A01974:1637
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.
5. By war many are taken captives, whom malicious and mortal enemies (so taken) oft put to exquisite torments: as the Syrians, who threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron, Am. 1. 3. and the Edomites, who ripped up the women with child of Gilead, Am. 1. 13. and the Moabites, who burnt the bones of the King of Edom unto lime, Am. 2. 1. and Adonibezek, who having cut off the thumbs and great toes of 70 Kings, made them gather their meat under his table, Judg. 1. 7. and the Chaldees, who slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and then put out the eyes of the said King, and bound him with setters of brass, &c. 2 King. 25. 7. and the Philistines, who took Sampson, and put out his eyes, and bound him with fetters of brass, and made him grind in their prison house, Judg. 16. 21. Others taken by enemies, though they be not so tortured, yet may be made perpetual slaves.
5. By warre many are taken captives, whom malicious and mortall enemies (so taken) oft put to exquisite torments: as the Syrians, who threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron, Am. 1. 3. and the Edomites, who ript up the women with child of Gilead, Am. 1. 13. and the Moabites, who burnt the bones of the King of Edom unto lime, Am. 2. 1. and Adonibezek, who having cut off the thumbs and great toes of 70 Kings, made them gather their meate under his table, Iudg. 1. 7. and the Caldees, who slew the sonnes of Zedekiah before his eyes, and then put out the eyes of the said King, and bound him with setters of brasse, &c. 2 King. 25. 7. and the Philistines, who tooke Sampson, and put out his eyes, and bound him with fetters of brasse, and made him grind in their prison house, Iudg. 16. 21. Others taken by enemies, though they be not so tortured, yet may be made perpetuall slaves.