A01974:1825
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.
2. All that man can do, can but ltouch the body: it cannot reach to the soul. Now, the body is but the outward part of a man, a mortal part, subject to much misery. Therefore all that man can do at the most, is but for a moment, 2 Cor. 4. 17. So as the uttermost which man can do, in comparison of the evil which reacheth to the soul, is little to be accounted of, not to be feared.
2. All that man can do, can but ltouch the body: it cannot reach to the soule. Now, the body is but the outward part of a man, a mortall part, subject to much misery. Therefore all that man can do at the most, is but for a moment, 2 Cor. 4. 17. So as the uttermost which man can do, in comparison of the evill which reacheth to the soule, is little to be accounted of, not to be feared.
3. Man can inflict nothing upon the body, which may truly and properly be called evil: or which may make it miserable. Degradation from offices, Deprivation of goods, ⟨p. 385⟩Restraint of liberty, Reproach, Disgrace, Torture, Execution of death, Denial of burial, and other external crosses like unto these, are so far from making Saints miserable, as through the divine providence they turn to their advantage.