A01974:1828
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.
§. 9. Of eying God in all affairs.
§. 9. Of eying God in all affaires.
V. *GOD is to be beheld in all our affairs. If a sparrow fall not to the ground without him, what do we, what can we do without him? And if his hand be in all that we do or can do, ought we not to take notice thereof, to behold it, well to observe it, and mark whereto it tends? Doth God from heaven look down upon us on earth, and shall not we from earth life up eyes and hearts to him that is in heaven? The Psalmist indefinitely saith of all, even 2all creatures, The eyes of all look up unto thee, O Lord. And shall not the eyes of all reasonable creatures, shall not the eyes of all that are made new creatures, look up unto God? That God which in his surpassing glory is in heaven, in and by his working Providence, is on earth also; and (as he that well knew what he said, truly said) worketh hitherto, Joh. 5. 17. He that wrought six days in creating all things, 3worketh to this very day, and so will do all the days of this world, in and by his Providence. Thus those very things which we our selves seem to work, are more truly effected and perfected by Gods Providence, then by our diligence. Let us therefore enterprise nothing without him. Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; namely, unless the Lord put to his hand.
V. *GOD is to be beheld in all our affaires. If a sparrow fall not to the ground without him, what do we, what can we do without him? And if his hand be in all that we do or can do, ought we not to take notice thereof, to behold it, well to observe it, and marke whereto it tends? Doth God from heaven looke downe upon us on earth, and shall not we from earth life up eyes and hearts to him that is in heaven? The Psalmist indefinitely saith of all, even