A01974:1568
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.
§. 77. Of ascribing the glory of deliverances to God.
IIII. *The glory of deliverances is to be ascribed to God. aThe altar which Jacob built, and the name which he gave to it implied as much as the altar which Moses here built, and the name which he gave to it. For, God having delivered him as from many other dangers, so in particular from that revenge which his brother Esau intended against him, bhe nameth the altar which he built Ell-Elohe, Israel, the God, the God of Israel. Yea cGod himself commanded Jacob for this very end to build an altar to him: which he did, and dcalled the name of the place Ell Bethel, the God of the house of God. The name which Abraham gave to the mount, where Isaac (being bound upon the altar to be sacrificed) was delivered, tended to the same end, even to testify that God was the deliverer. The name was this, eJehovah jireh, The Lord will see. So did fthis name, Beer lahai-roi, The well of him that liveth and seeth me, which Hagar gave to that well of water which the Angel showed her when she and her son was ready to perish for want of water: and that which