A01974:1736
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.
By peace lands are freely tilled: orchards, gardens, vineyards, and other like fruitful places tended: all manner of cattle increased: all kind of trading followed: inheritances, and what else of right appertaineth to men, quietly possessed by the true owners thereof: children well educated: old men well nourished: Schools and Universities maintained: The Gospel with free liberty preached: all Gods ordinances observed: good laws duly executed: wrong doers suppressed: men respected according to their places and dignities: opportunity afforded for exercising such abilities as God bestoweth on any: mutual communion made of such good gifts as God in any kind conferreth on several persons: poor men set to work, and relieved: plenty ⟨p. 368⟩procured: means for sickness, and all manner of maladies, afforded: decent burial performed: and many other like benefits obtained: of all which by war men are very oft spoiled, and deprived.
By peace lands are freely tilled: orchards, gardens, vineyards, and other like fruitfull places tended: all manner of cattell encreased: all kind of trading followed: inheritances, and what els of right appertaineth to men, quietly possessed by the true owners thereof: children well educated: old men well nourished: Schooles and Vniversities maintained: The Gospell with free liberty preached: all Gods ordinances observed: good lawes duly executed: wrong doers suppressed: men respected according to their places and dignities: opportunity afforded for exercising such abilities as God bestoweth on any: mutuall communion made of such good gifts as God in any kind conferreth on severall persons: poore men set to worke, and relieved: plenty ⟨p. 368⟩procured: meanes for sicknesse, and all manner of maladies, afforded: decent buriall performed: and many other like benefits obtained: of all which by warre men are very oft spoiled, and deprived.
Peace is the main end of just and lawful war. All the benefits *