A01974:1514
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.
Of the title JEHOVAH.
Of the title IEHOVAH.
This title Jehovah was accounted by the Jews themselves 1to be ineffable, not meet to be uttered: because it setteth out the incomprehensible, and unutterable essence of God. They therefore though in holy Scripture they find written & printed the letters & vowels of this name Jehovah, yet pronounce it not. But where they find aJehovah expressed, they read Adonai, which is pointed with the same pricks, and also signifieth Lord. And where bJehovah is joined with Adonai, that Adonai might not be twice together pronounced, it is pointed with the pricks of Elohim, thus, Jehovih, and answerably they read it Elohim, which word signifieth the mighty God. To confirm this course of pronouncing Jehovah with other words, they allege that the blasphemy for which the Mongrel of an Egyptian Father, and Israelitish mother was stoned to death, was an open pronouncing of that ineffable name Jehovah, in the proper letters and vowels thereof. This they gather out of this phrase, cHe pronounced that name, and cursed: that is, by pronouncing that name, he cursed. What was that name? Even this ineffable name Jehovah. Yet further do the Jews proceed in their seeming high esteem of this name. For, where they compute their numbers, as the Graecians do by letters: