A01974:1762
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.
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, hyour father: implying thereby that he may not, that he cannot be thought to neglect those children of men, whose father he is in an especial manner.
8. To shew, that yt 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 Iesus Christ his onely begotten Sonne, in him to adopt us to be his children, and to provide for us as for his children) he useth this note of speciall relation betwixt God and man, hyour father: implying thereby that he may not, that he cannot be thought to neglect those children of men, whose father he is in an especiall manner.
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9. To amplify all very emphatically, by an interrogation he propoundeth the point, iAre not? &c. whereby he appeals to common experience, and makes even themselves to be Judges of the case: as if he should say, Enquire of any man: yea you your selves tell me if it be not so and so.