, meanes of escaping it might not be used: no meanes for avoiding any judgement might be used. For the infection of it, let experience determine that case.
Ob. 2. It is a fruit of faithlessness to shun the Plague.
Ob. 2. It is a fruit of faithlesnesse to shun the Plague.
Answ. No more then to shun other dangers: Men may indeed upon distrust fly: but that shows the frailty of the person, not the unlawfulness of the action.
Answ. No more then to shun other dangers: Men may indeed upon distrust fly: but that shewes the frailty of the person, not the unlawfulnesse of the action.