A01974:1756
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.
2. Among creatures on earth, choice is made not of such as are Lords, or bear the divine image in their reasonable soul, but of an unreasonable creature, a bird.
2. Among creatures on earth, choice is made not of such as are Lords, or beare the divine image in their reasonable soule, but of an unreasonable creature, a bird.
3. Among unreasonable creatures, is culled out, not the greatest 1as the whale in the water, the elephant or lion on the earth, the eagle in the air, but a little bird, a sparrow.
3. Among unreasonable creatures, is culled out, not the greatest 1as the whale in the water, the elephant or lion on the earth, the eagle in the aire, but a little bird, a sparrow.
- 1Quis disposuit membra pulicis & culicis ut habeant ordinem suum, &c. Aug. Enar. in Psal. 148.
4. Among these little birds, the least is mentioned and expressed by a cdiminutive, little sparrow.
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