A01974:1646
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.
1. How unsearchable are his judgements, and his ways past finding out, Rom. 11. 33.
1. How unsearchable are his judgements, and his wayes past finding out, Rom. 11. 33.
2. They who are accounted the better persons, and have the better cause, may have some secret causes in them deserving punishment, for which the Lord wisely and justly suffereth them to fall into their enemies hands: and so giveth them occasion to search out that which lieth hid, Josh. 7. 13.
2. They who are accounted the better persons, and have the better cause, may have some secret causes in them deserving punishment, for which the Lord wisely and justly suffereth them to fall into their enemies hands: and so giveth them occasion to search out that which lyeth hid, Iosh. 7. 13.
3. Though the persons which wage war, and the cause for which it is waged, be righteous, yet their manner of waging may be such as God be justly provoked thereby to give them over to their enemies, as he did the Israelites when they went about to revenge the villainy of the men of Gibeah, Judg. 20. 21. Saints may be too confident in their own might and wit. They may be zealous in punishing others sins, and yet harbour secret sins among themselves. They may enter battle without seeking the Lord aright. For these and other like reasons may the Lord suffer them to fail in their attempts.