A01974:1634
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.
2. For war men use to be furnished with all kind of deadly weapons, and mortal munition, whereby soldiers are the more emboldened to all manner of outrages: much cruelty is thereby occasioned. Hence it comes to pass that men assembled in armies account all that they can come by, be it by hook or crook, right or wrong, to be as their own. So as the places through which they pass, and where they make any stay, suffer much prejudice by them. Instance the Danites that robbed Michah, (Judg. 18. 16. 17, 25.) This undoubtedly was the cause that moved John the Baptist to warn the soldiers that came to be instructed by him to take heed of doing violence, Luke 3. 14. For, the more potent men are, the more forward they are to oppress others. And as for justice, it useth to sleep when war most waketh
2. For warre men use to be furnished with all kind of deadly weapons, and mortall munition, whereby souldiers are the more emboldened to all manner of outrages: much cruelty is thereby occasioned. Hence it comes to passe that men assembled in armies account all that they can come by, be it by hooke or crooke, right or wrong, to be as their owne. So as the places thorow which they passe, and where they make any stay, suffer much prejudice by them. Instance the Danites that robbed Michah, (Iudg. 18. 16. 17, 25.) This undoubtedly was the cause that moved Iohn the Baptist to warne the souldiers that came to be instructed by him to take heed of doing violence, Luke 3. 14. For, the more potent men are, the more forward they are to oppresse others. And as for justice, it useth to sleep when war most waketh
3. To maintain war, rich treasures are oft exhausted, subjects much oppressed, many husbands taken from their wives, parents from their children, masters from their families, all sorts of men from their callings. Trades thereby do much decay, and lands are oft left untilled. Yea of those that are so pressed out to the war, many never return home again: whereby it comes to pass that many women are made widows; many children fatherless, many old, impotent parents childless, and other friends friendless, to their utter undoing.