A01974:1650
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.
§. 87. Of the good of war notwithstanding the evils thereof.
§. 87. Of the good of warre notwithstanding the evils thereof.
Answ. 1. The lawfulness of war ariseth from the bnecessity thereof: and the necessity of war from the iniquity of men. Because ambitious and injurious men cannot otherwise be restrained then by war, or because there is no other way to punish such malefactors, it is lawful and needful after such a manner to draw out and use the sword of the Lord against them.