A01974:1655
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.
§. 88. Of war the sorest judgement.
§. 88. Of warre the sorest judgement.
I. War is the heaviest of Gods judgements. There are three public judgement called aevil arrows. Arrows, because they are sharp and deadly; piercing to the very heart of a man. Evil, by reason of their effects, the evils and mischiefs which they work. In this respect saith the Lord, bI will heap mischiefs upon them, I will spend mine arrows upon them. Gods arrows are called instruments of death, Psal. 7. 13. The three most fearful judgements, which are most usually called Gods arrows, are Plague, Famine, Sword. The sorest of all these is the Sword. Evident is this by the answer which David gave to Gad, who from the Lord put those three to his choice. One of them must be endured: but which of them, he himself might choose. Thereupon he supplicated against the sword, in these words, Let me not fall into the hands of man. Hereby he