A01974:1809
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.
That they may not seem to be mad without reason, they give this ground, that in heaven all things are carried with an unalterable course and constancy, but on earth nothing is done according to order.
That they may not seeme to be mad without reason, they give this ground, that in heaven all things are caried with an unalterable course and constancy, but on earth nothing is done according to order.
Answ. 1. This latter assertion, that nothing is done according to order, is most false.
2. The seeming disorder of things here below, is so far from giving evidence against the divine Providence about them, as it doth rather strongly evince that Gods Providence reacheth so far. For, notwithstanding their disorder, by the divine wisdom they are brought to good ends. How could all things (being so disordered, yea so contrary one to 1another) work together for good to them that love God, were it not that they are ordered and governed by the divine Providence?
2. The seeming disorder of things here below, is so farre from giving evidence against the divine Providence about them, as it doth rather strongly evince that Gods Providence reacheth so farre. For, notwithstanding their disorder, by the divine wisdome they are brought to good ends. How could all things (being so disordered, yea so contrary one to 1another) worke together for good to them that love God, were it not that they are ordered and governed by the divine Providence?