A01974:1659
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.
§. 89. Of delighting in war.
§. 89. Of delighting in warre.
II. NO true Christian can, or may delight in war. He may bon just cause wage war: but there is a great difference betwixt the doing of a thing, and delight therein. God doth afflict, and grieve children of men, but not cfrom his heart, willingly. Judgement is dhis strange work, his strange act. So ought war to be unto Christians. A true Christians heart is possessed with true charity. But charity delighteth not in spoils, in wounds, in pains, and tortures, in blood of men, nor in any other evils that war ordinarily causeth. They are therefore destitute of true Christian charity, and in that respect, no true Christians that simply desire war, that without just and urgent cause raise war, that with delight embroil themselves therein. They are worse then savages, yea then savage beasts. Though the Lord made many of the Heathen his rod to correct his people: yet because they delighted in shedding blood, the Lord brought heavy judgements upon them: as on Ashur, Isa. 10. 5, &c. on Babylon, Isa. 14. 4, &c. Jer. 50. 23, 24. Hab. 2. 7, 8