A01974:1618
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.
§. 83. Of wars desolations.
§. 83. Of warres desolations.
V. *War is a means of utter ruin. When God would have the Canaanites and other nations whose land he had given to Israel, to be rooted out, he stirs up aMoses, Joshua, and the Israelites under them to make war against them. By war was bSamaria, and cJerusalem ruined. So was the spacious and populous city of Troy. It was made as an open field. The four great Monarchs 5of the world that made many places in the world desolate, did what they did in that kind by war. Experience of all ages gives too evident proof of the truth hereof.
V. *WArre is a meanes of utter ruine. When God would have the Canaanites and other nations whose land he had given to Israel, to be rooted out, he stirres up a