A01974:1579
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.
Answ. That is an Hebrew phrase oft used, and that to set forth the distinction of persons: as where it is said, The 1Lord rained from the Lord, (Gen. 19. 24) that is, God the Son rained from God the Father. The primitive Church was so confident in this exposition of that text, as they pronounced anathema against such as took it otherwise. Among other anathemas annexed to the Nicene Creed, this is one; If any doth not take this, THE LORD rained FROM THE LORD, of the Father and the Son, but saith that the same rained from himself, let him be anathema.
Answ. That is an Hebrew phrase oft used, and that to set forth the distinction of persons: as where it is said, The 1Lord rained from the Lord, (Gen. 19. 24) that is, God the Sonne rained from God the Father. The primitive Church was so confident in this exposition of that text, as they pronounced anathema against such as tooke it otherwise. Among other anathemaes annexed to the Nicene Creed, this is one; If any doth not take this, THE LORD rained FROM THE LORD, of the Father and the Sonne, but saith that the same rained from himselfe, let him be anathema.
- 1Si quis illud, Pluit Dominus à Domino, non de Patre & Filio accipit sed cundem à scipso depluisse dicit. anathema sit. Socrat. Hist. Eccles l. 2. c. 3.
The matter or thing sworn is thus expressed, kWar shall be to the Lord with Amalek. The sense whereof is well given in this English phrase, The Lord shall have war with Amalek. The Lord is said to do that which by his appointment and direction his people did. The war here mentioned was an effect of an irreconcilable enmity, and a means of that which was before mentioned, an utter putting out of the