A01974:1580
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.
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 2remembrance of Amalek: which, because it was not at once done, but by degrees, time after time, he addeth this phrase, mfrom generation to generation, even till they should be utterly destroyed.
The matter or thing sworne is thus expressed, kWar shall be to the Lordwith Amalek. The sense whereof is well given in this English phrase, The Lord shall have warre with Amalek. The Lord is said to do that which by his appointment and direction his people did. The warre here mentioned was an effect of an irreconciliable enmity, and a meanes of that which was before mentioned, an utter putting out of the 2remembrance of Amalek: which, because it was not at once done, but by degrees, time after time, he addeth this phrase, mfrom generation to generation, even till they should be utterly destroyed.
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