A01974:1796
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
THE EXTENT OF GODS PROVIDENCE: Set out in A SERMON, preached in Bla… › Section 5: §. 5. Of Chance.
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.
§. 5. Of Chance.
Such being the extent of Gods providence as hath been showed, the conclusions following may well be inferred.
Such being the extent of Gods providence as hath beene shewed, the conclusions following may well be inferred.
I. Fortune is a mere fiction. Fortune, I say, as commonly it is taken, in opposition to Gods Providence. For, afolly, error, and blindness hath brought in the name of Fortune. What fortune or chance is, to take it positively as a distinct thing that may have a being, none ever could tell. It is a mere fancy, and vain conceit, or rather a plain deceit of mans idle brain. Yet bthe Heathen have set her in the number of their goddesses, and placed her in heaven. cThey prepare a table for fortune, believing nothing to belong to God, but all things to be ordered either by the course of the stars, or by the mutability of fortune. Yea, not only the ⟨p. 380⟩