A01974:1811
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. Of despising mean things.
§. 7. Of despising meane things.
III. *Mean things are not to be despised. Nothing whereunto God extendeth his Providence is to be despised. But we have heard how God extendeth his Providence to the meanest things. This is true of unreasonable creatures. How much more true is, it of reasonable? which are not only governed by the divine providence, but also created after Gods image, redeemed by the blood of his Son, sanctified by his Spirit, and reserved to eternal glory in heaven. That this consequence of not despising that whereof God taketh care, is a good and just consequence, is evident by the like, thus inferred by the Apostle, Let not him 2that eateth despise him that eateth not. For, God hath received him. So as he whom God receiveth, is not to be despised.
III. *MEane things are not to be despised. Nothing whereunto God extendeth his Providence is to be despised. But we have heard how God extendeth his Providence to the meanest things. This is true of unreasonable creatures. How much more true is, it of reasonable? which are not onely governed by the divine providence, but also created after Gods image, redeemed by the bloud of his Sonne, sanctified by his Spirit, and reserved to eternall glory in heaven. That this consequence of not despising that wherof God taketh care, is a good and just consequence, is evident by the like, thus inferred by the Apostle, Let not him