A01974:1761
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.
7. To prove that the most casual things are ordered by Gods providence, he saith not of this little bird, it is fed, or preserved, but it gfalleth not, indefinitely. Now there are many ways whereby little birds fall to the ground. If they be killed they fall down. When they want meat they fall down. They fall down to gather straws and feathers for their nests. They oft fall down on mere casualty, flying from tree to ground, from bush to ground, and from other places to the ground, on a kind of wantonness: yet in all ⟨p. 375⟩these, or any other particulars, this falling down to the ground is ordered by the divine Providence.
7. To prove that the most casuall things are ordered by Gods providence, he saith not of this little bird, it is fed, or preserved, but it gfalleth not, indefinitely. Now there are many wayes whereby little birds fall to the ground. If they be kild they fall downe. When they want meat they fall downe. They fall downe to gather strawes and feathers for their nests. They oft fall downe on meere casualty, flying from tree to ground, from bush to ground, and from other places to the ground, on a kind of wantonnesse: yet in all ⟨p. 375⟩these, or any other particulars, this falling downe to the ground is ordered by the divine Providence.
- g[Greek or Hebrew].〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
8. To show, that that God which ordereth all the forementioned matters, is the same God, who hath so far respected man, as to give him the greatest gift that possibly he can give to any creature, and whereof any creature can be made partaker, (namely Jesus Christ his only begotten Son, in him to adopt us to be his children, and to provide for us as for his children) he useth this note of special relation betwixt God and man,