A01974:1574
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.
§. 78. Of the mind and method of the sixteenth Verse.
EXOD. XVII. XVI. For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.
EXOD. XVII. XVI. For he said, Because the Lord hath sworne that the Lord will have warre with Amalek from generation to generation.
This verse may be taken as a reason of that which went before, as the causal particle, FOR, prefixed before it by our English and sundry other Translators, showeth. The reason is taken from Gods implacable wrath against Amalek. Because God was inalterably resolved utterly to destroy Amalek, therefore was there a memorial of this first beginning to subdue them: that by this memorial succeeding ages might be encouraged to war against Amalek, as occasion should be offered, in assurance of victory. The Hebrew hath an ordinary copulative particle aAND, and he said; But that copulative is oft used for a causal conjunction. Besides, there is a proper causal conjunction in the beginning of the next clause, bBECAUSE. This must needs have reference to that which goeth before; as if he had said, A memorial of this victory is made, because the Lord is resolved to destroy Amalek.
THis verse may be taken as a reason of that which went before, as the causall particle, FOR, prefixed before it by our English and sundry other Translators, sheweth. The reason is taken from Gods implacable wrath against Amalek. Because God was inalterably resolved utterly to destroy Amalek, therefore was there a memoriall of this first beginning to subdue them: that by this memoriall succeeding ages might be encouraged to war against Amalek, as occasion should be offered, in assurance of victory. The Hebrew hath an ordinary copulative particle