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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 ³showed that he accounted the sword the most terrible judgement: and withal intimateth the reason thereof: because it is put into mans hands; so as Plague and Famine is more immediately ordered by God, then War. Men are made the instruments thereof. And their anger is fierce, and their wrath cruel. Yea, they prove many times insatiable in their ⁴cruelty: as wolves when they enter among a flock of sheep. For (as it is in the proverb) Man is a wolf to man: as cruel one to another, as a wolf to sheep: one undermining, one devouring another, as they can get any advantage one against another.

I. VVArre is the heaviest of Gods judgements. There are three publique judgement called ^aevill arrowes. Arrowes, because they are sharpe and deadly; piercing to the very heart of a man. Evill, by reason of their effects, the evils and mischiefs which they worke. In this respect saith the Lord, ^bI will heape mischiefs upon them, I will spend mine arrowes upon them. Gods arrowes are called instruments of death,